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Probabilistic Reasoning in a Fuzzy Context

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 317))

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By adopting the interpretation of the membership of a fuzzy set in terms of coherent conditional probability, we study probabilistic reasoning under coherence when the information on the statements is vague and the probabilistic information is imprecise or incomplete.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Giulianella Coletti

  2. Department of S.B.A.I., University La Sapienza of Rome, via Scarpa 16, 00161, Roma, Italy

    Barbara Vantaggi

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    Lotfi A. Zadeh

  2. Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Ali M. Abbasov

  3. Iona College, Machine Intelligence Institute, New Rochelle, New York, USA

    Ronald R. Yager

  4. Department of Information Technology and Programming, Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Shahnaz N. Shahbazova

  5. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Marek Z. Reformat

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Coletti, G., Vantaggi, B. (2014). Probabilistic Reasoning in a Fuzzy Context. In: Zadeh, L., Abbasov, A., Yager, R., Shahbazova, S., Reformat, M. (eds) Recent Developments and New Directions in Soft Computing. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 317. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06323-2_7

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