Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics

Lawry, Jonathan|Miranda, Enrique|Bugarin, Alberto|Li, Shoumei|Angeles Gil, Maria|Grzegorzewski, Przemyslaw|Hryniewicz, Olgierd

ISBN 10: 3540347763 / ISBN 13: 9783540347767

Edité par Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006

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Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, Bristol UK Sept. 5.-7. 2006Recent developments in Soft Computing and StatisticsThe idea of soft computing emerged in the early. N° de réf. du vendeur 4888179

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Titre : Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics

Éditeur : Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date d'édition : 2006

Reliure : Kartoniert / Broschiert

Etat : New

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The idea of soft computing emerged in the early 1990s from the fuzzy systems c- munity, and refers to an understanding that the uncertainty, imprecision and ig- rance present in a problem should be explicitly represented and possibly even - ploited rather than either eliminated or ignored in computations. For instance, Zadeh de?ned 'Soft Computing' as follows: Soft computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that, unlike hard computing, it is tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth. In effect, the role model for soft computing is the human mind. Recently soft computing has, to some extent, become synonymous with a hybrid approach combining AI techniques including fuzzy systems, neural networks, and biologically inspired methods such as genetic algorithms. Here, however, we adopt a more straightforward de?nition consistent with the original concept. Hence, soft methods are understood as those uncertainty formalisms not part of mainstream s- tistics and probability theory which have typically been developed within the AI and decisionanalysiscommunity.Thesearemathematicallysounduncertaintymodelling methodologies which are complementary to conventional statistics and probability theory.