International Journal of applied mathematics and computer science

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Number 3 - September 2002
Volume 12 - 2002

An architecture for making judgments using computing with words

Jerry M. Mendel

Abstract
Our thesis is that computing with words needs to account for the uncertainties associated with the meanings of words, and that these uncertainties require using type-2 fuzzy sets. Doing this leads to a proposed architecture for making judgments by means of computing with words, i.e., to a perceptual computer - the Per-C. The Per-C includes an encoder, a type-2 rulebased fuzzy logic system, and a decoder. It lets all human-computer interactions be performed using words. In this paper, a quantitative language is established for the Per-C, and many open issues about the perceptual computer are described.

Keywords
computing with words, footprint of uncertainty, perceptual computer, type-2 fuzzy logic system, judgments