A new method is proposed to measure software system security. Each component can be characterized by a composite net which combines the features of Finite State Machine and Operation Diagram. A fuzzy number is introduced to this net to represent uncertain elements that might affect the software security, and thus we construct Security Function for each component. The whole system Security Index...

In the past few years, new applications of robots have increased the importance of robotic reliability and fault tolerance. Standard approaches of reliability engineering rely on the probability model, which is often inappropriate for this task due to a lack of su cient probabilistic information during the design and prototyping phases. Fuzzy logic o ers an alternative to the probability paradi...

This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm (GA) approach for solving constrained reliability optimization problem of the five unit bridge network. Considering uncertainty for cost, the reliability optimization problem has been solved by GA technique to maximize system reliability. GA is an efficient method for solving this type of optimization problems. This paper successfully applies the GA techn...

a wind farm is a collection of wind turbines built in an area to provide electricity. wind power is a renewable energy resource and an alternative to non-renewable fossil fuels. in this paper impact of wind farms in power system reliability is investigate and a new procedure for reliability assessment of wind farms in hl1 level is proposed. in proposed procedure, application of fuzzy – markov f...

In some complicated datasets, due to the presence of noisy data points and outliers, cluster validity indices can give conflicting results in determining optimal number clusters. This paper presents a new index for fuzzy-possibilistic c-means clustering called Fuzzy-Possibilistic)FP (index, which works well clusters that vary shape density. Moreover, FPCM like most algorithms is susceptible ini...

Green supplier selection is an important part of green supply chain management. To improve the validity and reliability of green supplier selection, this paper constructed a model based on the improved intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS. Firstly, the concepts of intuitionistic fuzzy set and intuitionistic fuzzy number were given, and a series of algorithms and aggregation operators were defined; on th...

Abstract—Reliability allocation is quite important during early design and development stages for a system to apportion its specified reliability goal to subsystems. This paper improves the reliability fuzzy allocation method, and gives concrete processes on determining the factor and sub-factor sets, weight sets, judgment set, and multi-stage fuzzy evaluation. To determine the weight of factor...

In this paper, we will consider the application of notions and techniques from fuzzy logic, fault trees, and Markov modeling to robot fault tolerance. Fuzzy logic lends itself to quantitative reliability calculations in robotics. The crisp failure rates which are usually used are not actually known, while fuzzy logic, due to its ability to work with the actual approximate (fuzzy) failure rates ...

Due to the existing of various kinds of uncertainties, predicting structural performance is always a great challenge in practical applications. The reliability of structure under the probabilistic uncertainty has been well studied in the past decade. However, the randomness is not the only attribute of reality. This paper attempts to investigate approach for the structural reliability analysis ...

This paper proposes a new perspective and methodology to model the behavior of the components as well as the system using the theory and methods for fuzzy sets. We propose to use the indicator or performance or substitute variable which is very well understood by the customer to fuzzify the states of the component or the system. Both component and system’s fuzzy reliability definitions and mode...