This book inclusively and systematically presents the fundamental
methods, models and techniques of practical application of grey data
analysis, bringing together the authors' many years of theoretical
exploration, real-life application, and teaching. It also reflects the
majority of recent theoretical and applied advances in the theory
achieved by scholars from across the world, providing readers a vivid
overall picture of this new theory and its pioneering research
activities.
The book includes 12 chapters, covering the introduction to grey
systems, a novel framework of grey system theory, grey numbers and their
operations, sequence operators and grey data mining, grey incidence
analysis models, grey clustering evaluation models, series of GM models,
combined grey models, techniques for grey systems forecasting, grey
models for decision-making, techniques for grey control, etc. It also
includes a software package that allows practitioners to conveniently
and practically employ the theory and methods presented in this book.
All methods and models presented here were chosen for their practical
applicability and have been widely employed in various research works.
I still remember 1983, when I first participated in a course on Grey
System Theory. The mimeographed teaching materials had a blue cover and
were presented as a book. It was like finding a treasure: This
fascinating book really inspired me as a young intellectual going
through a period of confusion and lack of academic direction. It shone
with pearls of wisdom and offered a beacon in the mist for a man trying
to find his way in academic research. This book became the guiding light
in my life journey, inspiring me to forge an indissoluble bond with Grey
System Theory.
----Sifeng Liu
