Epidemical crisis prediction is one of the most challenging examples of decision making with uncertain information. As in many other types of crises, epidemic outbreaks may pose various degrees of surprise as well as various degrees of “derivatives” of the surprise (i.e., the speed and acceleration of the surprise). Often, crises such as epidemic outbreaks are accompanied by a secondary set of ...

manuscript: Busey, Soine, Choi, and Shuman. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Busey, Soine, Yager, and Shuman. Statistical analysis: Busey, Soine, Choi, and Shuman. Administrative, technical, and material support: Yager, Choi, and Shuman. Study supervision: Busey, Soine, and Shuman. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Shuman receives clinical research gran...

Fuzzy logic control is a methodology bridging artificial intelligence and traditional control theory. This methodology is usually applied in the only cases when accuracy is not of high necessity or importance. On the other hand, as it is stated in (TI SPRA028, Jan.1993), “Fuzzy Logic can address complex control problems, such as robotic arm movement, chemical or manufacturing process control, a...

This paper proposes the evaluation of arteriovenous shunt (AVS) stenosis using a fractional-order Fuzzy Petri net based screening system for long-term hemodialysis treatment of patients. The screening system uses the Burg method, the fractional-order chaos system, and the Fuzzy Petri net (FPN) for early detection of AVS dysfunction. The Burg method is an autoregressive (AR) model that is used t...

background and objectives: regarding the importance of finding new antibacterial drugs, screening of plants as a promising resource are now conducted worldwide. in this study, we report the application of a simple previously described method for screening of different plant seeds in order to find the best resources of plant antimicrobial peptides. materials and methods: total water soluble prot...

This study has developed a production inventory model where the cycle timeis fuzzy, the existence of defective products is assumed in each batch andproduct screening is performed both in-production and after-production.Triangular fuzzy numbers serve to model uncertainties in the cycle time, anda fuzzified total inventory profit function is created by thedefuzzifica...

in this paper, we investigate the general fuzzy linear system of equations.  the  main aim of this paper is based on the embedding approach. we find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of fuzzy solution of the mentioned systems.  finally, numerical examples are presented to more illustration of the proposed model.

The petroleum industry is developing technology to increase oil recovery in reservoirs. One of the technologies used Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). Selecting an EOR method for a specific reservoir condition one most challenging tasks engineer. This study tries build fuzzy logic-based screening system determine method. It created intending be able assist selecting and determining appropriate field...