Information processing with fuzzy logic-Piero Bonissone

Abstract

This is a review of a video on the foundations of approximate reasoning systems. The outline found in the visual materials accompanying the video refers to the lecture as fuzzy information systems (approximate reasoning systems). Almost half of the tape is devoted to probabilistic systems, but the presentation tends to justify the need for fuzzy methods in information processing, and so the title can be accepted as a final goal of the tape. The videotape and the accompanying material are intended to provide a basic introduction to the concept of knowledge-based systems in general, to introduce probabilistic and possibilistic reasoning systems, to highlight the main distinction between them, and to give the basis for compiling rule-based systems and fuzzy logic controllers. Examples are provided to illustrate the concepts and limitations of systems. The reviewer says that the tape is good for a first view of the field, or for a broad review of the concepts. It also provides a good perspective on how fuzzy techniques go into knowledge-based systems.