Fuzzy sets and applications: Selected papers by L. A. Zadeh, R. Yager, S. Ovchinnokov, R. Tong, and H. Nguyen (Eds.), Wiley, New York, 1987, 684 p.

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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 106 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0884-8173
• DOI: 10.1002/int.4550030208

✦ Synopsis

Absorbing, easy to read, and compact, here is a fascinating presentation of Zadeh's principal theories of fuzziness. Culled from twenty years of writing by the founder of fuzzy logic, this is the first book which gives, in a comprehensive and systematic form, Zadeh's thinking on approximate reasoning.

As remembered by many, Zadeh started to think about graded membership in the fifties at Columbia University, but the first paper on fuzzy sets was published in 1965 in the fertile environment of Berkeley where his ideas were explored during the formulation of a class of problems in pattern classification with Bellman and Kalaba. This first paper was a careful presentation of the idea of a fuzzy set wrapped in traditional mathematical language. Algebraic opera-