DocumentCode
3192359
Title
Much ado about nothing: Fuzzy infinities and infinitesimals
Author
Whalen, Thomas ; Cohen, Murray
Author_Institution
Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Found., Atlanta, GA, USA
fYear
2012
fDate
6-8 Aug. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
A method of fuzzy ordinal decision analysis is presented in which some outcomes are infinitely bad and some nonzero links are infinitesimally small: not well measurably different from zero. The method is illustrated in the context of community acceptance of a high containment biological research laboratory.
Keywords
biology; decision theory; fuzzy set theory; community acceptance; containment biological research laboratory; fuzzy infinitesimals; fuzzy infinities; fuzzy ordinal decision analysis; nonzero link; Communities; Context; Decision making; Laboratories; Pathogens; Safety; Uncertainty; fuzzy decision analysis; infinite; infinitesimal; ordinal;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American
Conference_Location
Berkeley, CA
ISSN
pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-2336-9
Electronic_ISBN
pending
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NAFIPS.2012.6291015
Filename
6291015
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