On Mereology as a Tool in Problems of Intelligent Control, Granular Computing, Data Analysis and Approximate and Spatial Reasoning

摘要

Mereology is a theory of concepts using the notion of a part as its primitive notion. This notion is well suited for analysis and reasoning about mass concepts like solids, figures, swarms of things. We aim here at highlighting foundations of mereology and its extension, rough mereology in which the notion of a part undergoes a 'fuzzification' to the notion of a part to a degree, along with applications to problems of intelligent control of teams of intelligent agents, granular computing, spatial reasoning, data analysis and approximate reasoning about classification of data into decision classes.