Transdisciplinary Scientific Strategies for Soft Computing Development: Towards an Era of Data and Business Analytics

This research is a review and analysis paper that offers a transdisciplinary, methodological, and strategic vision for soft computing development towards a wider favorable impact in data analytics. Strategies are defined, explained, and illustrated by examples. The paper also shows how these strategies are expressed in three dimensions of an ambitious actions plan. They are all integrated into a master strategy called wide knowledge discovery, which offers a way towards the augmented analytics paradigm. Some contributions of this work are defining what kind of mathematical elements should be introduced into soft computing towards a better impact on the area of data analytics, offering orientation towards building new mathematical elements, and defining why and how they can be introduced.