Fuzzy Logic for Planning and Decision Making

This book starts with the basic concepts of Fuzzy Logic the membershipfunction the intersection and the union of fuzzy sets fuzzy numbers and theextension princ... » 

This book starts with the basic concepts of Fuzzy Logic the membershipfunction the intersection and the union of fuzzy sets fuzzy numbers and theextension principle underlying the algorithmic operations. Several chapters aredevoted to applications of Fuzzy Logic in Operations Research PERT planningwith uncertain activity durations MultiCriteria Decision Analysis MCDA withvague preferential statements and MultiObjective Optimization MOO withweighted degrees of satisfaction. New items are Fuzzy PERT using activitydurations with triangular membership functions Fuzzy SMART with a sensitivityanalysis based upon Fuzzy Logic the Additive and the Multiplicative AHP with asimilar feature ELECTRE using the ideas of the AHP and SMART and acomparative study of the idealpoint methods for MOO. Finally earlier studiesof colour perception illustrate the attempts to find a physiological basis forthe settheoretical and the algorithmic operations in Fuzzy Logic. The lastchapter also discusses some key issues in linguistic categorization and theprospects of Fuzzy Logic as a multidisciplinary research activity. bremAudienceem Researchers and students working in applied mathematicsoperations research management science business administration econometricsindustrial engineering information systems artificial intelligencemathematical psychology and psychophysics. «