The malicious usage of the cloud platform, untrusted providers, and untrusted perception from the users all contribute to the difficult application of the cloud services. In order to solve these issues, a trust evaluation method of the cloud service based on user perception is proposed. Based on fuzzy set theory, the behaviors of nodes in the cloud platform are quantitated, and the trust values...

The multi-sensor data fusion technique plays a significant role in fault diagnosis and in a variety of such applications, and the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is employed to improve the system performance; whereas, it may generate a counter-intuitive result when the pieces of evidence highly conflict with each other. To handle this problem, a novel multi-sensor data fusion approach on the ba...

this paper addresses a new version of the exible ow line prob- lem, i.e., the budget constrained one, in order to determine the required num- ber of processors at each station along with the selection of the most eco- nomical process routes for products. since a number of parameters, such as due dates, the amount of available budgets and the cost of opting particular routes, are imprecise (fuzz...

The design of weight is one of the important parts in fuzzy decision making, as it would have a deep effect on the evaluation results. Entropy is one of the weight measure based on objective evaluation. Non--probabilistic-type entropy measures for fuzzy set and interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FS) have been developed and applied to weight measure. Since the entropy for (IT2FS) for decision making...

A clutch of '-isms' characterises the approach to consciousness which David Chalmers defends: dualism, epiphenomenalism, functionalism, anti-reductionism, and -probably -panpsychism. (The author would no doubt want 'naturalism' included in the list as well, but as we shall see, Chalmers' predilection to describe his theory as 'scientific' stretches credibility.) While the book does not, as far ...

Decision-making based on expert’s opinion by data envelopment analysis (DEA) models requires crisp number. However, the assumption of expert might not always be accurate. This paper introduces fuzzy DEA credibility constrained and relative closeness (RC) index to cope with uncertainty data. The proposed approach transforms traditional events using measure. Furthermore, RC was used increase disc...

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) are a promising approach for socio-ecological systems modelling. FCMs represent problem knowledge extracted from different stakeholders in the form of connected factors/variables with imprecise cause-effect relationships and many feedback loops. These typically large maps are condensed and aggregated to obtain a summary view of the system. However, representation, con...

Fixed charge solid transportation problems are formulated as profit maximization problems under a budget constraint at each destination. Here item is purchased in different depots at different prices. Accordingly the item is transported to different destinations from different depots using different vehicles. Unitsare sold from different destinations to the customers at different selling prices...