This volume contains selected papers written by the founder of fuzzy set theory, Lotfi A. Zadeh. As both founder of, and contributor to, this field, his work contains many of the major ideas in fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic and fuzzy systems in their historical context.

Intended for knowledge workers in business, finance, management and socio-economic sciences based on fuzzy logic. This book serves as a guide to techniques for forecasting, decision making and evaluations in an environment involving uncertainty, vagueness,