The shortest path problem (SPP) is one of the most important combinatorial optimization problems in graph theory due to its various applications. The uncertainty existing in the real world problems makes it difficult to determine the arc lengths exactly. The fuzzy set is one of the popular tools to represent and handle uncertainty in information due to incompleteness or inexactness. In most cas...

Sign language recognition has spawned more and more interest in human–computer interaction society. The major challenge that SLR recognition faces now is developing methods that will scale well with increasing vocabulary size with a limited set of training data for the signer independent application. The automatic SLR based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) is very sensitive to gesture's shape inf...

Article history: Received 15 November 2012 Received in revised form 3 January 2014 Accepted 1 February 2014 Available online 10 February 2014

The notion of a rough set was originally proposed by Pawlak [Z. Pawlak, Rough sets, International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 11 (5) (1982) 341–356]. Later on, Dubois and Prade [D. Dubois, H. Prade, Rough fuzzy sets and fuzzy rough sets, International Journal of General System 17 (2–3) (1990) 191–209] introduced rough fuzzy sets and fuzzy rough sets as a generalization of rough...

As Granular Computing has gained interest, more research has lead into using different representations for Information Granules, i.e., rough sets, intervals, quotient space, fuzzy sets; where each representation offers different approaches to information granulation. These different representations have given more flexibility to what information granulation can achieve. In this overview paper, ...

This paper presents a new interval type-2 fuzzy inference system to handle uncertainty using reduced-set vector learning mechanism based on hybrid kernels. Firstly, a novel concept, interval kernel, is proposed. It establishes a relationship between interval type-2 fuzzy membership and hybrid kernel. According to it, a particular interval type-2 fuzzy inference system is built, which abandons t...