Abstract
Many of our everyday concepts are vague. It is next to impossible,
for example, to state necessary and sufficient conditions for
something to be a chair, or a building. This would appear to pose
a potential problem for the construction of knowledge-based
decision-support systems; notably systems for support of artefact
design. The problem arises to the extent that such systems are
inherently deterministic and rely on symbolic representations of
the vague concepts: Should the system behaviour reflect the
vagueness of the represented concepts (for example by simulating
non-determinism)? And should we try to accommodate the vagueness
of concepts in our symbolic representations of them (for example
using fuzzy logic)? In this paper I discuss the problem in a
context of design support systems, and reach a conclusion in
favour of a negative answer to these questions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Collaborative Decision-Support Systems for Design, Planning, and Execution |
| Place of Publication | San Luis Obispo |
| Publisher | CAD Research Center, Cal Poly |
| Publication date | 1998 |
| Pages | 39-46 |
| Publication status | Published - 1998 |
| Event | 10th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics - Baden-Baden, Germany Duration: 17 Aug 1998 → 21 Aug 1998 Conference number: 10 |
Conference
| Conference | 10th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics |
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| Number | 10 |
| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Baden-Baden |
| Period | 17/08/1998 → 21/08/1998 |