This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. Fuzzy logic is a form of logic that extends traditional boolean logic by allowing for degrees of truth, rather than just true or false.

Fuzzy logic captures information expressed verbally and permits you to perform computations with it. Neural networks aspire to mimic human intuitive understanding of complex processes without ...

Identifying cancer cells in a medical image and altering the trajectory of airplanes at take-off and landing to reduce noise pollution are just two of the goals of new research projects based on the ...

One night in July, 1964, the logician Lotfi Zadeh found himself alone in his parents’ New York apartment, his dinner plans cancelled. At the time, Zadeh later wrote, he was doing “a lot of thinking ...

The author develops a new game-theoretic approach, anchored not in Boolean two-valued logic but instead in linguistic fuzzy logic. The latter is characterized by two key features. First, the truth ...