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Virtues of Fuzziness and Randomness
The Boundaries of Data and Their Analysis


PART I: GEORGE, THE ONLINE CATALOG OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUS LIBRARIES


subject search>>>fuzzy systems

Cleland, J.G. Fuzzy Logic Control of Electric Motors and Motor Drives: Feasibility Study. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1995. (EP 1.23/6:600/R-95-175)

McNeill, Daniel and Paul Freiberger. Fuzzy Logic. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. (TJ213.M353 1993)

Terano, Toshiro, Kiyoji Asai, and Michio Sugeno. Fuzzy Systems Theory and Its Applications. Boston: Academic Press, 1992. (QA248.T4213 1992)

keyword search>>>fuzzy logic and philosophy

Haack, Susan. Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (BC51.H3 1996)

Kosko, Bart. Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic. New York: Hyperion, 1993. (BC108.K59 1993)

subject search>>>philosophy and science

Cristaudo, Wayne. The Metaphysics of Science and Freedom: From Descartes to Kant to Hegel. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 1991. (BD111.C75 1991)

Desmond, William, John Steffen, and Koen Decoster, eds. Beyond Conflict and Reduction Between Philosophy, Science, and Religion. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2001. (BL241.B49 2001)

author search>>>Descartes Rene

Descartes, Rene. Meditations on First Philosophy. John Cottingham, ed. and trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (B1853.E5C6713 1996)

title search>>>Book of Job

Bloom, Harold, ed. The Book of Job. New York: Chelsea House     Publishers, 1988. (BS1415.2 .B66 1988)


PART II: INDEXES AND DATABASES


1) LexisNexis Congressional

search subject terms>>>fuzzy math

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Fuzzy Math in the President's Education Budget. Committee Print. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2002. (CIS No. 2002-H262-25)

2) Periodical Abstracts Research II (Journals Only)

search subject terms>>>fuzzy logic

Bharath, R. "Fuzzy Logic for Beginners." Choice. 39:4 (Dec. 2001), 721.

Hood, William W. and Concepcion S. Wilson. "Solving Problems in Library and Information Science Using Fuzzy Set Theory." Library Trends. 50:3 (Winter 2002), 393-405.

search subject terms>>>fuzziness and logic

Cook, Beverly Blair. "Fuzzy Logic and Judicial Decision Making." Judicature. 85:2 (Sep/Oct 2001), 70-77.


3) Social Sciences Index

search subject terms>>>fuzzy logic

Crowther, C.S., et al. "A Measurement-theoretic Analysis of the Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception." Psychological Review. 102 (April 1995), 396-408.

"The Logic that Dares not Speak Its Name." The Economist. 331 (16 April 1994), 89-91.

Massaro D.W., et al. "The Paradigm and the Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception Are Alive and Well." Journal of Experimental Psychology. 122 (March 1993), 115-125.

4) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

search working papers>>>Chernichovsky

Chernichovsky, D., A. Bolotin, and D. de-Leeuw. "A Fuzzy Logic Approach Toward Solving the Analytic Maze of Health System Financing." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper; W8415. Boston, Mass, 2001.

5) LexisNexis Academic

search general news, major papers>>>fuzzy logic and religion

Adler, Eric. "World is a Real Fuzzy Place to 'Thinking' Author." Pittsburgh Post Gazette. (22 September 1993), 2.

Glacken, Brendan. "Fuzzy Logic Between a Rock and a Hard Place." The Irish Times. (7 January 2002), 12.

Kohn, Marek. "The Logic that Washes Whiter; Is Fuzzy Logic a Challenge to Two Thousand Years of Western Thought or Just a Way of Getting a Cleaner Shirt?" The Independent (London). (5 May 1994), 23.

6) ATLA Religion Database

search subject>>>fuzzy

Eidevall, Goran. "Fuzzy Sets and Rifts in the Clouds." Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament: SJOT. 6:1 (1992), 150-152.

Zinnbauer, Brian J. "Religion and Spirituality: Unfuzzying the Fuzzy." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 36 (Dec. 1997), 549-564.

7) Web of Science

search subject>>>fuzzy logic and philosophy

Cagnoli, B. "Fuzzy Logic in Volcanology." Episodes. 21:2 (June 1998), 94-96.

Toth, H. "Fuzziness: From Epistemic Considerations to Terminological Clarification." International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems. 5:4 (August 1997), 481-503.


PART III: ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS BY DOV CHERNICHOVSKY


Chernichovsky, D. "Pluralism, Choice, and the State in the Emerging Paradigm in Health Systems." The Milbank Quarterly. 80:1 (2002), 5-40.

Chernichovsky, D. "Private Finance, Supplementary Insurance, and Reform in Israel's Health Care System; Changing Roles of Government." Social Security (Special Edition), 5 (1998), 29-48.

Chernichovsky, D. and E. Potapchik. "Genuine Federalism in the Russian Health Care System; Changing Roles of Government." Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. 34:1 (1999),
116-144.


PART IV: INTERNET RESOURCES


National Bureau of Economic Research
< http://www.nber.org/>

Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

Association of Public Data Users
< http://www.apdu.org/>

APDU is a national network that links users, producers and disseminators of government statistical data. Members share a common concern about the collection, dissemination, preservation, and interpretation of public data.

International Fuzzy Systems Association
<http://www.abo.fi/~rfuller/ifsa.html>

The International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) is a worldwide organization dedicated to the support, development and promotion of the fundamental issues of fuzzy theory related to (a) sets, (b) logics, (c) relations, (d) natural languages, (e) concept formation, (f) linguistic modeling, (g) vagueness, (h) information granularity, etc. and their applications to (1) systems modeling, (2) system analysis, (3) diagnosis, (4) prediction and (5) control in decision support systems in management and administration of human organizations as well as electro-mechanical systems in manufacturing and process industries.

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