The concept of space underlying geographic information systems is basically Euclideazl, requiring all subjects to adhere to the same view of space. This makes most attempts to deal with intprecise or uncertain geographic information difficult or sometimes even impossible. In this paper, we describe a way of incorporating imprecise qualitative spatial reasoning with quantitative reasoning in geo...

in this paper, two sets of sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the existence and stability of a unique equilibrium point of unforced first-order fuzzy relational dynamical systems by using two different approaches which are both based on the fuzzy relational matrix of the model.in the first approach, the equilibrium point of the system is one of the centers of the related membership fu...

the linear multiobjective transportation problem is a special type of vector minimum problem in which constraints are all equality type and the objectives are conicting in nature. this paper presents an application of fuzzy goal programming to the linear multiobjective transportation problem. in this paper, we use a special type of nonlinear (hyperbolic and exponential) membership functions to ...

unknown noise and artifacts present in medical signals with  non-linear fuzzy filter will be estimate and then removed. an adaptive neuro-fuzzy interference system which has a nonlinear  structure presented  for the noise function prediction by before samples. this paper is about a neuro-fuzzy method to estimate unknown noise of electrocardiogram (ecg) signal. adaptive neural combined with fuzz...

The aim of this study is to design an improved FCM with constraints algorithm (iFCM_S) for brain tissue segmentation based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). The fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm has been widely used in many medical image segmentations. However, the conventionally standard FCM algorithm is sensitive to noise because of not taking into account the membership function informatio...

a manufacturing process cannot be released to production until it has been proven to be stable. also, we cannot begin to talk about process capability until we have demonstrated stability in our process. this means that the process variation is the result of random causes only and all assignable or special causes have been removed. in complicated manufacturing processes, such as drilling proces...

this article, by leaving pre-determined membership function of a fuzzy set which is a basic assumption for such subject, will try to propose a hybrid technique to select the most economic project among alternative projects in fuzziness interest rates condition. in this way, net present worth (npw) would be the economic indicator. this article tries to challenge the assumption of large sample si...

A data-adaptive approach for cDNA microarray image enhancement is presented. Through the weighting coefficients adaptively determined from local microarray image statistics, the proposed technique tunes the overall filter’s detail-preserving and noise-attenuating characteristics and uses both the spatial and spectral correlation of the cDNA image during processing. Noise removal is performed by...

A Gaussian membership function to model image information in spatial domain has been proposed in this paper. We introduce a new contrast intensification operator, which involves a parameter t for enhancement of color images. By minimizing the fuzzy entropy of the image information, the parameter t is calculated globally. A visible improvement in the image quality for human contrast perception i...