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Computing with Words in Information/Intelligent Systems 1

Foundations

Editors:

  1. Lotfi A. Zadeh

    1. Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) Computer Science Division and Electronics Research Laboratory Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Janusz Kacprzyk

    1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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  • These two volumes, "Foundations" and "Applications" provide the current statuts of theoretical and empirical developments in "computing with words"

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (STUDFUZZ, volume 33)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introductory Sections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Fuzzy Logic = Computing with Words

      • Lotfi A. Zadeh
      Pages 3-23

    3. Performing Approximate Reasoning with Words?

      • Didier Dubois, Laurent Foulloy, Sylvie Galichet, Henri Prade
      Pages 24-49

    5. What is Intelligent Measurement?

      • Leonid Reznik
      Pages 78-89

  3. Computing with Words: Linguistic Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Semiotics and Computational Linguistics

      • Burghard B. Rieger
      Pages 93-118

    3. Words about Uncertainty: Analogies and Contexts

      • Michael J. Smithson
      Pages 119-135

    4. Virtual Meaning: Problems of Interpretation in the Social Sciences

      • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
      Pages 136-153

  4. Computing with Words and Information Granularity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    3. Towards an Adaptive Calculus of Granules

      • Lech Polkowski, Andrzej Skowron
      Pages 201-228

    4. Semantics and Modelling of Flexible Time Indications

      • R. De Caluwe, F. Devos, P. Maesfranckx, G. De Tré, B. Van der Cruyssen
      Pages 229-256

  5. Computing with Words: Logical Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Towards Fuzzy Logic

      • Walenty Ostasiewicz
      Pages 259-296

    3. Fuzzy Negation

      • E. Ferri, A. Kandel, G. Langholz
      Pages 297-325

    5. Fuzzy Implications in Approximate Reasoning

      • E. Czogała, J. Łęski
      Pages 342-357
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These two volumes consIstmg of Foundations and Applications provide the current status of theoretical and empirical developments in "computing with words". In philosophy, the twentieth century is said to be the century of language. This is mainly due to Wittgenstein who said: "The meaning of a word is its use in the language game". "The concept game is a concept with blurred edges". In the first phrase, "the language game" implies the everyday human activity with language, and in the latter, "game" simply implies an ordinary word. Thus, Wittgenstein precisely stated that a word is fuzzy in real life. Unfortunately this idea about a word was not accepted in the conventional science. We had to wait for Zadeh's fuzzy sets theory. Remembering Wittgenstein's statement, we should consider, on the one hand, the concept of "computing with words" from a philosophical point of view. It deeply relates to the everyday use of a word in which the meaning of a word is fuzzy in its nature.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) Computer Science Division and Electronics Research Laboratory Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Lotfi A. Zadeh

  • Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computing with Words in Information/Intelligent Systems 1

  • Book Subtitle: Foundations

  • Editors: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Janusz Kacprzyk

  • Series Title: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1873-4

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1217-6Published: 16 July 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-11362-2Published: 13 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-1873-4Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1434-9922

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-0808

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 518

  • Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence, IT in Business

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