Title : 
On hardware support for interval computations and for soft computing: theorems
         
        
            Author : 
Nguyen, Hung T. ; Kreinovich, Vladik ; Nesterov, Vyacheslav ; Nakamura, Mutsumi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Math. Sci., New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
2/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents a rationale for providing hardware supported functions of more than two variables for processing incomplete knowledge and fuzzy knowledge. The result is in contrast to Kolmogorov´s (1957) theorem in the numerical (nonfuzzy) case
         
        
            Keywords : 
fuzzy set theory; mathematics computing; uncertainty handling; fuzzy data processing; fuzzy knowledge; hardware support; incomplete knowledge processing; interval computation; soft computing; Computer science; Data processing; Electric variables measurement; Elementary particles; Extraterrestrial measurements; Geophysical measurements; Geophysics computing; Hardware; Particle measurements; Temperature measurement;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on