Applied Research in Fuzzy Technology

1. Future Vision of Fuzzy Engineering.- 2. Decision Support System.- 2. 1 What is a decision support system ? - A case study of a foreign exchange dealing support expert system -.- 2. 2 Condition recognition in the decision support system.- 2. 3 Fuzzy evaluation and decision making in the decision support system.- 2. 4 Foreign exchange dealing supporting expert system - FOREX-.- 2.5 Prospects for the future.- References.- 3. Intelligent Plant Operation Support.- 3. 1 Functions desired for plant operation support.- 3. 2 Operation support system and background technologies.- 3. 3 Simulation by the simplified model.- 3. 4 Summary and prospects.- References.- 4. Fuzzy Modeling and Process Control System Design.- 4. 1 Subject for process control.- 4. 2 Fuzzy modeling of processes.- 4. 3 Control system design using a fuzzy model.- 4. 4 Application examples.- 4. 5 Epilogue.- References.- 5. Inference Function for Understanding Linguistic Instructions.- 5. 1 Linguistic fuzziness and inference.- 5. 2 Understanding linguistic instructions using rule based inference.- 5. 3 Understanding of linguistic instruction through case-based reasoning.- 5. 4 Cooperation of case-based reasoning and rule-based reasoning.- References.- 6. Fuzzy Theory in an Image Understanding Retrieval System.- 6. 1 Approach to image understanding in LIFE.- 6. 2 Recognition of face features based on a recognition model.- 6. 3 Facial image retrieval system.- 6. 4 Conclusion.- References.- 7. Research into Intelligent Behavior Decision Making of Robots.- 7. 1 Ambiguities in Intelligent Robots.- 7. 2 An Autonomous Mobile Robot System with Effective Decision Processes for Ambiguous States.- 7. 3 Macro Planning Section - Intelligent Path Planning Methods Based on Ambiguous Information -.- 7. 4 Macro Sensing Part -Hierarchical Sensor Fusion System for Living Object Recognition -.- 7. 5 Macro Behavior-Decision Part - Behavior and Decisions Fuzzy Algorithm Tunedaccording to the Control Purpose -.- 7. 6 Robot System for Actual Evaluation.- 7. 7 Conclusion.- References.- 8. Fuzzy Neural Net System.- 8. 1 What is Fuzzy Neural Net?.- 8.2 Fuzzy Associative Inference and Fuzzy Knowledge Recursive Learning.- 8. 3 Intellectual Interface through Fuzzy Neural net.- 8. 4 On-Line Learning using Fuzzy Neural Networks.- 8. 5 Future Development of Fuzzy Neural Networks.- References.- 9. Fuzzy Expert System Shell - LIFE FEShell -.- 9. 1 Introduction.- 9. 2 System Configuration.- 9. 3 Fuzzy Production System: FPS.- 9. 4 Fuzzy Frame System: FFS.- 9. 5 Object Editor. OE.- 9. 6 Summary and Problems to be Solved in the Future.- References.- 10. The Fuzzy Computer.- 10. 1 What is a fuzzy computer?.- 10. 2 The architecture of a fuzzy computer prototype system.- 10. 3 The fuzzy object-oriented language.- 10. 4 The fuzzy computer prototype system.- l0. 5 Conclusions.- References.