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Foundations of works, Fuzzy Systems, and
Knowledge Engineering
Nikola K. Kasabov
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
Page iv
Second printing, 1998
© 1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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This book was set in Times Roman by Asco Trade Typesetting Ltd., Hong Kong and was printed and
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kasabov, Nikola K.
Foundations of works, fuzzy systems, and knowledge
engineering/ Nikola K. Kasabov.
p. cm.
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-11212-4 (hc: alk. paper)
1. Expert systems (Computer science) 2. works (Computer
science) 3. Fuzzy systems. 4. Artificial intelligence. I. Title.
1996
—dc20 95-50054
CIP
Page v
To my mother and the memory of my father,
and to my family, Diana, Kapka, and Assia
Page vii
Contents
Foreword by Shun-ichi Amari xi
Preface xiii
1 The Faculty of Knowledge Engineering and Problem Solving 1
Introduction to AI paradigms 1
Heuristic problem solving; ic algorithms 3
Why expert systems, fuzzy systems, works, and hybrid systems 14
for knowledge engineering and problem solving?
Generic and specific AI problems: Pattern recognition and classification 19
Speech and language processing 28
Prediction 42
Planning, monitoring, diagnosis, and control 49
Optimization, decision making, and games playing 57
A general approach to knowledge engineering 65
Problems and exercises 68
Conclusion 72
Suggested reading 73
2 Knowledge Engineering and Symbolic Artificial Intelligence 75
Data, information, and knowledge: M