Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration

Preface

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logic of continuous phenomena that directly handles ambiguity, uncer-

tainty, and extensibility, fuzzy logic also has a strong relationship to ideas

underlying biological systems.

Organization of the Book

Part I connects the themes in the book with various types of models

and the nature of business and public policy modeling, and surveys

various approaches to heuristic, analytical, mathematical, and statisti-

cal modeling. Part I also provides a foundation in the ideas underlying

effective model building, data exploration, and data mining (or knowl-

edge discovery). In particular, this first part couples the central ideas

of intelligent knowledge discovery, rule-based expert systems, and data

exploration with concepts related to self-monitoring ...