This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. Fuzzy logic is a form of logic that extends traditional boolean logic by allowing for degrees of truth, rather than just true or false.

Fuzzy logic captures information expressed verbally and permits you to perform computations with it. Neural networks aspire to mimic human intuitive understanding of complex processes without ...

When Aristotle and his predecessors devised their theories of logic and mathematics, they came up with the so-called Law of the Excluded Middle, which states that every proposition must either be true ...

Identifying cancer cells in a medical image and altering the trajectory of airplanes at take-off and landing to reduce noise pollution are just two of the goals of new research projects based on the ...

A mathematical technique for dealing with imprecise data and problems that have many solutions rather than one. Although it is implemented in digital computers which ultimately make only yes-no ...