Didier Dubois (born 1952) is a
French
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mathematician
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.
Since 1999, he is a co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
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''.
In 1993–1997 he was vice-president and president of the International Fuzzy Systems Association.
His research interests include
fuzzy set theory
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Music
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,
possibility theory
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, and
knowledge representation
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. Most of his works are co-authored by Henri Prade.
Selected bibliography
* Dubois, Didier and Prade, Henri (1980). ''Fuzzy Sets & Systems: Theory and Applications''. Academic Press (APNet).
* Dubois, Didier and Prade, Henri (1988). ''Possibility Theory: An Approach to Computerized Processing of Uncertainty''. New York: Plenum Press.
See also
*
Construction of t-norms for Dubois–Prade t-norms
External links
Didier Dubois' home page at IRIT"On the use of aggregation operations in information fusion process" Didier Dubois, Henri Prade (2004)"Interval-valued Fuzzy Sets, Possibility Theory and Imprecise Probability" Didier Dubois, Henri Prade
1952 births
Living people
French mathematicians
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