Fuzzy Expert Systems and Fuzzy Reasoning

Fuzzy sets were for a long time not accepted by the AI community. Now they have become highly evolved and their techniques are wellestablished. This book will teach the reader how to constructa fuzzy expert system to solve real-world problems. After a generaldiscussion of expert systems, the basic fuzzy math required ispresented first, requiring little more math background thanhigh-school algebra. This book will fill a void in the marketbecause although there are many books on expert systems, nonedevote more than a few pages to the notion of fuzzy sets and theirapplications in this domain. Therefore their use in this book istimely and should be well received. The book is designed as a text and has ample problems withsolutions, a solutions manual and an accompanying program on ourftp site. Coverage is accessible to practitioners and academicreaders alike.