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Fuzzy Logic in Management

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Abstract

Professor Lotfi Zadeh, the founder of the fuzzy logic paradigm, has neatly summarized the main issues in sense-making in an interview more than 10 Years ago (cf [14]). In the following we will work through his main points and try to identify their implications for knowledge management and a possible use of agent technology to make knowledge management easier to handle and more effective in implementation.

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  1. IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland

    Christer Carlsson

  2. Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Mario Fedrizzi

  3. Department of Operations Research, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

    Robert Fullér

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Carlsson, C., Fedrizzi, M., Fullér, R. (2004). Knowledge Management. In: Fuzzy Logic in Management. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 66. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8977-2_6

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