Fuzzy pattern matching technique represents a group of fuzzy methods for supervised fuzzy pattern recognition. These methods build a prototype for each feature and combine the partial estimations of each prototype by a fusion operator. One of the major problems of this technique is that it is not able to model the dependencies between features, and nowadays there is no heuristic in the literatu...

In order to model the real world with imprecise and uncertain information, various extensions of the classical relational data model have been studied in literature using fuzzy set theory. However, vague set, as a generalized fuzzy set, has more powerful ability to process fuzzy information than fuzzy set. In this paper, we have proposed a vague relational database model and have defined a new ...

Risk-based management of environmental systems, like rivers, lakes, groundwater aquifers and coastal areas, is a very useful approach for combating specific problems, like water pollution and loss of ecosystems biodiversity. Uncertainties that could be inherent to natural variabilities in space and time, such as those due to hydrological and climatic variations, together with uncertainties rela...

To calculate partial and total productivity of production factors in broiler farms in Yazd province, 72 manufacturing units were selected based on simple random sampling method and their information and statistics were collected for one production period in the second half of 2013. To measure productivity, the Cobb-Douglas production function was estimated using classic and fuzzy regression met...

In this paper, we introduce the class UTq,s([α1] ;α, β) of analytic functions in the open unit disc U = {z ∈ C : |z| < 1} defined by Dziok-Srivastava operator. The object of the present paper is to determine coefficient estimates and some results concerning the partial sums for functions f(z) belonging to this class.

reweaning mortality has historically been a problem for veterinarians and producers.1-5 While it is important to find management techniques that reduce preweaning mortality, it is also necessary to determine whether these strategies would be economically feasible to implement. The partial budget is a simple economic analysis technique that can nonetheless be a powerful tool in helping determine...

Partial resale refers to the business scenario where some resale activities, yet not all, are feasible. A paper by Geng, Wu and Whinston[12] finds that a time-restricted resale market may benefit a ticket seller more than both unrestricted resale and no resale. This paper extends the study on profitable partial resale model in two directions with both theoretical and practical importance. First...

We present a new approach for the recognition of facial expressions from video sequences in the presence of occlusion. Although promising results have been reported in the literature on automatic recognition of facial expressions, most techniques have been assessed using experiments performed in controlled laboratory conditions which do not reflect real-world conditions. The goal of the work pr...

We propose a taxonomy of mereological relations between dispositions, as well as a series of axioms relating the bearers, triggers or realizations of disposition-complexes and disposition-parts. We apply them on a use case to show how basic dispositions can be combined to express elaborate dispositions. We consider whether those relations of partial ordering satisfy axioms of composition and de...