"Predictor" wrote in message
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Ernest Christley wrote:
"Dan, did you ever get a chance to work with fuzzy logic?"


Pete Schaefer responded:
"I have. It's been a while. I'd never, ever use it on an airplane.
Maybe a washing machine controller or something like that. I'm not
saying that it can't be done, but just that it's a risky design
approach."


Predictor asked:
"Why is fuzzy logic "risky"?"


Robert Bonomi answered:
"BECAUSE it _is_ fuzzy. grin

Seriously, the nature of fuzzy logic is that it it _not_ deterministic.
Given a specific set of inputs, you cannot predict exactly what the
fuzzy logic will do for every occurrence of those inputs."


Fuzzy logic is completely deterministic. Given the same inputs, fuzzy
systems will produce exactly the same outputs.

Here are links to some reasonably good introductory material on fuzzy
logic:


http://www.austinlinks.com/Fuzzy/overview.html
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/education/a...uzzy/fuzzy.pdf
http://www.fpk.tu-berlin.de/~anderl/...uzzyintro4.pdf
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/docs/matlab/...y/fuzzy_tb.pdf
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fuzzy-logic/part1/
http://www.fuzzy-logic.com/ch3.htm


-Will Dwinnell
http://will.dwinnell.com

And you might also want to google for:
Pease "fuzzy logic"

Bob Pease is a staff scientist at National Semiconductor. His conclusions:
There is a tremendous amount of hype and outright falsehood, with very
little supporting data for the miracle applications.
It can help simplify some non-linear problems.

Tim Ward