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Fuzzy Logic: A Practical Approach

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If you're interested in an overview of the subject of fuzzy logic this book may be adequate for your need. It is primarily a manual on how to use the shareware version of the software which is provided. I found this book inadequate in explaining the theory behind fuzzy logic

Not a bad intro to Fuzzy if you know nothing about it and the few real world examples showed me that Fuzzy Logic can be used successfully. But the work the authors have you do with the shareware is too difficult to follow. The results often didn't match up to the book's section and i was left confused. This book is very light in fuzzy theory and left me without knowing how to use fuzzy logic in the real world.

I enjoyed the approach here. The author uses simple, rather concrete examples that allow one to see how fuzzy logic systems work. With the shareware given here it also shows that such systems don't take a lot to construct or work with. As one reviewer says the book doesn't have much on the mathematical theory behind fuzzy logic systems, but the author meants such as a practical approach. And the mathematical theory definitely works as much too much to explain in a work like this. Additionally, the main advantage of using fuzzy systems works as that you don't have to use so much math and bury everything in equations and cryptic symbols. This sort of example makes it easier to see this and work with it.
The knowledge builder shows some ideas as to how one can generate if-then rules in a simple fashion. The decision maker makes the program practically. And the fuzzy cognitive map shows you how fuzzy logic systems can apply to scientific modeling easily.