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From: Ronald.Hartwig@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Ronald Hartwig)
Subject: Announce: Free fuzzy contr. dev. system available
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 13:31:16 GMT
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Hi, 

this is the first announce of the FOOL & FOX fuzzy controller
development system: (BTW: If you know of any other newsgroups where I
should post this, just tell me):
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*		What are FOOL and FOX ?			*
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We want to introduce the FOOL & FOX fuzzy logic development
tools to you ->
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FOOL = Fuzzy system development tool with interactive 'foolproof'
graphical user interface.

FOX = A small but powerful fuzzy engine. It works based on the databases
created with FOOL. 


FOOL and FOX offer the following features: (for free!)
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+ Interactive and (a kind of) "FOOLproof" development interface based
on the xview libs. 
 
+ Online help

+ Support of most known fuzzy operators (36 different to be
exact). Exact tuning of every application of an operator
possible. Parameterized operators fully supported.

+ Five types of standard membership functions plus an unlimited number
of user defined membership functions.

+ User defined internal calculation precision

+ Fuzzy and/or floating point (crisp) input and output values
possible. No limits except your double-floating point range. 

+ Building of multi-stage and/or parallel fuzzy systems possible via
simple shell scripts (or whatever language you like). 

+ Easyily portable fuzzy engine (FOX) with low hard- and software
requirements. FOX only needs an ANSI-C compiler.

+ ASCII database format for better readability. Maybe you want to use
that database for your own software project.

+ Graphical visualisation of your self-defined linguistic variables
and the operators via the KHOROS xprism tools (if available; read
the KHOROS-section of the manual-printout). 

+ FOOL compiles on all machines with an ANSI C Compiler and xview-Libraries. 
(FOOL was tested successfully on DEC MIPS, Linux and Sun OS)

+ Includes a complete user's manual (~100 pages) in postscript-format
and a step-by-step example. 



FOOL stands for the Fuzzy Organizer OLdenburg. It is a result from a
students project at the University of Oldenburg. FOOL is a graphical user
interface to develop fuzzy rulebases.  FOOL will help you to invent
and maintain a database that specifies the behaviour of a fuzzy-controller 
or something like that. 

FOX is a small but powerful fuzzy engine which reads this
database, reads some input values and calculates the new control
value.


The package is available via ftp from:

		 ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de

in 	   /pub/fool (Read the INDEX file for details)

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We hope you find it useful and await your comments: 

The team of FOOL(s)
			    Sven Nordhoff,
			   Bernd Landorff,
			 Carsten Labinsky and
			    Ronald Hartwig

		   fool@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de


ps: OK, that was enthusiastic advertising ;-) but we are not Mancosoft
and you won't have to pay for beta-testing here (yet). 
Even if we overdid it in some points, we still hope you like the
package and may find it useful. 



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