One of the most important and challenging questions in the area of clustering is how to choose the best-fitting algorithm and parameterization to obtain an optiml clustering for the considered data. The clustering aggregation concept tries to bypass this problem by generating a set of separate, heterogeneous partitionings of the same data set, from which an aggregate clustering is derived. Up t...

recently, gasimov and yenilmez proposed an approach for solving two kinds of fuzzy linear programming (flp) problems. through the approach, each flp problem is first defuzzified into an equivalent crisp problem which is non-linear and even non-convex. then, the crisp problem is solved by the use of the modified subgradient method. in this paper we will have another look at the earlier defuzzifi...

in this paper, a model of an optimal control problem with chance constraints is introduced. the parametersof the constraints are fuzzy, random or fuzzy random variables. todefuzzify the constraints, we consider possibility levels.  bychance-constrained programming the chance constraints are converted to crisp constraints which are neither fuzzy nor stochastic and then the resulting classical op...

We introduce a framework within which reasoning according to à Lukasiewicz logic can be represented. We consider a separable Boolean algebra B endowed with a (certain type of) group G of automorphisms; the pair (B, G) will be called a Boolean ambiguity algebra. B is meant to model a system of crisp properties; G is meant to express uncertainty about these properties. We define fuzzy proposition...

The paper proposes an approach to representing and reasoning about spatial regions with undetermined boundaries, using an adaptation of`RCC-theory', a region-based system for representing qualitative spatial relations developed over the last few years (Randell, Cui and Cohn 1992, Cohn, Randell and Cui 1994). The approach proposed is referred to as thèegg-yolk' representation: a region with unde...

BACKGROUND In Australia, screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) with colonoscopy is meant to be reserved for people at increased risk, however, currently there is a mismatch between individuals' risk of CRC and the type of CRC screening they receive. This paper describes the development and optimisation of a Colorectal cancer RISk Prediction tool ('CRISP') for use in primary care. The aim of the...