This book considers Soft Computing methods and their applications in the humansciences such as the social and the behavioral sciences. Soft Computingmethods in... » 

This book considers Soft Computing methods and their applications in the humansciences such as the social and the behavioral sciences. Soft Computingmethods including fuzzy systems neural networks evolutionary computing andprobabilistic reasoning are stateoftheart methods in theory formation andmodel construction. The powerful application areas of these methods in thehuman sciences are demonstrated including the replacement of statisticalmodels by simpler numerical or linguistic Soft Computing models and the use ofcomputer simulations with approximate and linguistic constituents. Dr.Niskanens work opens new vistas in application of soft computing fuzzy logicand fuzzy set theory to the human sciences. This book is likely to be viewed inretrospect as a landmark in its field Lotfi A. Zadeh Berkeley. TOCTowardsNovel Methods in the Human Sciences. Brief Introduction to Fuzzy Set Theory.Concise Logopedics for Soft Computing Models. The Approximate Truth about theDegrees of Truth. Approximate Reasoning. Quantitative Data Examination. SoftComputing Models for Complex Systems. Towards Soft Computing Applications inQualitative Research. Conclusions. «