TY - CHAP ID - belohlavek_fuzzy_2011 T1 - Fuzzy Logic in Computer Science A1 - Belohlavek, Radim A1 - Kruse, Rudolf A1 - Moewes, Christian ED - Blum, Edward K. ED - Aho, Alfred V. TI - Computer Science: The Hardware, Software and Heart of It Y1 - 2011 SP - 385 EP - 419 U2 - Chapter: 16 PB - Springer Science Business Media AD - New York, NYC, USA SN - 978-1-4614-1167-3 UR - http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-1-4614-1167-3 M2 - doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1168-0_16 KW - Fuzzy Control KW - fuzzy logic KW - Fuzzy Rules KW - Fuzzy Systems N2 - Many researchers and practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence (and intelligent systems in particular) want to make computers smart. Unlike computers, human beings have great capacities to deal with ill-defined concepts, e.g., natural language. Even today, one wonders whether computers will ever be able to process vague information meaningfully. Fuzzy logic is such an approach to tackle this problem. In this chapter we therefore mainly introduce basic ideas and concepts of fuzzy logic. We discuss selected applications of fuzzy logic relevant to computer science and provide a list of references for further reading. The primary audience of the chapter are computer scientists and engineers. ER -