Soft Computing: State of the Art Theory and Novel Applications

<p>From the Contents: Future Novel Directions.- Information Boom: New Trends and Expectations.- Using Alternative Contexts in Concept Hierarchies to Inspire Creativity.- Fuzzy Sets and Relations.- The Essence of Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA).- The Kendall Rank Correlation between Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets: An Extended Analysis.- Bideterminant and Generalized Kronecker-Capelli Theorem for Fuzzy Relation Equations.- The Z-Number Enigma: A Study Through An Experiment.- Rules Construction and Analysis.- On Rule Learning Methods: A Comparative Analysis of Classic and Fuzzy Approaches.- Evolutionary Fuzzy Rules for Ordinal Binary Classification with Monotonicity Constraints.- Social network analysis of co-fired fuzzy rules.- Learning and Databases.- Learning Techniques in Presence of Uncertainty.- Computing with Words Using Weighted Power Mean Aggregation Operators.- Querying Possibilistic Databases: Three Interpretations.- Fuzzy Logic.- The Theory and Applications of Generalized Complex Fuzzy Propositional Logic.- Coherent Conditional Probability, Fuzzy Inclusion and Default Rules.- Fuzzy Answer Set Programming: An Introduction.- Data Analysis and Applications.- Applied Research in the Field of Automation of Learning and Knowledge Control.- Bio-Inspired Optimization of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Controllers.- System Modeling and Forecasting with Evolving Fuzzy Algorithms.- Log-Domain Arithmetic for High-Speed Fuzzy Control on a Field-Programmable Gate Array.- Fuzzy Clustering with Prototype Extraction for Census Data Analysis.</p>