Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Subject: Re: What is "fuzzy logic"? Message-ID: Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Nntp-Posting-Host: herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL References: <1991Mar28.192533.3272@waikato.ac.nz> <13842@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 1 Apr 91 01:31:43 GMT Lines: 17 In <13842@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) writes: [...] >Fuzzy-logic is essentially conditional logic but with a well-defined >method (I don't know what it is) for applying operators (like 'and' or 'or') >to statements with multiple probabilistic dependencies. [...] When Dr. Zadeh spoke here last semester, he was asked if Fuzzy Logic provided (required) a particular combination function. He said no; you should use whatever combination function worked. Likewise it does not provide (require) any particular possibility distribution; you should use whatever works. -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign