2001 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 334-339
Although fuzzy reasoning has been used for human decision making models, it has been pointed out that constructing of the fuzzy rules for fuzzy reasoning models are relatively difficult. Qualitative Comparative Analysis, which was developed by Ragin^<[6], [7]> and has been used for the qualitative case studies in the field of social sciences, is suitable for identifying the configurations of causal conditions. Therefore, we propose to use Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a complementary tool for fuzzy reasoning, that is, to use Qualitative Comparative Analysis for our constructing the fuzzy rules for a fuzzy reasoning model. The effectiveness of our method is discussed through an example of field study on teleworking.
