Soft Computing: State of the Art Theory and Novel Applications

Front Matter....Pages 1-5
Information Boom: New Trends and Expectations....Pages 1-12
Using Alternative Contexts in Concept Hierarchies to Inspire Creativity....Pages 13-23
The Essence of Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)....Pages 25-37
The Kendall Rank Correlation between Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets: An Extended Analysis....Pages 39-54
Bideterminant and Generalized Kronecker-Capelli Theorem for Fuzzy Relation Equations....Pages 55-70
The Z-Number Enigma: A Study through an Experiment....Pages 71-88
On Rule Learning Methods: A Comparative Analysis of Classic and Fuzzy Approaches....Pages 89-104
Evolutionary Fuzzy Rules for Ordinal Binary Classification with Monotonicity Constraints....Pages 105-112
Social Network Analysis of Co-fired Fuzzy Rules....Pages 113-128
Learning Techniques in Presence of Uncertainty....Pages 129-143
Computing with Words Using Weighted Power Mean Aggregation Operators....Pages 145-160
Querying Possibilistic Databases: Three Interpretations....Pages 161-176
The Theory and Applications of Generalized Complex Fuzzy Propositional Logic....Pages 177-192
Coherent Conditional Probability, Fuzzy Inclusion and Default Rules....Pages 193-208
Fuzzy Answer Set Programming: An Introduction....Pages 209-222
Applied Research in the Field of Automation of Learning and Knowledge Control....Pages 223-240
Bio-inspired Optimization of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Controllers....Pages 241-254
System Modeling and Forecasting with Evolving Fuzzy Algorithms....Pages 255-268
Log-Domain Arithmetic for High-Speed Fuzzy Control on a Field-Programmable Gate Array....Pages 269-287
Fuzzy Clustering with Prototype Extraction for Census Data Analysis....Pages 289-313
Back Matter....Pages 0--1