Humans have a remarkable capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements or any computations. Computerized systems mincing such a human capacity are often referred to AI and computational intelligent systems. Decision support systems with such computerized systems...

Intelligent decision making requires one to contend with a number of difficult aspects. The need to satisfy multiple criteria in selecting a solution is pervasive in many real world decision problems. An additional feature that must be addressed is the uncertainty and riskiness due to our lack of complete...

Data mining is a domain difficult to cope with for various reasons. First, most of the databases are complex, large, and contain heterogeneous, imprecise, vague, uncertain, incomplete data. Furthermore, the queries may be imprecise or subjective in the case of information retrieval, the mining results...

Nowadays fuzzy modeling is dominated by data-driven constructs. The resulting granular constructs (say, fuzzy rules) are developed on a basis of numeric data. The genuine challenge arises when the available data become very limited and/or noisy so that it becomes evident that the quality of the constructed...