Modelling and Reasoning with Vague Concepts
By: Lawry, Jonathan [author.].
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BookSeries: Studies in Computational Intelligence: 12Publisher: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.Description: XXV, 246 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387302621.Subject(s): Computer science | Computers | Mathematical statistics | Artificial intelligence | Pattern recognition | Information theory | Complexity, Computational | Computer Science | Theory of Computation | Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) | Complexity | Pattern Recognition | Information and Communication, Circuits | Probability and Statistics in Computer ScienceDDC classification: 004.0151 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Vague Concepts and Fuzzy Sets -- Label Semantics -- Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Instance Label Semantics -- Information from Vague Concepts -- Learning Linguistic Models from Data -- Fusing Knowledge and Data -- Non-Additive Appropriateness Measures.
Vagueness is central to the flexibility and robustness of natural language descriptions. Vague concepts are robust to the imprecision of our perceptions, while still allowing us to convey useful, and sometimes vital, information. The study of vagueness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is therefore motivated by the desire to incorporate this robustness and flexibility into intelligent computer systems. Such a goal, however, requires a formal model of vague concepts that will allow us to quantify and manipulate the uncertainty resulting from their use as a means of passing information between autonomous agents. This volume outlines a formal representation framework for modelling and reasoning with vague concepts in Artificial Intelligence. The new calculus has many applications, especially in automated reasoning, learning, data analysis and information fusion. This book gives a rigorous introduction to label semantics theory, illustrated with many examples, and suggests clear operational interpretations of the proposed measures. It also provides a detailed description of how the theory can be applied in data analysis and information fusion based on a range of benchmark problems.
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