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As Complexity Rises, Meaningful Statements Lose Precision—But Why?

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Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Constraints

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 217))

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One of the motivations for Zadeh’s development of fuzzy logic—and one of the explanations for the success of fuzzy techniques—is the empirical observation that as complexity rises, meaningful statements lose precision. In this paper, we provide a possible explanation for this empirical phenomenon.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 1623190 (A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science), and HRD-1834620 and HRD-2034030 (CAHSI Includes), and by the AT &T Fellowship in Information Technology.

It was also supported by the program of the development of the Scientific-Educational Mathematical Center of Volga Federal District No. 075-02-2020-1478, and by a grant from the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI).

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  1. Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Konviktska 20, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Svítek

  2. University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University El Paso, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA

    Olga Kosheleva & Vladik Kreinovich

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

    Martine Ceberio

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

    Vladik Kreinovich

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Svítek, M., Kosheleva, O., Kreinovich, V. (2023). As Complexity Rises, Meaningful Statements Lose Precision—But Why?. In: Ceberio, M., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Constraints. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16415-6_24

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