In this paper, a fuzzy modeling method using genetic algorithms (GAs) with a conciseness measure is presented. This paper introduces De Luca and Termini's fuzzy entropy to evaluate the shape of a membership function, and proposes another measure to evaluate the deviation of a membership function from symmetry. A combined measure is then derived from these two measures, and a new conciseness mea...

The current trend in the rapid growth of on-line image databases has brought forth several innovative approaches to content-based image retrieval. Most current techniques retrieve images based on an example image or object shapes/features extracted from images. Retrieval based on linguistic queries has not recieved much attention. In this paper, we present a fuzzy connective approach to handle ...

Fuzzy Logic Controllers Lee90] (FLCs) are being widely and successfully applied in diierent areas. Fuzzy Logic Controllers can be considered as knowledge-based systems, incorporating human knowledge into their Knowledge Base through Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Membership Functions (among other information elements). The deenition of these Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Membership Functions is actually aaected...

in this paper, for a complete lattice l, we introduce interval-valued l-fuzzy ideal (prime ideal) of a near-ring which is an extended notion of fuzzy ideal (prime ideal) of a near-ring. some characterization and properties are discussed.

In an earlier paper, we derived explicit Fourier series expressions for systematic computation of grade of membership in the overlap and non-overlap regions of triangular fuzzy sets; and by implication, computation of union and intersection of the fuzzy sets. In this paper, we hereby extend the methodology to cover cases of the cosine, exponential and Gaussian fuzzy sets by presenting explicit ...

Li and Yu (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 101 (1999) 109) argued that the model of Yang et al. for fuzzy programming (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 41 (1991) 39) is correct only for a speci2c type of piecewise linear membership function and proposed their model for other type of membership functions. This study generalizes the model of Yang et al. A numerical example indicates that the model of Li and Yu is i...

Although fuzzy logic systems have been successfully applied in many complex industrial processes, they experience a deficiency in knowledge acquisition and rely to a great extent on empirical and heuristic knowledge, which, in many cases, cannot be objectively elicited. One of the most important considerations in designing fuzzy systems is construction of the membership functions for each fuzzy...

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 ...

Potato image segmentation is an important part of image-based potato defect detection. This paper presents a robust potato color image segmentation through a combination of a fuzzy rule based system, an image thresholding based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization and morphological operators. The proposed potato color image segmentation is robust against variation of background, distance and ...

Classical control theory is based on the mathematical models that describe the physical plant under consideration. The essence of fuzzy control is to build a model of human expert who is capable of controlling the plant without thinking in terms of mathematical model. The transformation of expert's knowledge in terms of control rules to fuzzy frame work has not been formalized and arbitrary cho...