Fuzzy logic for business, finance, and management / George Bojadziev, Maria Bojadziev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bojadziev, George.

Contributor:

Bojadziev, Maria.

Series:

Advances in fuzzy systems ; v. 12.

Advances in fuzzy systems ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making--Data processing.

Decision making.

Business forecasting--Data processing.

Business forecasting.

Fuzzy logic.

System analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is truly an interdisciplinary book for knowledge workers in business, finance, management and socio-economic sciences based on fuzzy logic. It serves as a guide to and techniques for forecasting, decision making and evaluations in an environment involving uncertainty, vagueness, impression and subjectivity. Traditional modeling techniques, contrary to fuzzy logic, do not capture the nature of complex systems especially when humans are involved. Fuzzy logic uses human experience and judgement to facilitate plausible reasoning in order to reach a conclusion. Emphasis is on applications pres

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; List of Case Studies; 1 Fuzzy Sets; 2 Fuzzy Logic; 3 Fuzzy Averaging for Forecasting; 4 Decision Making in a Fuzzy Environment; 5 Fuzzy Logic Control for Business, Finance, and Management; 6 Applications of Fuzzy Logic Control; 7 Fuzzy Queries from Databases: Applications; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.

ISBN:

9786611121785

9781281121783

1281121789

9789812770622

9812770623

OCLC:

310421165