34 results about "Soft computing" patented technology

Soft computing, as opposed to traditional computing, deals with approximate models and gives solutions to complex real-life problems. Unlike hard computing, soft computing is tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximations. In effect, the role model for soft computing is the human mind. It was conceived by Lotfi Zadeh, pioneer of a mathematical concept known as fuzzy sets which led to many new fields such as fuzzy control systems, fuzzy graph theory, fuzzy systems, and so on. Zadeh observed that people are good at 'soft' thinking while computers typically are 'hard' thinking. People use concepts like 'some', 'most', or 'very' rather than 'hard' or precise concepts of 3.5 or 102. People want a 'warm' glass of milk, not one that is 102 degrees. In general, people are good at learning, finding patterns, adapting and are rather unpredictable. In 'hard' computing, by contrast, machines need precision, determinism and measures, and although pattern recognition happens, there is a 'brittleness' if things change - it cannot easily adapt. 'Soft' computing by contrast embraces chaotic, neural models of computing that are more pliable. Because there is no known single method that lets us compute like people, soft computing involves using a combination of methods that each bring something helpful to achieve this goal. The principal constituents of Soft Computing (SC) are Fuzzy Logic (FL), Evolutionary Computation (EC), Machine Learning (ML) and Probabilistic Reasoning (PR), with the latter subsuming belief networks and parts of learning theory.