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A New Paradigm Shift from Computation on Numbers to Computation on Words on an Example of Linguistic Database Summarization

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Future Directions for Intelligent Systems and Information Sciences

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 45))

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We present a fuzzy logic based approach to the derivation of linguistic summaries of sets of data (databases), and show that it may be viewed as an example of a new paradigm shift from computing on numbers to computing on words that has been recently strongly advocated by Zadeh. We present an implementation of linguistic database summaries for sales data of a computer retailer that clearly shows that the new approach is viable and yields a new quality by providing human consistent results.

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, U1. Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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    Nikola Kasabov

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Kacprzyk, J. (2000). A New Paradigm Shift from Computation on Numbers to Computation on Words on an Example of Linguistic Database Summarization. In: Kasabov, N. (eds) Future Directions for Intelligent Systems and Information Sciences. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 45. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1856-7_16

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