The eighteen papers in this special section focus on emerging techniques and applications supported by fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence (AI). AI has become the focus of the day and attracted much attention from researchers, industries, and governments. This special issue serves as a forum to bring together all emerging techniques for fuzzy logic and fuzzy set-based AI and foster new advancements along this important direction. Actually, there have been a number of research pursuits that position themselves at the junction of AI and fuzzy logic. For example, natural language processing, viewed as the jewel in the crown of AI, has been one of the focal points in the domain of fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets. Fuzzy sets can offer an effective paradigm supporting accurate understanding of natural language and build efficient linkages to human intelligence through concepts and computing with membership functions, in particular type-2 fuzzy sets for explainable AI.

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社论：模糊逻辑与人工智能：新兴技术及其应用特刊


本专题部分的 18 篇论文重点关注模糊逻辑和人工智能 (AI) 支持的新兴技术和应用。人工智能已成为当今的焦点，吸引了研究人员、行业和政府的广泛关注。本期特刊作为一个论坛，汇集了模糊逻辑和基于模糊集的人工智能的所有新兴技术，并沿着这一重要方向促进新的进步。事实上，已经有许多研究将自己定位于人工智能和模糊逻辑的结合点。例如，被视为人工智能皇冠上的宝石的自然语言处理一直是模糊逻辑和模糊集领域的焦点之一。模糊集可以提供有效的范例，支持对自然语言的准确理解，并通过概念和隶属函数计算建立与人类智能的有效联系，特别是用于可解释人工智能的 2 类模糊集。