A recently proposed swarm intelligence technique for Fuzzy Cognitive Map learning is described. The technique employs the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm to minimize a proper objective function, whose global minimizers correspond to suboptimal weight matrices of the Fuzzy Cognitive Map. New instances of an industrial test problem are studied, justifying the usefulness of the technique as ...

The paper relates a principle for designing the fuzzy fault detection filters devoted to a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems represented by TakagiSugeno models. The extension of the fuzzy reference model principle and the incremental quadratic constraints are proposed to obtain an approximation of H∞/H_ criterion in the residual weight matrix parameter design for TS fuzzy fault detecti...

This paper proposes fuzzy regression analysis with non-symmetric fuzzy coefficients. By assuming non-symmetric triangular fuzzy coefficients and applying the quadratic programming formulation, the center of the obtained fuzzy regression model attains more central tendency compared to the one with symmetric triangular fuzzy coefficients. For a data set composed of crisp inputs-fuzzy outputs, two...

Some simple yet pragmatic methods of consistency test are developed to check whether an interval fuzzy preference relation is consistent. Based on the definition of additive consistent fuzzy preference relations proposed by Tanino [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 12 (1984) 117131], a study is carried out to examine the correspondence between the element and weight vector of a fuzzy preference relation. ...

logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. the selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. in this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...

to investigate pedological criterion on land degradation in quaternary rock units, at first, a part of the shoor watershed area was selected. after distinguishing target area, slope classes, land use and geology maps were created, then map of units were founded by overlaying and crossing these maps. in this research three indices of erodibility, salinity and permeability of soils were considere...

investigation of desertification trend needs understanding of phenomena creating changes singly or action and reaction together in the manner that these changes were ended up in land degradation. in investigation of pedological criterion onland degradation in quaternary rock units, first, a part of the rude-shoor watershed area was selected. after distinguishing target area, maps of slope class...

An important outcome of assessing relative efficiencies within a group of decision making units (DMUs) in fuzzy data envelopment analysis is a set of virtual multipliers or weights accorded to each (input or output) factor taken into account. These sets of weights are, typically, different for each of the participating DMUs, and in some cases it may be considered unacceptable that the same fact...

In this paper we propose the use of a set of weights in fuzzy modelling, the class weights, which are assigned to each class of a classification problem. We automatically generate a fuzzy model, using a three-stage methodology: (i) generation of a crisp model from a decision tree, induced from the data, (ii) transformation of the crisp model into a fuzzy one, and (iii) optimization of the fuzzy...

This paper presents a similarity-based approach for prognostics of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of a system, i.e. the lifetime remaining between the present and the instance when the system can no longer perform its function. Data from failure dynamic scenarios of the system are used to create a library of reference trajectory patterns to failure. Given a failure scenario developing in the s...