The Paradoxical Success of Fuzzy Logic (1993)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Elkan93theparadoxical,
author = {Charles Elkan},
title = {The Paradoxical Success of Fuzzy Logic},
booktitle = {IEEE Expert},
year = {1993},
pages = {698--703}
}
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Abstract
Applications of fuzzy logic in heuristic control have been highly successful, but which aspects of fuzzy logic are essential to its practical usefulness? This paper shows that an apparently reasonable version of fuzzy logic collapses mathematically to two-valued logic. Moreover, there are few if any published reports of expert systems in real-world use that reason about uncertainty using fuzzy logic. It appears that the limitations of fuzzy logic have not been detrimental in control applications because current fuzzy controllers are far simpler than other knowledge-based systems. In the future, the technical limitations of fuzzy logic can be expected to become important in practice, and work on fuzzy controllers will also encounter several problems of scale already known for other knowledge-based systems. 1
