Stuart Hill holds the Foundation Chair of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning at the University of Western Sydney and is the general editor of the journal Ecopolitics. He is co-author of Ecological Pioneers: a social history of ecological thought and action. 

Martin Mulligan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning at the University of Western Sydney, where he teaches subjects related to the history of ecological ideas, environmental values, environmental education, intercultural understanding and action, and organisational change.

'Fuzzy Logic' revolutionises problem-solving

Two Australian academics have edited a new book that has the potential to dramatically change the way people look at information processing.

Vladimir Dimitrov from the University of Western Sydney and Victor Korotkich from Central Queensland University, have edited 'Fuzzy Logic: A Framework for the New Millennium' (Heidelberg and New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002).

"This perspective emerges out of the ideas of the founder of fuzzy logic, Lotfi Zadeh, to develop 'soft' tools for direct computing with human perceptions," he says.

The papers included in the book focus on the knowledge and experience of the researchers in relation both to the engineering applications of 'soft' (fuzz logic based) computing and to its social and philosophical implications at the dawn of the third millennium..

Fuzziology is the study of the sources, the nature and the dynamics of uncertainty (fuzziness) inherent in human understanding and dealing with complex systems, be they natural or artificial, real or virtual.

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For more information please contact Dr Dimitrov on 4570 1903 or email v.dimitrov@uws.edu.au