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From: Bernd.Landorff@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Bernd Landorff)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: FOOLpackage version 1.2 released
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 10:55:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Apr25.105727.26002@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Keywords: Fuzzy Logic, FOOL, simulation
Sender: news@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE
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Hello,
we are proud to announce the version 1.2 of our Fuzzy Logic
development tool FOOL!

*********************************************************
*		What are FOOL and FOX ?			*
*********************************************************

We want to introduce the FOOL & FOX fuzzy logic development
tools to you ->
==========================================================================

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 xprism from the KHOROS package or gnuplot.

+ 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
a step-by-step example. 



FOOL stands for the Fuzzy Organizer OLdenburg. It is a result from a
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.

			*********************
			*** WHAT you get: ***
			*********************

FOOLpackage_v1.2.source.tar.gz		The complete sources
FOOLpackage_v1.2.manual.tar.gz		The 100 page manual in small blocks
     

	       ***************************************
	       *** CHANGES in package release 1.2: ***
  	       ***************************************

The package release 1.2 contains FOOL version 1.1 and FOX version 1.1
and some additional auxillary programs. 

	- Minor changes in the manual.
	- Minor changes in the copyright. 

FOOL(v1.1): 
	- Now supports gnuplot too (Thanx to Rinus Verkerk) 
	- Tempfiles are now cleaned up when leaving FOOL
	- Fixed strdup("") compile-error in FOOLfile.c

FOX(v1.1): 
	- In 1.0 FOX was unable to use fuzzy input
	values. Now this bug is fixed.
	- Minor bugfixes for translating different fuzzy input precisions.


			*********************
			** WHERE to get it **
			*********************
ftp:
====
The package is available via ftp from:

ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de		/pub/fool

ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov			/pub/fuzzy/prog

(Note: We are looking for other sites which want to mirror these files too)

ftpmail:
========
-Send an E-Mail to 'ftpmail@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de'
-set the subject to 'request'
-write a text like this:

CWD pub/fool
SEND FOOLpackage_v1.2.source.tar.gz
SEND FOOLpackage_v1.2.manual.tar.gz
QUIT


=======================================================================
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. 


Fuzzy Organizer OLdenburg team (FOOL team) contacts: 
EMail: fool@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
WWW  : http://condor.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/FOOL.html
