Anca L. Ralescu - Böcker

Fuzzy logic is "a recent revolutionary technology" which has brought together researchers from mathematics, engineering, computer science, cognitive and behavioral sciences, etc. The work in fuzzy technology at the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering (LIFE) has been specifically applied to engineering problems. This book reflects the results of the work that has been undertaken at LIFE with chapters treating the following topical areas: Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Plant Operations Support, Fuzzy Modeling and Process Control, System Design, Image Understanding, Behaviour Decisions for Mobile Robots, the Fuzzy Computer, and Fuzzy Neuro Systems. The book is an analysis of research which has been implemented in the areas of fuzzy engineering technology. The analysis can be used to improve these specific applications or, perhaps more importantly, to investigate more sophisticated fuzzy control applications.

This volume contains the thoroughly refereed and revised papers accepted for presentation at the IJCAI '91 Workshops on Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control, held during the International Joint Conference on AI at Sydney, Australia in August 1991. The 14 technical contributions are devoted to several theoretical and applicational aspects of fuzzy logic and fuzzy control; they are presented in sections on theoretical aspects of fuzzy reasoning and fuzzy control, fuzzy neural networks, fuzzy control applications, fuzzy logic planning, and fuzzy circuits. In addition, there is a substantial introduction by the volume editors on the latest developments in the field that brings the papers presented into line.

This thoroughly refereed and well organized collection of papers is largely based on papers originally presented at the IJCAI'95 Workshop on Fuzzy Logic in AI, held in Montreal, Canada, in August 1995. Additionally, a few papers were invited in order to round off the scope and competent coverage of relevant topics.The 20 revised full papers included are organized in sections on hybrid and novel architectures, machine learning and data mining, image processing and computer vision, and theoretical developments. Focusing on the most pressing problems of AI, the volume supports the view that fuzzy systems combined with traditional AI leads the move towards the next generation of intelligent systems.