Overview
- Recent developments in Soft Computing and Statistics
- Best edited papers of the 4th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS’2008)
Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (AINSC, volume 48)
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Table of contents (51 papers)
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Front Matter
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Invited Papers
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Front Matter
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Foundations
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Front Matter
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Statistical Methods
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About this book
Probability theory has been the only well-founded theory of uncertainty for a long time. It was viewed either as a powerful tool for modelling random phenomena, or as a rational approach to the notion of degree of belief. During the last thirty years, in areas centered around decision theory, artificial intelligence and information processing, numerous approaches extending or orthogonal to the existing theory of probability and mathematical statistics have come to the front. The common feature of those attempts is to allow for softer or wider frameworks for taking into account the incompleteness or imprecision of information. Many of these approaches come down to blending interval or fuzzy interval analysis with probabilistic methods.
This book gathers contributions to the 4th International Conference on Soft methods in Probability and Statistics. Its aim is to present recent results illustrating such new trends that enlarge the statistical and uncertainty modeling traditions, towards the handling of incomplete or subjective information. It covers a broad scope ranging from philosophical and mathematical underpinnings of new uncertainty theories, with a stress on their impact in the area of statistics and data analysis, to numerical methods and applications to environmental risk analysis and mechanical engineering. A unique feature of this collection is to establish a dialogue between fuzzy random variables and imprecise probability theories.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soft Methods for Handling Variability and Imprecision
Editors: Didier Dubois, M. Asunción Lubiano, Henri Prade, María Ángeles Gil, Przemysław Grzegorzewski, Olgierd Hryniewicz
Series Title: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85027-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85026-7Published: 22 August 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85027-4Published: 01 October 2008
Series ISSN: 1867-5662
Series E-ISSN: 1867-5670
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 436
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations
Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Statistics, general, IT in Business