Overview
- Lecture notes on computing with words
- Collection of scientific presentations hold by the fuzzy logic pioneer Lotfi A. Zadeh
- Written by a leading expert in the field
Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (STUDFUZZ, volume 277)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Computing with Words–How?
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Front Matter
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Computing with Words-How?
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Back Matter
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About this book
In essence, Computing with Words (CWW) is a system of computation in which the objects of computation are predominantly words, phrases and propositions drawn from a natural language. CWW is based on fuzzy logic. In science there is a deep-seated tradition of according much more respect to numbers than to words. In a fundamental way, CWW is a challenge to this tradition. What is not widely recognized is that, today, words are used in place of numbers in a wide variety of applications ranging from digital cameras and household appliances to fraud detection systems, biomedical instrumentation and subway trains.Â
CWW offers a unique capability—the capability to precisiate natural language. Unprecisiated (raw) natural language cannot be computed with. A key concept which underlies precisiation of meaning is that of the meaning postulate: A proposition, p, is a restriction on the values which a variable, X—a variable which is implicit in p—is allowed to take.
CWW has an important ramification for mathematics. Addition of the formalism of CWW to mathematics empowers mathematics to construct mathematical solutions of computational problems which are stated in a natural language. Traditional mathematics does not have this capability.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computing with Words
Book Subtitle: Principal Concepts and Ideas
Authors: Lotfi A. Zadeh
Series Title: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27473-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27472-5Published: 12 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43649-9Published: 09 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-27473-2Published: 11 July 2012
Series ISSN: 1434-9922
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0808
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 142
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages