project selection is considered as an important problem in project management. it is multi-criteria in nature and is based on various quantitative and qualitative factors. the main purpose of this paper is to present a new rank-based method for project selection in outranking relation. according to this approach, decision alternatives were clustered in the concordance matrix and the discordance...

One of the disadvantages of the relational model is its disability to model uncertain and incomplete data. The idea to use fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic to extend existing database models to include these possibilities has been utilized since the 1980s. Although this area has been researched for a long time, concrete implementations are rare. Literature contains references to several models of fuz...

An approach to calculate the relational division in fuzzy databases is presented, starting with the GEFRED model. The tuples of the division are obtained with a possibility degree that indicates the extent to which they comply with the relational division requisites. The results obtained are those expected a priori. Furthermore, in order to formalize this method of fuzzy relational division, tw...

Within the framework of flexible querying of possibilistic databases, based on the fuzzy set theory, this chapter focuses on the case where the vocabulary used both in the querying language and in the data is hierarchically organized, which occurs in systems that use ontologies. We give an overview of previous works concerning two issues: firstly, flexible querying of imprecise data in the rela...

Introduction: Researchers have employed surface electromyography (EMG) to study the human masticatory system and the relationship between the activity of masticatory muscles and the mechanical features of mastication. This relationship has several applications in food texture analysis, control of prosthetic limbs, rehabilitation, and teleoperated robots. Materials and Methods: In this paper, w...

We present an overview of the most important proposals for human-oriented query languages for relational databases, based on fuzzy sets theory. To highlight important issues concerning communication with databases, we propose two taxonomies: the first taxonomy deals with flexible query languages in crisp relational databases and the second deals with flexible query languages in fuzzy relational...

Real-world manufacturing supply chain systems are characterised by imprecise and dynamic factors. As a result, decision-making takes place in a complex, dynamic and fuzzy environment in which managerial goals and the impacts of possible actions are not precisely known. In a demand driven manufacturing supply chain system, the presence of a fuzzy demand is a serious cause for concern. The presen...

As moving to big data world where data is increasing in unstructured way with high velocity, there is a need of data-store to store this bundle amount of data. Traditionally, relational databases are used which are now not compatible to handle this large amount of data, so it is needed to move on to non-relational data-stores. In the current study, we have proposed an extension of the Mongo...

A primary application of web usage profiling is in model-based collaborative filtering (CF) for building recommender systems used for web personalization. CF techniques used for recommendation require accumulation of vast amount of historical user-preference information, which is queried to provide a personalized experience. Model-based CF techniques are preferred over the somewhat more accurat...

Numerous biological databases such as Microbial Genome Database for Comparative Analysis (MBGD), Microbial Identification and Typing Database (HPA) and National Microbiological Database (NMD) have been developed in recent times which triggered impacts in the different research fields of biological sciences. It has been observed that due to adaptability, evolution, and emergence, the biological ...