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- From: joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Cliff Joslyn)
- Subject: Re: RFD -- where to put "fuzzy"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.051518.27956@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
- References: <ELIAS.92Nov12170212@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 05:15:18 GMT
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- Putting "fuzzy" under comp.ai is like putting "differential equations"
- under sci.engr.civil.
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- PEOPLE: fuzzy theory is ONE part of the modern GENERAL, MATHEMATICAL
- theory of INFORMATION (other parts are evidence theory, possibility
- theory, etc.). The idea that fuzzy theory has anything to do with
- human thinking is rarely even well articulated, let alone justified.
- It's use in knowledge-based control engineering probably barely
- qualifies it as a valid AI technique.
-
- To be technically accurate, it should be sci.math.information.fuzzy,
- which is cumbersome, and requires the creation of sci.math.information
- (for the MOST general case). sci.math.fuzzy is acceptible, so is
- sci.fuzzy.
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- Neither comp.fuzzy nor sci.engr.fuzzy are an especially good idea (who
- would put CLASSICAL information theory under comp or engr?), but I
- guess I could live with them. But comp.ai.fuzzy is just silly.
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- | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large, 327 Spring St #2 Portland ME 04102 USA
- | Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- | cjoslyn@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
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