My farewell talk to SERCAL on fuzzy logic
(http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol5/iss2/art5/ ) was met with mostly
silence; one of the questioners said something to the effect that fuzzy math
wasn't real science. So I, too, am interested in the substance of the
debate.
But to tell you the truth, I suspect that much of the audience had never
heard of fuzzy logic or fuzzy math. I wonder how many out of the 17,000+ on
Ecolog have never heard of it, how many have used it, and how many have
taken a course in fuzzy logic/math? In which ecology programs is it a
requirement? In which institutions is it taught at all?
Ecology IS fuzzy, f'crhissake--ain't it?
WT
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=70247
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51984982/MastersThesis
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-28426-5_1#page-1
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14693.html
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From: "malcolm McCallum" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 8:09 PM
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] is fuzzy logic controversial?
Hi,
Not that long ago I worked frequently in close consort with a number
of computer science and engineering faculty who used fuzzy systems
regularly in their work for answering various kinds of questions. I
also was exposed to these approaches through standard risk assessment
procedures among which fuzzy approaches are a standard step. Today, I
received some peer reviews back on a paper I submitted. Honestly, the
reviews were great as far as I will be able to improve my paper by
leaps and bounds. however, I was rather dumbfounded when one of the
reviewers suggested that fuzzy math was highly controversial. In the
mid-1990s there was some controversy, but I largely understood this
controversy was pretty much gone now that virtually every computer on
the planet uses it, and piles of fuzzy systems are used in everything
from insurance projections to examining health risks.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the "controversial nature" of
fuzzy approaches? I did a quick google scholar search for "fuzzy math
controversy" "debate fuzzy math" and the same with fuzzy logic since
1999 and found very little. A lot exists around 1995 when the big
paper came out, but beyond that it seems to be as well accepted as I
understood it to be.
I'ld love to hear what you think! :)
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Malcolm L. McCallum
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School of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri at Kansas City
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