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Multi-Criteria Optimization - An Important Foundation Of Fuzzy System Design, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich
Multi-Criteria Optimization - An Important Foundation Of Fuzzy System Design, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich
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In many real-life design situations, there are several different criteria that we want to optimize, and these criteria are often in conflict with each other. Traditionally, such multi-criteria optimization situations are handled in an ad hoc manner, when different conflicting criteria are artificially combined into a single combination objective that is then optimized. The use of unnatural ad hoc tools is clearly not the best way of describing a very natural aspect of human reasoning. Fuzzy logic describes a much more natural way of handling multi-criterion optimization problems: when we cannot maximize each of the original conflicting criteria 100%, we …