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a set of factors that will affect the customer’s purchasing decision. The poten-
tial benefits of fuzzy logic applications for data analysis become immense as
the number of data-mining systems with fuzzy logic grows.
8.3.3 Nuanced Information Systems
Nuanced information systems deal with data with an option for a list of values
in which each value is complemented by additional information. The data type
of nuanced information can be defined as a list of pairs of (V, N ): V is a value
that can be precise or fuzzy, while N is a nuance such as very, quite, usually, etc.,
that can be associated with ...