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Approximate reasoning is a deduction method which makes it possible to derive a conclusion on the basis of imprecisely characterized situation (quite often using linguistically specified fuzzy IF-THEN rules) and a new information that can also be imprecise. The basic scheme of approximate reasoning is the following:
where “Condition” is a linguistic description consisting of a set of fuzzy/linguistic IF-THEN rules and A′ is a possible modification of antecedent of some of the former rules. For example, “X is small” can be replaced by “X is very small.”
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Novák, V. (2018). Approximate Reasoning. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_5012
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