1 INTRODUCTIONIt is well known that much information obtained from biological system is semi-quantitative and linguistic.Experience is a very important source of information,butit is rather subjective,for example,“if...1 INTRODUCTIONIt is well known that much information obtained from biological system is semi-quantitative and linguistic.Experience is a very important source of information,butit is rather subjective,for example,“if the dilution rate is low and growth rate is me-dium then the specific yield is medium”.It is seldom possible to treat this kind ofinformation by using conventional mathematics.Fuzzy set theory can allow effectiveuse of the semi-quantitative and linguistic information. The main application area of fuzzy set theory seems to be modeling of fuzzy rea-soning expressed in natural language,such as the example illustrated above.Zadeh展开更多
文摘1 INTRODUCTIONIt is well known that much information obtained from biological system is semi-quantitative and linguistic.Experience is a very important source of information,butit is rather subjective,for example,“if the dilution rate is low and growth rate is me-dium then the specific yield is medium”.It is seldom possible to treat this kind ofinformation by using conventional mathematics.Fuzzy set theory can allow effectiveuse of the semi-quantitative and linguistic information. The main application area of fuzzy set theory seems to be modeling of fuzzy rea-soning expressed in natural language,such as the example illustrated above.Zadeh