The local community is a complex socio-economic system, and its ability to function for an indefinitely long period of time (viability) is not investigated sufficiently today. The purpose of the research was, using the cognitive mapping, propose to the local community management developing their own management strategies to ensure its viability. Considering the weakly structured subject area of...

There are considerable interest in algorithms for detecting community structure, which is fundamental for analyzing the relationship between structure and function in complex networks. In this paper, after the introduction of some traditional approaches for detecting community structure and data mining clustering algorithms, we propose Mapping Vertex into Vector(MVV) algorithm, which can conver...

This article aims to establish a concrete and fundamental connection between two important elds in arti cial intelligence i.e. deep learning and fuzzy logic. On the one hand, we hope this article will pave the way for fuzzy logic researchers to develop convincing applications and tackle challenging problems which are of interest to machine learning community too. On the other hand, deep learnin...

System modeling with fuzzy rule-based systems (FRBSs), i.e. fuzzy modeling (FM), usually comes with two contradictory requirements in the obtained model: the interpretability, capability to express the behavior of the real system in an understandable way, and the accuracy, capability to faithfully represent the real system. While linguistic FM (mainly developed by linguistic FRBSs) is focused o...

The concept of ornament has emerged as a result of the existence of the human being and its relation to its environment. Ornament of objects, which aim at adding qualitative features to objects alongside their quantitative states, is a practice that is as old as humanity. Within this process of the individual’s efforts in thinking, designing, creating, and communicating, one comes across orname...

Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank the Consejería de Educación y Ciencia de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (grant # PEII-2014-020-A). The economic support of the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha is also acknowledged. Abstract Critical analysis of the state of the art is a necessary task when identifying new research lines worthwhile to pursue. To such an end, all the ava...

Current theories about mechanisms promoting species co-existence in diverse communities assume that species only interact ecologically. Species are treated as discrete evolutionary entities, even though abundant empirical evidence indicates that patterns of gene flow such as selfing and hybridization frequently occur in plant and animal groups. Here, we allow mating behavior to respond to local...

We discuss the background and methods for estimating uncertainty in establishing a regional, terrestrial biota Full Carbon Account (FCA) in a holistic manner utilizing our experiences in generating such an account for a vast region in Northern Eurasia. For such an analysis, it is important to (1) provide a full account; (2) consider the relevance of a certified account; (3) understand that any ...

The theme of this Special Issue is on Analytical Theory of Fuzzy Control with Applications. The theoretical development covered in this issue is focused on mathematical analysis and rigorous design methods for fuzzy control systems. Introduced in 1974, fuzzy control, as an emerging technology targeting industrial applications, has added a promising dimension to the existing domain of convention...