Title :
Much ado about nothing: Fuzzy infinities and infinitesimals
Author :
Whalen, Thomas ; Cohen, Murray
Author_Institution :
Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Found., Atlanta, GA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American
Conference_Location :
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2336-9
Electronic_ISBN :
pending
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2012.6291015
