灰色系统理论的产生与发展

论述了灰色系统理论产生的科学背景，简要介绍了灰色系统的有关概念和灰色系统理论的主要研究内容，对灰色系统理论与概率统计、模糊数学等不确定性理论的异同作了比较，介绍了灰色系统理论这门迅速发展，日臻完善的新兴横断学科在国际国内学术界的影响和地位，及其在工业、农业、经济、能源、交通、石油、地质、水利、气象、生态、环境、医学、教育、体育、军事、法学、金融和生命科学等众多领域的成功应用。最后，提出了该领域中若干应当进一步研究的科学问题。

Emergence and Development of Grey System Theory and Its Forward Trends

The scientific background that grey system theory comes into being, the basic concept, and the main content of grey system theory is presented. The similarities and differences of grey system theory with stochastic analysis and fuzzy mathematics are compared. As a new research with strong capabilities to transect across and to permeate into various traditional scientific fields and disciplines, the astonishing progress in which grey system theory has made in the world of learning and its wide employment in such scientific areas as industry, agriculture, economics, energy, transportation, geography, geology, meteorology, hydraulic power, ecology, environment studies, medicine, education, military science, finance, and life sciences, ect. is presented. Finally, several scientific problems further studied in grey system theory are put forward.