Computational Intelligence

Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic 275

As we enter the new millennium, a g rowing number of concepts, paradigms, and

implementations are being fuzzified. In the words of Klir and Yuan (1995), perhaps

the most important thing being gained through this fuzzification is “a methodology

for exploiting the tolerance for imprecision.”

Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Lotfi Zadeh single-handedly conceptualized

many of the important developments in the field. Though fuzzy logic was first

greeted with skepticism, it has since become widely accepted by eng ineers and

computer scientists and is becoming common in applications in many diverse ...