Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs) are widely used to handle uncertainty and imprecision in decision making. However, in more complicated environment, it is difficult to express the uncertain information by an IVIFS with considering the decision-making preference. Hence, this paper proposes a group generalized interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy soft set (G-GIVIFSS) which conta...

In this paper, we study the problem of power efficient tracking interval management for distributed target tracking wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We first analyze the performance of a distributed target tracking network with one moving object, using a quantitative mathematical analysis. We show that previously proposed algorithms are efficient only for constant average velocity objects howev...

The numerical computation of the exponentiation of a real matrix has been intensively studied. The main objective of a good numerical method is to deal with round-off errors and computational cost. The situation is more complicated when dealing with interval matrices exponentiation: Indeed, the main problem will now be the dependency loss of the different occurrences of the variables due to int...

Reconfiguration, by exchanging the functional links between the elements of the system, represents one of the most important measures which can improve the operational performance of a distribution system. Besides, reclosers use to eliminate transient faults, faults isolation, network management and enhance reliability to reduce customer outages. For load uncertainty a new method based on proba...

T paper is concerned with the computation of the interval availability (proportion of time in a time interval in which the system is up) distribution of a fault-tolerant system modeled by a finite (homogeneous) continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC). General-purpose methods for performing that computation tend to be very expensive when the CTMC and the time interval are large. Based on a previousl...

In this work we will show how non-qualified electronic signatures and time stamps can be efficiently enhanced in order to equip them with similar features as qualified ones. In particular we will show how non-qualified electronic signatures can be used in business processes which require the written form. Furthermore we will show how to construct ”interval-qualified” (IQ) time stamps which may ...

This report presents a new analytic method for checking the Schur stability of interval polynomial matrix (polynomials whose coefficients are interval matrices). In the suggested method, the interval Markov matrices of the interval polynomial matrix are used to assess its stability. The validity of the suggested method is illustrated through numerical examples. The proposed technique is algebra...

In this paper we investigate the effects of the asynchronism of user signals in the uplink of a spread spectrum multi-carrier multiple access (SS-MC-MA) system. Different propagation delays due to different distances between the mobile transmitters and their base station cause asynchronous arrivals of the uplink signals in addition to multipath propagation. The proposed uplink SS-MC-MA scheme u...

The subject of this paper is a new approach to symbolic regression. Other publications on symbolic regression use genetic programming. This paper describes an alternative method based on Pareto simulated annealing. Our method is based on linear regression for the estimation of constants. Interval arithmetic is applied to ensure the consistency of a model. To prevent overfitting, we merit a mode...