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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822953403321

Autore

Bojadziev George

Titolo

Fuzzy logic for business, finance, and management / / George Bojadziev, Maria Bojadziev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-12178-9

9786611121785

981-277-062-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Advances in fuzzy systems ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

BojadzievMaria

Disciplina

511.313

658.403

Soggetti

Decision making - Data processing

Business forecasting - Data processing

Fuzzy logic

System analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; List of Case Studies; 1 Fuzzy Sets; 2 Fuzzy Logic; 3 Fuzzy Averaging for Forecasting; 4 Decision Making in a Fuzzy Environment; 5 Fuzzy Logic Control for Business, Finance, and Management; 6 Applications of Fuzzy Logic Control; 7 Fuzzy Queries from Databases: Applications; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is truly an interdisciplinary book for knowledge workers in business, finance, management and socio-economic sciences based on fuzzy logic. It serves as a guide to and techniques for forecasting, decision making and evaluations in an environment involving uncertainty, vagueness, impression and subjectivity. Traditional modeling techniques, contrary to fuzzy logic, do not capture the nature of complex systems especially when humans are involved. Fuzzy logic uses human experience and judgement to facilitate plausible reasoning in order to reach a conclusion. Emphasis is on applications pres