Probabilistic Solution of Zadeh’s Test Problems

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Department or Administrative Unit

Computer Science

Publication Date

7-15-2014

Abstract

Zadeh posed several Computing with Words (CWW) test problems such as: “What is the probability that John is short?” These problems assume a given piece of information in the form of membership functions for linguistic terms including tall, short, young, middle-aged, and the probability density functions of age and height. This paper proposes a solution that interprets Zadeh’s solution for these problems as a solution in terms of probability spaces as defined in the probability theory. This paper also discusses methodological issues of relations between concepts of probability and fuzzy sets.

Comments

This article was originally published in IPMU 2014: Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

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Journal

Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems

Rights

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

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