Consideration sets provide a standard tool for the exploration of consumer choice. It is appropriate to analyze it as a fuzzy set because not all the brands of a certain category of products or services that belong to it are considered of the same importance. In this work we propose an alternative operationalization of the aggregate fuzzy consideration set. It is based on a new approach for lin...

Eddy-Current Techniques for non–destructive testing and evaluation of conducting material are one of the most known application oriented field in electromagnetics research. According to the Italian PRIN Project (proj. 2009TCLKNF_002), the Authors, in this work, propose a novel approach based on soft computing domain to characterize defects in metallic plates in terms of depth and shape starting...

Need for incorporating expert knowledge into automated systems. In order to better understand Zadeh’s vision of going from fuzzy to computing with words, let us recall the reason why we need to use words in computations and whey fuzzy techniques were invented in the first place. These techniques come from the need for expert knowledge. In many application areas, we rely on experts: medical doct...

High successful applications of soft computing and fuzzy logic can be found in engineering disciplines. Current research is done for computational subject, e. g. computing with words, or computing with colors, which is one of the new ideas for the processing of color information. The main fact of this approach is the adequate representation of color and its linguistic description. This approach...

Linguistic variables are reviewed and some aspects of the original definition revisited, showing that they provide a first formal frame to do computing with words in a “narrow sense”. A two-levels hierarchy of languages is discussed in order to move to simple cases of computing with words in natural language, supported by linguistic variables.

In this paper we focus on the interaction between performers and machines using linguistic tools. Indeed the Computing with Words (CW) framework is well-suited to human performances when linguistically expressed. We thus address the problem of designing a library that implements such concepts in the performing arts framework. The proposal takes place in the Max/MSP software where our patches ha...

In this paper, the study of the evolution of approximation space theory and its applications is considered in the context of rough sets introduced by Zdzis law Pawlak and information granulation as well as computing with words formulated by Lotfi Zadeh. Central to this evolution is the rough-mereological approach to approximation of information granules. This approach is built on the inclusion ...

SESAR is supposed to boost the development of new operational procedures together with the supporting systems in order to modernize the pan-European air traffic management (ATM). One consequence of this development is that more and more information is presented to –and has to be processed by– air traffic control officers (ATCOs). Thus, there is a strong need for a software design concept that f...