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The perceptions and perspectives of patients and health care providers on chronic diseases management in rural South Africa: a qualitative study
Observation and mitigation of RF-plasma-induced damage to III-nitrides grown by molecular beam epitaxy
The paradoxical success of fuzzy logic
Fuzzy logic methods have been used successfully in many real-world applications, but the foundations of fuzzy logic remain under attack. Taken together, these two facts constitute a paradox. A second paradox is that almost all of the successful fuzzy logic applications are embedded controllers, while most of the theoretical papers on fuzzy methods deal with knowledge representation and reasoning. I hope to resolve these paradoxes by identifying which aspects of fuzzy logic render it useful in practice, and which aspects are inessential. My conclusions are based on a mathematical result, on a survey of literature on the use of fuzzy logic in heuristic control and in expert systems, and on practical experience in developing expert systems