IS FUZZY LOGIC FOR REAL?

About the Book

It provides a brief introduction to a few basic concepts. Its value consists in addressing the interest of a reader who has special interests by providing a selection of authoritative research books and papers on diff erent fi elds, such as fuzzy mathematics, a wide range of applications, new theories in modeling uncertainty.

About the Author

Luisa Nicosia McAllister received a Doctor in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Rome, Italy in 1957. She then went to the University California at Berkeley where she specialized by studying numerical methods and computer science under the direction of professor R. De Vogelaere. Aft er moving to the east coast, she taught applied numerical analysis and real analysis for the University of Delaware extension at the Aberdeen Ballistic Laboratory; and Linear Algebra for the University of Maryland extension at the Aberdeen Ballistic Laboratory. She also taught, 1964-65, at Towson State University. Finally, moving to Bethlehem in 1965, she joined the Mathematics Department of Moravian College. She was promoted to professor in 1981, and retired for personal reasons in March 2001. She is an American citizen and is married with three adult children. She lives in Bethlehem, PA with her husband and their German shepherd, Dara. She is the author of over 20 research papers in fuzzy graphs and their applications; She served: 1 – on the board of directors of NAFIPS (short for North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society) serving as its bulletin editor from 1979 to 1993; 2 – on the executive committee of EPADEL section of the MAA; 3 – on the Lehigh Valley section of IEEE; 4 – Currently she serves as the chair of the information committee at BISC, Comp. Sci. Dept, University of CA, Berkeley; and on the advisory board of AIM. Among her many awards, she includes two Fulbright fellowships, one personal NSF grant that allowed her to study Graph Th eory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor under the direction of Professor F. Harary, and Fuzzy Logic and Expert Systems at the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Professor L.A. Zadeh.