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Soft computing
{{Expert-subject|computer science|date=July 2009}}
{{Distinguish|soft microprocessor}}

'''Soft computing''' is a term applied to a field within computer science which is characterized byIn computer science, '''soft computing''' is the use of inexact solutions to computationally hard tasks such as the solution of [[NP-complete]] problems, for which there is no known algorithm that can compute an exact solution in [[polynomial time]]. Soft computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that, unlike hard computing, it is tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation. In effect, the role model for soft computing is the human mind.

==Introduction==
(contracted; show full)==External links==
* [http://www.softcomputing.es EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING]
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/~niskanen/bisc.html BISC SIG IN PHILOSOPHY OF SOFT COMPUTING]

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