Why It Is Important to Precisiate Goals

Authors

Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Hung T. Nguyen, New Mexico State University - Main CampusFollow

Publication Date

3-2015

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-15-25

Abstract

After Zadeh and Bellman explained how to optimize a function under fuzzy constraints, there have been many successful applications of this optimization. However, in many practical situations, it turns out to be more efficient to precisiate the objective function before performing optimization. In this paper, we provide a possible explanation for this empirical fact.