Foreword

Dr. Pedrycz’s latest magnum opus, Granular Computing Analysis and Design of Intelligent Systems, or IS-GrC for short, breaks new ground in many directions. IS-GrC takes an important step toward achievement of human-level machine intelligence—a principal goal of artificial intelligence (AI) since its inception. In recent years, AI has achieved important successes, but achievement of human-level machine intelligence is still a fairly distant objective. There is a reason.

Humans have many remarkable capabilities. Among them there are two that stand out in importance. First, is the capability to graduate perceptions, that is, associate degrees with perceptions. More concretely, humans can easily answer questions exemplified by: On the ...

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