Fuzzy Systems Design: Social and Engineering Applications

✍ Scribed by Patrick A. Duignan (auth.), Prof. Leonid Reznik, Prof. Vladimir Dimitrov, Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk (eds.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 345
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fuzzy logic is a way of thinking that is responsive to human zeal to unveil uncertainty and deal with social paradoxes emerging from it. In this book a number of articles illustrate various social applications to fuzzy logic. The engineering part of the book contains a number of papers, devoted to the description of fuzzy engineering design methodologies. In order to share the experience gained we select papers describing not the application result only but the way how this result has been obtained, that is explaining the design procedures. The potential readership of this book includes researchers and students, workers and engineers in both areas of social and engineering studies. It can be used as a handbook and textbook also. The book includes some examples of real fuzzy engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fuzzy Leadership: Dancing with Organisational Reality....Pages 3-23
Multi-Criteria Optimization: An Important Foundation of Fuzzy System Design....Pages 24-35
A Mathematical Framework for Human Decision Making as an Integrated Part of the Whole....Pages 36-62
Fuzzy Decision Making in Design on the Basis of the Habituality Situation Application....Pages 63-72
Fuzzy Logic Applications in Computer Aided Design....Pages 73-85
Including Socioeconomic Aspects in a Fuzzy Multistage Decision Making Model of Regional Development Planning....Pages 86-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Fuzzy Logic as an Evocative Framework for Studying Social Systems....Pages 105-116
Fuzzy Logic and the Management of Social Complexity....Pages 117-131
Using Fuzzy Sets to Extend Holland’s Theory of Occupational Interests....Pages 132-152
A Model for Fuzzy Personal Construct Psychology....Pages 153-170
On the Topology of Uncertainty....Pages 171-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Fuzzy Controller Design for Different Applications: Evolution, Methods, and Practical Recommendations....Pages 185-201
Approximation of Transfer Functions by Various Fuzzy Controllers....Pages 202-224
Fuzzy Performance Indicators for the Control of Manufacturing Processes....Pages 225-248
Advanced Neuro-Fuzzy Engineering for Building Intelligent Adaptive Information Systems....Pages 249-262
Linguistic Variables in Surveys of Intentions to Purchase Energy Efficient Equipment....Pages 263-286
A Universal Approach to Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Controller Design with an Application to a Power Generator Excitation Control....Pages 287-308
Fuzzy Logic Applications in Diagnosing Mechatronic Systems....Pages 309-322
Application of Fuzzy Logic to Handoff Control in Cellular Mobile Communication Networks....Pages 323-334

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems;Social Sciences, general;Complexity;Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)