Fuzzy-logic models where singletons are placed in the consequents of rules of the type if x is Ai and y is Bj then zi = si are used nowadays in many soft computing applications. In this work we introduce the concept of floating singletons where their precise location on the real axis is only known at...

Popper’s Logic of Scientific Discovery and Kuhn’s Structures of Scientific Revolutions are enormous important concepts on theories and their dynamic in 20th century history and philosophy of science. However, the works of the two have been criticized in the last half century and new views on theory nets...

This paper is, basically, a reflection on modeling, starting by asking what happens when the meaning of a predicate P is interpreted by the membership function of a fuzzy set that, labeled P, is designed with the information available to the designer on the use of the predicate in the corresponding universe...

In this paper we advance three clear-cut proposals as a contribution to the discussion on the role of Theory of Computation and Fuzziness as a bridge between Hard and Soft Sciences. We suggest that an important difference between the two great families of science lies in their subject or research having...

Infectious disease modelling is an interdisciplinary research activity that has become more prevalent over the last decade as a valuable and practical tool for public health experts. Soft computing, with its suite of techniques and strategies, which effectively handles imprecise, approximate, and vague...

Computer representation of human knowledge must be approached using the human ability to assign different meanings to information according to our perceptions, which at the same time are constructed and constitute the interpretative context in which possible meanings acquire varying degrees of validity....

We generalize precisiated natrual language by establishing a formal logic as a generalized precisiation language. In this formal logic, each proposition has a syntactic structure observed in natural language. Various syntactic structures are incorporated in the formal logic so that it precisiates not...

In this paper, it is done a reflection on the importance of popularizing Fuzzy Logic in Basic Education. Some clues for introducing few basic ideas in schools and high schools are shown. The relation between Fuzzy Logic and many different fields is also indicate.

In this paper we continue to investigate the important parameter of global warming - a heat wave - that has no unique definition and represents the constellation of different factors such as e.g., heat index (temperature + humidity), time periods of excessive heat, etc. We find typical characteristics...