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This work aims to clarify the relationship between verbally formulated description of a system and experimentation with its properties via a computer. The computer software technique employed here stems from the use of fuzzy sets. This technique will be explained and an example of its application will be given: linguistic exploratory (’what if’) analysis.
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Koppelaar, H. (1987). Linguistic Exploratory Analysis for Decision Support. In: Sol, H.G., Takkenberg, C.A.T., De Vries Robbé, P.F. (eds) Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Decision Support Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3805-2_8
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