This book presents, as a single package, three semingly contradictory
and often competitive approaches to deal with ever present uncertainty
in science and engineering. The book describes, as a unique view,
probabilistic, fuzzy sets based and antioptimization based approaches,
in order to remedy the present "tower ob Babel" situation, in which
researchers in competing fields do not communicate. Integrative approach
will attract scientists and engineers alike and provide a strong impetus
towards integrative, hybrid approaches.