The roots of granular computing

Granular Computing arose as a synthesis of insights into human-centred information processing by Zadeh in the late '90s and the Granular Computing name was coined, at this early stage, by T.Y Lin. Although the name is now in widespread use, or perhaps because of it, there are calls for a clarification of the distinctiveness of Granular Computing against the background of other human-centred information processing paradigms. This study examines the basic motivation for information granulation and casts Granular Computing as a structured combination of algorithmic and non-algorithmic information processing that mimics human, intelligent synthesis of knowledge from information.