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Fifty Fuzzily Gone, Many More to Go

An Appreciation of Fuzziness’ Present and an Outlook on What May Come

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Fifty years of Fuzziness represents a good chance to look back on the rich history of the discipline and the scientists that were part of this history, and at the long and varied course of one of the few really innovative, disruptive ideas of the last century, including the development of its many applications. But instead we would like to take this interesting opportunity to discuss the present state of affairs, especially in relation to the application of Fuzziness to the cognitive domain. From such reflections a possible path is defined toward the evolution of Fuzziness, under the umbrella of computational intelligence, toward an all-encompassing experimental science of language, reasoning, and cognition.

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  1. DMI Università degli Studi di Palermo, via Archirafi 34, 90123, Palermo, Italy

    Marco Elio Tabacchi & Settimo Termini

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Ricerche Demopolis, Italy, Italy

    Marco Elio Tabacchi

  3. European Center for Soft Computing, Mieres, Asturias, Spain

    Settimo Termini

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Tabacchi, M., Termini, S. Fifty Fuzzily Gone, Many More to Go. Informatik Spektrum 38, 484–489 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00287-015-0933-6

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