TY - BOOK ID - 701002 TI - Random sets and random fuzzy sets as ill-perceived random variables : an introduction for Ph.D. students and practitioners AU - Couso, Inés. AU - Dubois, Didier. AU - Sánchez, Luciano. PY - 2014 SN - 2191530X SN - 3319086111 3319086103 9783319086101 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Engineering. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Statistics. KW - Computational intelligence. KW - Computational Intelligence. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. KW - Intelligence, Computational KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Soft computing KW - Statistical analysis KW - Statistical data KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistical science KW - Mathematics KW - Econometrics KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Random sets. KW - Fuzzy sets. KW - Sets, Fuzzy KW - Fuzzy mathematics KW - Set theory KW - Geometric probabilities KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - Statistics . KW - Engineering KW - Fuzzy sets KW - Random sets UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:701002 AB - This short book provides a unified view of the history and theory of random sets and fuzzy random variables, with special emphasis on its use for representing higher-order non-statistical uncertainty about statistical experiments. The authors lay bare the existence of two streams of works using the same mathematical ground, but differing form their use of sets, according to whether they represent objects of interest naturally taking the form of sets, or imprecise knowledge about such objects. Random (fuzzy) sets can be used in many fields ranging from mathematical morphology, economics, artificial intelligence, information processing and statistics per se, especially in areas where the outcomes of random experiments cannot be observed with full precision. This book also emphasizes the link between random sets and fuzzy sets with some techniques related to the theory of imprecise probabilities. This small book is intended for graduate and doctoral students in mathematics or engineering, but also provides an introduction for other researchers interested in this area. It is written from a theoretical perspective. However, rather than offering a comprehensive formal view of random (fuzzy) sets in this context, it aims to provide a discussion of the meaning of the proposed formal constructions based on many concrete examples and exercises. This book should enable the reader to understand the usefulness of representing and reasoning with incomplete information in statistical tasks.  Each chapter ends with a list of exercises. ER -