A growing interest in many-valued logics has developed over recent years, which
to a large extent is based on applications, intended as well as already realised
ones. These applications range from the field of computer science, e.g. in the
areas of automated theorem proving, approximate reasoning, multi-agent systems,
switching theory, and program verification, through the field of pure
mathematics, e.g. in independence of consistency proofs, in generalised set
theories, or in the theory of particular algebraic structures.