ABSTRACT
With the rapid development of modern science and technology, people are now facing
problems that are more complicated and varied. System engineering, a scientific
methodology with a general significance to all systems, is also challenged. An important
field of system engineering lies in the handling of fuzzy information generated by
human or other factors.
As we know, the important information of systems include firstly, data information
gained by sensors, investigation statistics and other ways; secondly, language
information collected from enlightening knowledge of experts or field operators.
Obviously, it will be ideal if we can unitarily use the two kinds of information to
analysis, design and control the mentioned system. However, most of traditional system
engineering methods and techniques say no to such kind of fuzzy language information.
Since L.A.Zadeh, the cyberneticist and mathematician at California University of U.S.A,
advanced Fuzzy Mathematics in 1965, a large number of scholars have been interested
in the newly born. The study of its theory and methods has so far been fruitful and
extensively applied to every field of natural science and social science.
In the study of soft science such as management and social science, many problems
show both quantities and qualitative aspects. In many cases qualitative aspects occupy
very important positions which make the problem neither easy to deal with or to get
across. In order to use mathematic model or other quantities analytical tools to study
these kinds of problems, we need quantify the qualitative aspects, which can be
measured after quantifying. After the process, it is likely to use those tools to model and
to solve. Clearly, the efficiency of quantifying model has a close relation with the effect
of qualitative aspect quantifying. Therefore, we should probe into the method of
quantifying qualitative aspects.
This dissertation discuss qualitative aspects’ quantifying problem based on fuzzy
information optimal processing techniques aiming at finding a way to covert qualitative
aspects described by human language to numeric quantities in order to enable people to
research the original problem deeply and mathematically that is impossible in the past.
So this dissertation, dealing with the fuzzy information generated by human or other
factors, is a research of unitarily using data information and fuzzy language information.
The main research results of the dissertation are as follows:
The essence of the difference of degrees between things measured by human language
has been discussed and a qualitative quantifying model has been established. The model
realizes the idea of converting qualitative aspects described by human language to
numeric quantities and smoothed the way of using quantities analytical tools to study
problems with qualitative aspects.
A research on the price of car made in China is conducted as an example.
Representative factors deciding the price of a car including both quantitative and
qualitative are selected. Using the above mentioned model qualitative factors are
processed. And then, both the quantitative and quantified qualitative factors are applied
to traditional causal model (Multivariable Linear Regression Model and Neural