Soft Computing Evaluation Logic

PART FOURAPPLICATIONS

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

—Booker T. Washington

Reduction to practice is desirable and necessary test of any theory.

—James E. Thornton

The purpose of Part Four is to show the applicability of the LSP method. LSP literature includes models for evaluation, optimization, comparison and selection of various systems: data management systems [SU82,DUJ82,SU87], web browsers [FUN00], search engines [BAI07, DUJ07b], windowed environments [BAY96, DUJ97a, DUJ97b], mainframe computers [DUJ73c, DUJ80, DUJ98b], analog computers [DUJ74d, DUJ76c], hybrid computers [DUJ76c, DUJ76d], websites [OLS99, OLS01], jobs [DUJ91], e‐commerce sites [OLS00, BUC07, BUC08], medical disability [DUJ08a], homes [DUJ13], ecological systems [ALL11, DUJ11, MES18], space management [HAT14, DRA18, MON16c], suitability maps [TRE11, DUJ08, DUJ09, TRE10, DUJ10a, DUJ11a, YOK12, ZHU14], integrated development environments for Java [DUJ03, DUJ06a], agriculture [MON15a, MON15b, MON16a, MON16b], nitrate contamination of groundwater [REB14, REB16], cybersecurity [KAC08, DAS16], and others.

Some of analyzed systems are physical systems (e.g., computers and homes) and some are conceptual systems (e.g., jobs and software systems). Each LSP project assumes specific stakeholders and needs appropriate domain expertise. Evaluation projects can vary in a wide range, but the common core of all of them is decision making. LSP method is motivated by human reasoning, and consequently, ...