Fuzzy Optimization and Reasoning Approaches

Abstract

Long-term strategic reflection is a process that faces several challenges. Among them the uncertainty, which may be due to a multitude of reasons. The literature covers a wide range of contributions with methods and models focused on dealing with uncertainty in terms of optimization of complex systems and little on dealing with conjecture processes to build knowledge about the future. The Future Studies and Soft Computing fields offer a meeting place for the notions of experience, meta-knowledge, macro-effects and non-arbitrariness. This chapter develops a proposed link between the two fields to help decision makers change their ways of thinking, make new decisions about the choices they have to make and learn to plant new seeds of the future.