Ewa Orłowska Livres

Interdisciplinary spectrum of the state of the art of relational methods New and original developments in the various fields of relational methods

The book is divided into eight parts whose topics are chosen to emphasize application areas of logic, in particular those related to soft computing. Each part demonstrates possible application of logical methods to problems in the respective areas. The book presents a broad variety of fields and issues in which logic provides conceptual, technical or methodological tool. In particular, important topics in foundations of soft computing, including fuzzy logic, multiple-valued logic, theories of inconsistency and ambiguity, theory of rough sets, theories of incomplete information are studied. The book may be seen as a resource to which readers can turn for research horizons and ideas on how logical models and methods can be developed and applied. It is a source for anyone who needs broad perspective on a role of applied logic and a better understanding of logical methods and their applications. All the contributions present new and original results.

In 1982, Professor Pawlak published his seminal paper on what he called „rough sets“ - a work which opened a new direction in the development of theories of incomplete information. Today, a decade and a half later, the theory of rough sets has evolved into a far-reaching methodology for dealing with a wide variety of issues centering on incompleteness and imprecision of information - issues which playa key role in the conception and design of intelligent information systems. „Incomplete Information: Rough Set Analysis“ - or RSA for short - presents an up-to-date and highly authoritative account of the current status of the basic theory, its many extensions and wide-ranging applications. Edited by Professor Ewa Orlowska, one of the leading contributors to the theory of rough sets, RSA is a collection of nineteen well-integrated chapters authored by experts in rough set theory and related fields. A common thread that runs through these chapters ties the concept of incompleteness of information to those of indiscernibility and similarity.