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The Man Who Changed the Scientific World: To the Centenary of the Birth of Lotfi Zadeh

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14th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing – ICAFS-2020 (ICAFS 2020)

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The paper is dedicated to the memory of Lotfi Zadeh, the founder of fuzzy logic. His ideas and theories brought about a considerable shift of modern scientific paradigm, related to the development of «human-centric» mathematical theories with applications. Some pages of Zadeh’s extraordinary biography are discussed. The main components of his scientific contribution, including fuzzy sets and linguistic variables, fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning, possibility theory and soft computing, information granulation and computing with words, are reviewed. An attempt to trace the chronology of Zadeh’s scientific works is made.

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The work is supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the project No 20–07-00770.

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    Rafik A. Aliev

  2. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, 105005, Russia

    Valery B. Tarassov

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  1. Department of Control Systems, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Baku, Azerbaijan

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  2. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

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Aliev, R.A., Tarassov, V.B. (2021). The Man Who Changed the Scientific World: To the Centenary of the Birth of Lotfi Zadeh. In: Aliev, R.A., Kacprzyk, J., Pedrycz, W., Jamshidi, M., Babanli, M., Sadikoglu, F.M. (eds) 14th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing – ICAFS-2020 . ICAFS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1306. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64058-3_19

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