PERCEPTUAL COMPUTING; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets; 3 Encoding: From a Word to a Model -- The Codebook; 4 Decoding: From FOUs to a Recommendation; 5 Novel Weighted Averages as a CWW Engine; 6 IF-THEN Rules as a CWW Engine -- Perceptual Reasoning; 7 Assisting in Making Investment Choices -- Investment Judgment Advisor (IJA); 8 Assisting in Making Social Judgments -- Social Judgment Advisor (SJA); 9 Assisting in Hierarchical Decision Making -- Procurement Judgment Advisor (PJA)
Summary
Explains for the first time how "computing with words" can aid in making subjective judgments. Lotfi Zadeh, the father of fuzzy logic, coined the phrase "computing with words" (CWW) to describe a methodology in which the objects of computation are words and propositions drawn from a natural language. Perceptual Computing explains how to implement CWW to aid in the important area of making subjective judgments, using a methodology that leads to an interactive device--a "Perceptual Computer"--That propagates random and linguistic uncertainties into the subjective judg
