An integrated fuzzy guidance (IFG) law for a surface to air homing missile is introduced. The introduced approach is a modification of the well-known proportional navigation guidance (PNG) law. The IFG law enables the missile to approach a high maneuvering target while trying to minimize control effort as well as miss-distance in a two-stage flight. In the first stage, while the missile is far ...

Classification of objects is an important area in a variety of fields and applications. In the presence of full knowledge of the underlying joint distributions, Bayes analysis yields an optimal decision procedure and produces optimal error rates. Many different methods are available to make a decision in those cases where information of the underlying joint distributions is not presented. The k...

Recent research on fuzzy quantification for information retrieval has proposed the application of semi-fuzzy quantifiers for improving query languages. Fuzzy quantified sentences are useful as they allow additional restrictions to be imposed on the retrieval process unlike more popular retrieval approaches, which lack the facility to accurately express information needs. For instance, fuzzy qua...

Abstract—Study of fuzzy time series has increasingly attracted much attention due to its salient capabilities of tackling vague and incomplete data. A variety of forecasting models have devoted to improve forecasting accuracy. Recently, Fuzzy time-series based on Fibonacci sequence has been proposed as a new fuzzy time series model which incorporates the concept of the Fibonacci sequence, the f...

Since the early 1990s, the mathematical models have been developed and applied to landslide hazard mapping using GIS. Among various models, this paper discusses the effectiveness of fuzzy set theory for landslide hazard mapping. In this study, we collected several data sets related to landslide occurrences in Boeun, Korea, and then digitally represented as the fuzzy membership functions. To int...

Derived varieties were invented by P. Cohn in [4]. Derived varieties of a given type were invented by the authors in [10]. In the paper we deal with the derived variety Vσ of a given variety, by a fixed hypersubstitution σ. We introduce the notion of the dimension of a variety as the cardinality κ of the set of all proper derived varieties of V included in V. We examine dimensions of some varie...

Geospatial ontology plays a key role in Geospatial Semantic Retrieval (GSR), which provides support for query expansion and disambiguation, relevance ranking and web page annotation. However, existing ontologies are deficient in representing and reasoning fuzzy geospatial information, an important type of information that distributes widely in user’s queries and web pages. This paper proposes a...

This paper deals with the design of a fuzzy PID Controller (FPIDC) with dynamic gain through a fuzzy scheme. The gain factor of Proportional, Integral and Derivative is varied according to process of the proposed dead time. FPIDC is modified which depends on the normalized change of error of the controlled variable (ec) and its number of fuzzy partitions. The proposed scheme is tested for a wid...

Expert systems have been successfully applied to a wide variety of application domains. To achieve better performance, researchers have tried to employ fuzzy logic to the development of expert systems. However, as fuzzy rules and membership functions are difficult to define, most of the existing tools and environments for expert systems do not support fuzzy representation and reasoning. Thus, i...