Preface.
Foreword.
Biographies.
Part One Fundamentals and Methodology of Granular Computing
Based on Interval Analysis, Fuzzy Sets and Rough Sets.
1 Interval Computation as an Important Part of Granular
Computing: An Introduction (Vladik Kreinovich).
2 Stochastic Arithmetic as a Model of Granular Computing
(Ren© Alt and Jean Vignes).
3 Fundamentals of Interval Analysis and Linkages to Fuzzy Set
Theory (Weldon A. Lodwick).
4 Interval Methods for Non-Linear Equation Solving
Applications (Courtney Ryan Gwaltney, Youdong Lin, Luke
David Simoni, and Mark Allen Stadtherr).
5 Fuzzy Sets as a User-Centric Processing Framework of
Granular Computing (Witold Pedrycz).
6 Measurement and Elicitation of Membership Functions
(Taner Bilgi§ and Ä°.
Burhan T¼rkÅ?en).
7 Fuzzy Clustering as a Data-Driven Development Environment
for Information Granules (Paulo Fazendeiro and
Jos© Valente de Oliveira).
8 Encoding and Decoding of Fuzzy Granules (Shounak
Roychowdhury).
9 Systems of Information Granules (Frank Hoeppner and
Frank Klawann).
10 Logical Connectives for Granular Computing (Erich
Peter Klement, Radko Mesiar, Andrea
Mesiarov¡-Zem¡nkov¡ and Susanne
Saminger-Platz).
11 Calculi of Information Granules. Fuzzy Relational
Equations (Siegfried Gottwald).
12 Fuzzy Numbers and Fuzzy Arithmetic (Luciano
Stefanini, Laerte Sorini, and Maria Letizia Guerra).
13 Rough-Granular Computing (Andrzej Skowron and James
F. Peters).
14 Wisdom Granular Computing (Andrzej Jankowski and
Andrzej Skowron).
15 Granular Computing for Reasoning about Ordered Data: The
Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach (Salvatore Greco,
Benedetto Matarazzo, and Roman SlowiÅ?ski).
16 A Unified Approach to Granulation of Knowledge and
Granular Computing Based on Rough Mereology: A Survey
(Lech Polkowski).
17 A Unified Framework of Granular Computing (Yiyu
Yao).
18 Quotient Spaces and Granular Computing (Ling Zhang
and Bo Zhang).
19 Rough Sets and Granular Computing: Toward Rough-Granular
Computing (Andrzej Skowron and Jaroslaw Stepaniuk).
20 Construction of Rough Information Granules (Anna
GomoliÅ?ska).
21 Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Rough Sets and Granular
Computing (Piotr Synak).
Part Two Hybrid Methods and Models of Granular
Computing.
22 A Survey of Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets (Humberto
Bustince, Javier Montero, Miguel Pagola, Edurne Barrenechea, and
Daniel Gomez).
23 Measurement Theory and Uncertainty in Measurements:
Application of Interval Analysis and Fuzzy Sets Methods
(Leon Reznik).
24 Fuzzy Rough Sets: From Theory into Practice (Chris
Cornelis, Martine De Cock, and Anna Maria Radzikowska).
25 On Type 2 Fuzzy Sets as Granular Models for Words
(Jerry M. Mendel).
26 Design of Intelligent Systems with Interval Type-2 Fuzzy
Logic (Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin).
27 Theoretical Aspects of Shadowed Sets (Gianpiero
Cattaneo and Davide Ciucci).
28 Fuzzy Representations of Spatial Relations for Spatial
Reasoning (Isabelle Bloch).
29 Roughâ??Neural Methodologies in Granular
Computing (Sushmita Mitra and Mohua Banerjee).
30 Approximation and Perception in Ethology-Based
Reinforcement Learning (James F. Peters).
31 Fuzzy Linear Programming (Jaroslav
Ramk).
32 A Fuzzy Regression Approach to Acquisition of Linguistic
Rules (Junzo Watada and Witold Pedrycz).
33 Fuzzy Associative Memories and Their Relationship to
Mathematical Morphology (Peter Sussner and Marcos Eduardo
Valle).
34 Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (E.I. Papageorgiou and C.D.
Stylios).
Part Three Applications and Case Studies.
35 Rough Sets and Granular Computing in Behavioral Pattern
Identification and Planning (Jan G. Bazan).
36 Rough Sets and Granular Computing in Hierarchical
Learning (Sinh Hoa Nguyen and Hung Son Nguyen).
37 Outlier and Exception Analysis in Rough Sets and Granular
Computing (Tuan Trung Nyuyen).
38 Information Access and Retrieval (Gloria Bordogna,
Donald H. Kraft, and Gabriella Pasi).
39 Granular Computing in Medical Informatics (Giovanni
Bortolan).
40 Eigen Fuzzy Sets and Image Information Retrieval
(Ferdinando Di Martino, Salvatore Sessa, and Hajime
Nobuhara).
41 Rough Sets and Granular Computing in Dealing with Missing
Attribute Values (Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse).
42 Granular Computing in Machine Learning and Data Mining
(Eyke Huellermeier).
43 On Group Decision Making, Consensus Reaching, Voting, and
Voting Paradoxes under Fuzzy Preferences and a Fuzzy Majority: A
Survey and a Granulation Perspective (Janusz Kacprzyk,
Slawomir. Zadrożny, Mario Fedrizzi and Hannu
Nurmi).
44 FuzzJADE: A Framework for Agent-Based FLCs
(Vincenzo Loia and Mario Veniero).
45 Granular Models for Time-Series Forecasting (Marina
Hirota Magalhães, Rosangela Ballini, and Fernando
Gomide).
46 Rough Clustering (Pawan Lingras, S. Asharaf, and
Cory Butz).
47 Rough Document Clustering and The Internet (Hung
Son Nguyen and Tu Bao Ho).
48 Rough and Granular Case-Based Reasoning (Simon C.K.
Shiu, Sankar K. Pal, and Yan Li).
49 Granulation in Analogy-Based Classification
(Arkadiusz Wojna).
50 Approximation Spaces in Conflict Analysis: A Rough Set
Framework (Sheela Ramanna).
51 Intervals in Finance and Economics: Bridge between Words
and Numbers, Language of Strategy (Manuel Tarrazo).
52 Granular Computing Methods in Bioinformatics
(JulioJ. Vald©s).
Index.
