Using mid-infrared and radio criteria, we select a sample of candidate z ∼ 2 obscured quasars. Optical spectroscopy confirms about half of these as type-2 quasars, and modelling the population suggests 50-80% of the quasars are obscured. We find some flat radio spectrum type-2 quasars, and tentative evidence for obscuration unrelated to the torus. Using a similar sample, we also find evidence f...

Navigation of autonomous mobile robots in dynamic and unknown environments needs to take into account different kinds of uncertainties. Type-1 fuzzy logic research has been largely used in the control of mobile robots. However, type-1 fuzzy control presents limitations in handling those uncertainties as it uses precise fuzzy sets. Indeed type-1 fuzzy sets cannot deal with linguistic and numeric...

This paper proposes a new intelligent scheme using type-2 fuzzy inference system in neural network structure. This type-2 fuzzy neural network system (type-2 FNN) combines the advantages of type-2 fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) and neural networks (NNs). The general FNN system (called type-1 FNN system) has the properties of parallel computation scheme, easy to implement, fuzzy logic inference syst...

Since Lotfi A. Zadeh introduced the concept of fuzzy sets in 1965, many authors have devoted their efforts to the study of these new sets, both from a theoretical and applied point of view. Fuzzy sets were later extended in order to get more adequate and flexible models of inference processes, where uncertainty, imprecision or vagueness is present. Type 2 fuzzy sets comprise one of such extensi...

Faculty of Technology Department of Informatics by Majid Almaraashi This thesis reports the work of using simulated annealing to design more efficient fuzzy logic systems to model problems with associated uncertainties. Simulated annealing is used within this work as a method for learning the best configurations of type-1 and type-2 fuzzy logic systems to maximise their modelling ability. There...

Abstract: This paper presents a new general type-2 fuzzy logic method for edge detection applied to color format images. The proposed algorithm combines the methodology based on the image gradients and general type-2 fuzzy logic theory to provide a powerful edge detection method. General type-2 fuzzy inference systems are approximated using the α-planes approach. The edge detection method is te...

Finding a product with high quality and reasonable price online is a difficult task due to the fuzzy nature of data and queries. In order to handle the fuzzy problem, a new type-2 fuzzy reasoning based decision support system, the Web Shopping Expert for online users is proposed. In the Web Shopping Expert, an interval type-2 fuzzy logic system is used and a fuzzy output can be obtained using t...

A Three-Way Decision Clustering Approach for High Dimensional Data By: Yu, Hong; Zhang, Haibo Edited by: Flores, V; Gomide, F; Janusz, A; et al. Conference: International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (IJCRS) Location: Univ Chile, Santiago, CHILE Date: OCT 0711, 2016 Sponsor(s): Springer; IRSS; Data Mining Serv Ltd; Complex Engn Syst Inst; ISCI ROUGH SETS, (IJCRS 2016) Book Series: Lecture Not...