An independent treatment of fuzzy systems engineering, offering conceptual fundamentals, design methodologies, development guidelines, and carefully selected illustrative material Forty years have passed since the birth of fuzzy sets, in which time many theoretical developments, conceptual pursuits, environmental algorithms, and other applications have emerged. A radical departure from current books on the subject, Fuzzy Systems Engineering presents fuzzy sets as an enabling technology whose impact, contributions, and methodology stretch far beyond any specific discipline, so it applies to researchers and practitioners in engineering, computer science, business, medicine, bioinformatics, and computational biology.