Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Francisco Zapata Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 236 ISBN: 9783659471650
Описание
One of the main objectives of science and engineering is to help people select the most beneficial decisions. To make these decisions, we must know people's preferences, and we must have information about different possible consequences of the decisions. Since information is never absolutely accurate and precise, we must also have information about the degree of certainty of every piece of information. All these types of information naturally lead to partial orders: for preferences, a b means that b is preferable to a. This relation is used in decision theory. For events, a b means that a can influence b. This causality relation is one of the fundamental notions of physics, especially of physics of space-time. For uncertain statements, a b means that a is less certain than b. This relation is used in logics describing uncertainty, such as fuzzy logic. This research has revealed that some ideas are common in all three applications of partial orders. In this book, we analyze...
