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Introduction to Fuzzy Set Theory

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This present reality is mind boggling; complexity in the planet by and large emerges from vulnerability as vagueness. Because of the element of multifaceted nature and equivocalness, the people have been looked by social, technical, and economic problems. Why at that point are PCs, which have been outlined by people all things considered, not equipped for tending to and vague issues? By what method would humans be able to reason about genuine systems, when the total depiction of a real system regularly requires more point-by-point information than a human would ever want to perceive at the same time and acclimatize with comprehension? The answer is that people have the ability to reason roughly, a capacity that PCs as of now do not have.

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Islam, S., Mandal, W.A. (2019). Introduction to Fuzzy Set Theory. In: Fuzzy Geometric Programming Techniques and Applications. Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5823-4_3

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