From: earlcox@earlcoxreports.com   
      
   The fuzzy news group suffers from a unique and chronic illness – a lack of   
   context in which to discuss fuzzy logic. Threads ramble on and on and on   
   about the meaning of fuzziness, the nature of fuzzy subsets, the ways in   
   which possibility, necessity, and probability are reflected in the mechanics   
   of logical expressions BUT no one is discussing problems with the actual use   
   of fuzzy logic in real world applications. No one is asking questions like,   
      
   I am trying to represent portfolio concentration levels according to   
   investor suitability and safety constraints but how do I use elastic fuzzy   
   overlaps to…   
      
   What is the best way to defuzzify a time varying fuzzy set so that   
   seasonality is maintained in….   
      
   I have a fuzzy SQL system, is there a way to rank the compatibility index   
   numbers so that ...   
      
   I have a genetic project configuration and scheduling system. I would like   
   to use fuzzy objective functions and fuzzy constrains to….   
      
   Application base questions are fairly common on the genetic and neural   
   network news groups. They almost NEVER appear in this news group. Besides   
   someone like myself, isn’t anyone doing any real world fuzzy systems for   
   real paying customers??? The only way to really explain how fuzzy reasoning   
   works to those who are seeking to appreciate its capabilities is to give   
   them examples from our real-life projects. If no one is actually building   
   fuzzy systems, if everyone is just doing thesis work or farming out projects   
   to a cadre of grad students, then we might as well close down this news   
   group.   
      
   Come to think of it, for all intents and purposes, it is closed down.   
      
   Anyway, just a bit of frustration.   
      
   I’ll go away now.   
      
   Earl   
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   (AUTHOR:   
   "The Fuzzy Systems Handbook" (1994)   
   "Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry" (1995)   
   "Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds"   
   (1996, with Greg Paul, Paleontologist/Artist)   
   "The Fuzzy Systems Handbook, 2nd Ed." (1998)   
   "Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms   
        for Data Mining and Exploration" (2005)   
      
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