Soft computing

• Nikola K. Kasabov, Knowlege Eng. and Discovery Reseach Institute, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

Soft Computing (SC) is a sub-area of computational intelligence, concerned with the methods, systems and applications of neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation and probability theories, and their numerous combinations, including: neuro-fuzzy systems; neuro-evolutionary systems; evolutionary fuzzy systems; probabilistic neural networks, and many more. The term was introduced by Lotfi Zadeh.

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