Uncertain Data Analysis: Fuzzy Vector Algorithms

This book studies different classification, detection, and decision fusion algorithms, and it helps practitioners deal with uncertainty in their data sets.Data uncertainties are considered as a collection of linguistic/fuzzy values or a vector of fuzzy numbers, and fuzzy algorithms are used to analyze these data sets.There are many theories and applications developed based on fuzzy set theory. The topics of classification and prediction using fuzzy algorithms are introduced in the chapters on K-nearest prototype, clustering, and neural networks.The linguistic/fuzzy algorithm is designed to work with linguistic data represented by fuzzy vectors.The linguistic K-nearest prototypes algorithm is particularly useful in fields where data is inherently imprecise or fuzzy, such as in management questionnaire analysis, where responses may not be strictly quantitative.The reader also learns about clustering algorithms, such as linguistic hard C-means and linguistic fuzzy C-means, for hard and fu