one-third of the people with an age over twenty have some signs of degenerated discs. however, in most of the patients the mere presence of degenerative discs is not a problem leading to pain, neurological compression, or other symptoms. this paper presents an interval type-2 fuzzy hybrid rule-based system to diagnose the abnormal degenerated discs where pain variables are represented by interv...

Rough set theory was proposed by Pawlak [1] as a mathematical tool to handle imprecision and uncertainty in data analysis. It has been successfully applied tomachine learning, intelligent systems, inductive reasoning, pattern recognition, mereology, image processing, signal analysis, knowledge discovery, decision analysis, expert systems, and many other fields [2–5]. The basic structure of roug...

This paper proposes a Self-Evolving Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Network (SEIT2FNN) for nonlinear systems identification. The SEIT2FNN has both on-line structure and parameter learning abilities. The antecedent parts in each fuzzy rule of the SEIT2FNN are interval type-2 fuzzy sets and the fuzzy rules are of the Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) type. An on-line clustering method is proposed to generate...

A multiobjective security game problem with fuzzy payoffs is studied in this paper. The problem is formulated as a bilevel programming problem with fuzzy coefficients. Using the idea of nearest interval approximation of fuzzy numbers, the problem is transformed into a bilevel programming problem with interval coefficients. The Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions is applied then to reduce the problem ...

Fuzzy logic is frequently used in computing with words (CWW). When input words to a CWW engine are modeled by interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2 FSs), the CWW engine’s output can also be an IT2 FS, e A, which needs to be mapped to a linguistic label so that it can be understood. Because each linguistic label is represented by an IT2 FS e Bi, there is a need to compare the similarity of e A and e B...

Energy is a critical factor to obtain a sustainable development for countries and governments. Selection of the most appropriate energy alternative is a completely critical and a complex decision making problem. In this paper, an integrated multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology based on type-2 fuzzy sets is proposed for selection among energy alternatives. Then a roadmap has been cr...

Recently, the rough set and fuzzy set theory have generated a great deal of interest among more and more researchers. Granular computing (GrC) is an emerging computing paradigm of information processing and an approach for knowledge representation and data mining. The purpose of granular computing is to seek for an approximation scheme which can effectively solve a complex problem at a certain ...

Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) to solve complicated decisions often includes uncertainty, which could be tackled by utilizing the fuzzy sets theory. Type-2 fuzzy sets consider more uncertainty than type-1 fuzzy sets. These fuzzy sets provide more degrees of freedom to illustrate the uncertainty and fuzziness in real-world production projects. In this paper, a new multi-criteria ana...

Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller (IT2FLC) where the fuzzy parameters, e.g. Fuzzy Membership Functions and Fuzzy Rule Bases are tuned by Genetic Algorithm (GAs) known as Genetic Interval Type-2 Fuzzy System (GIT2FS). The GFS are discussed briefly, later, the proposed design is explained. Key wordsGA, Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller (IT2FLC), Genetic Interval Type2 Fuzzy System (GIT2...