Unit-1 Computing:: Zadeh Published His First Paper On Soft Data Analysis "What Is Soft
Unit-1 Computing:: Zadeh Published His First Paper On Soft Data Analysis "What Is Soft
Unit-1 Computing:: Zadeh Published His First Paper On Soft Data Analysis "What Is Soft
Computing:
Computing is the process of using computer technology to complete a given goal-
oriented task. Computing may encompass the design and development of software and
hardware systems for a broad range of purposes - often structuring, processing and
managing any kind of information - to aid in the pursuit of scientific studies, making
intelligent systems, and creating and using different media for entertainment and
communication.
What is Soft Computing?
• The idea of soft computing was initiated in 1981 when Lotfi A.
Zadeh published his first paper on soft data analysis “What is Soft
Computing”, Soft Computing. Springer-Verlag Germany/USA
1997.]
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Definitions of Soft Computing (SC)
Lotfi A. Zadeh, 1992 : “Soft Computing is an emerging approach to
computing which parallel the remarkable ability of the human mind to
reason and learn in a environment of uncertainty and imprecision”.
Imprecision : here the model features (quantities) are not the same
as that of the real ones, but close to them.
The four fields that constitute Soft Computing (SC) are : Fuzzy
Computing (FC), Evolutionary Computing (EC), Neural computing
(NC), and Probabilistic Computing (PC), with the latter subsuming
belief networks, chaos theory and parts of learning theory.