What is granular computing (GrC) ? It is a shiftingparadigm. Let us start with a few words about how the term was coined. In the academic year 1996–97, when Lin (this section editor) took hissabbatical leave at UC‐Berkeley, Zadeh suggested granular mathematics (GrM) as hisresearch area. To limit the scope, Lin proposed the term granular computing [14]. What was GrC at that time? Zadeh had outlined it in his 1997 seminal paper [15]. Lin took an incremental approach : he mapped hisneighborhood system [5] to Zadeh's intuitive definition [12] and used it as his First GrC model [8,9,10]. It may be important to point out that the concept of neighborhoodsystems, which was motivated from approximate retrieval in databases [7], is a generalization ofthe topological neighborhood system that formalizes the ancient intuition of infinitesimal granules .
Much progress has been achieved since then. This section has been organized to represent this progress and to reflect the current state of GrC....
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Lin, T. (2009). Granular Computing, Introduction to. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_253
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