Lineaments are vital geological features that play the role of a key indicator for ground water and petroleum searching. At present, there is no study that has utilised remote sensing satellite data to reconstruct three dimensional (3-D) lineament visualization in the Uinted Arab Emirates (UAE). This work aimed at reconstructing a (3-D) lineament visualization from multispectral remote sensing ...

An efficient self-organizing neural fuzzy controller (SONFC) is designed to improve the transient stability of multimachine power systems. First, an artificial neural network (ANN)-based model is introduced for fuzzy logic control. The characteristic rules and their membership functions of fuzzy systems are represented as the processing nodes in the ANN model. With the excellent learning capabi...

Since thin-walled composite structures are widely used in structural engineering, damage in such structures is an important issue of research. Matrix cracking is a principal cause of failure in composites. In the present study, a composite matrix cracking model is implemented in a thin-walled hollow circular cantilever beam using an effective stiffness approach. Such structures are used to mode...

Function al reasoning or the Takagi-Sugeno-Kang model is a fuzzy reasoning method aiming at numerical accuracy and has found wide use in fuzzy modeling. ln this method, each rule consists of a fuzzy implication and a functional consequence part. ln this work, a new, online identification method for such a system is presented, for supervised learning tasks. Structure identification is executed b...

One aspect of the use of biomass for energy purposes which remains controversial concerns their full environmental sustainability. Considering the crucial importance of this problem, numerous authors have carried out evaluations of the environmental impact of the various types of biomass by means of several approaches. Although some of these methods are excellent environmental evaluation tools,...

Image enhancement is an important stage in the image-processing domain. The most known image enhancement method is the histogram equalization. This method is an automated one, and realizes a simultaneous modification for brightness and contrast in the case of monochrome images and for brightness, contrast, saturation and hue in the case of color images. Simple and efficient methods can be obtai...

Process Capability Indices (PCIs) are appropriate tools in order to measure the inherent capability of a process. In statistical process control, there are some uncertainties in data, such as uncertain specification limits and data. In these cases, fuzzy logic can be employed to manage the uncertainties. There are some researches about fuzzy process capability indices and in this paper; we pres...

This paper proposes a new forecasting model based on the neural network with weighted fuzzy membership functions (NEWFM) concerning forecasting of turning points in the business cycle by the composite index. NEWFM is a new model of neural networks to improve forecasting accuracy by using self adaptive weighted fuzzy membership functions. The locations and weights of the membership functions are...

-Truck backer-upper problem, considered an acknowledged benchmark in nonlinear system identification, is an excellent test-bed for fuzzy control systems. Fuzzy controller, formulated on the basis of human understanding of the process or identified from measured control actions, can be regarded as an emulator of human operator. Controller design, however, may become difficult, especially if the ...