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From: PLai@cup.portal.com (Patrick L Faith)
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Subject: Re: Fuzzy Logic, Anyone?
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Date: 7 Oct 90 20:59:30 GMT
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Loren asked if any one uses fuzy logic for expert systems:

Well I think there is a big difference between off the shelf expert systems
and custom ones.  Also seems to me that the logic/words people use in
school tend to blend together when you get programmers actually coding the
stuff.  I start off with an understanding of fuzzy systems but end up with
a bunch of tricks which to make things work.  Using networks where the nodes
are scored seems to be fairly standard to me, so I guess a lot of people use
fuzy logic without calling it fuzzy logic.  Of course I write ai engines
using C and FORTRAN that operate upon data files, are time critical, and
can't mess up - while I think most people working on AI are using some one
elses engine/prolog etc ... and don't have option of mixing and matching
differing AI approaches depending on the problem.

                                  PLai