Fuzzy Classifier Design (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing): 49

by LudmilaI.Kuncheva (Author)

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  Fuzzy sets were first proposed by Lotfi Zadeh in his seminal paper [366] in 1965, and ever since have been a center of many discussions, fervently admired and condemned. Both proponents and opponents consider the argu- ments pointless because none of them would step back from their territory. And stiH, discussions burst out from a single sparkle like a conference pa- per or a message on some fuzzy-mail newsgroup. Here is an excerpt from an e-mail messagepostedin1993tofuzzy-mail@vexpert. dbai. twvien. ac. at. by somebody who signed Dave . , ...Why then the logic in fuzzy logic ? I don't think anyone has successfully used fuzzy sets for logical inference, nor do I think anyone wiH. In my admittedly neophyte opinion, fuzzy logic is a misnomer, an oxymoron. (1 would be delighted to be proven wrong on that. ) ...I carne to the fuzzy literature with an open mind (and open wal- let), high hopes and keen interest. I am very much disiHusioned with fuzzy per se, but I did happen across some extremely interesting things along the way. Dave, thanks for the nice quote! Enthusiastic on the surface, are not many of us suspicious deep down? In some books and journals the word fuzzy is religiously avoided: fuzzy set theory is viewed as a second-hand cheap trick whose aim is nothing else but to devalue good classical theories and open up the way to lazy ignorants and newcomers.