This book has a rather strange history. It began in spring 1989, thirteen years after our Systems Science Department at SUNY-Binghamton was established, when I was asked by a group of students in our
The classical view of concepts in psychology was challenged in the 1970s whenexperimental evidence showed that concept categories are graded and thus cannot be representedadequately by classical sets.
Engineers and scientists often need to solve complex problems with incomplete information resources, necessitating a proper treatment of uncertainty and a reliance on expert opinions. Uncertainty Mode
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