On the Abstraction of Conventional Dynamic Systems：from Numerical Analysis to Linguistic Analysis.pdfVIP

Information Sciences 171 (2 5) 233–259 /locate/ins On the abstraction of conventional dynamic systems: from numerical analysis to linguistic analysis Fei-Yue Wang * The Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China Program for Advanced Research in Complex Systems (PARCS), Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Received 5 September 2 3; received in revised form 19 April 2 4; accepted 23 April 2 4 Abstract Linguistic dynamic systems (LDS) are dynamic processes involving mainly com- puting with words instead of numbers for modeling and analysis of complex systems and human–machine interfaces. The goal of studying LDS is to establish a methodology of design, modeling, and analysis of complex decision-making processes bridging the machine world in numbers and the human world in words. Specifically in this paper, conventional dynamic systems are converted to different types of LDS for the purpose of verification and comparison. The evolving laws of a type-I LDS are constructed by applying the fuzzy extension principle to those of its conventional counterpart with linguistic states. The evolution of type-I LDS represents the dynamics of state uncer- tainty derived from the corresponding conventional dynamic process. In addition to linguistic states, the evolving laws of type-II LDS are modeled by a finite number of linguistic decision rules. Analysis of fixed points is conducted based on point-to-fuzzy- set mappings and linguistic controllers are designed for goals specified in words for type- II LDS.