Title :
Fuzzy semantics in collaborative processes
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Missouri Univ., Columbia, MO, USA
Abstract :
The paper reports on the reasoning of fuzzy semantics in collaborative processes, including groupware, workflow and CSCW software tools, as a fuzzy label relaxation process. A prototype Web based system is being implemented. In label relaxation, not only will new evidence update the fuzzy measures of a collection of propositions, but also the constraint satisfaction among those propositions in distributed cognitive maps will revise the measures. This mechanism is somewhat similar to human group behavior, which is an evolutive process converging to the most satisfactory result
Keywords :
fuzzy set theory; fuzzy systems; groupware; inference mechanisms; office automation; uncertainty handling; CSCW software tools; collaborative processes; constraint satisfaction; distributed cognitive maps; evolutive process; fuzzy label relaxation process; fuzzy measures; fuzzy semantics; groupware; human group behavior; most satisfactory result; propositions; prototype Web based system; reasoning; workflow; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Fuzzy cognitive maps; Fuzzy reasoning; Humans; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS, 1998 Conference of the North American
Conference_Location :
Pensacola Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4453-7
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.1998.715598
