Why Polynomial Formulas in Soft Computing, Decision Making, etc.?

Authors

Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Martine Ceberio, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

4-2010

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-09-29b

Published in Proceedings of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010, pp. 3310-3314.

Abstract

We show that in many application areas including soft constraints reasonable requirements of scale-invariance lead to polynomial formulas for combining degrees (of certainty, of preference, etc.)