A. Bilgin, H. Hagras, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi, A. Malibari, M. J. Alhaddad
{"title":"Employing an Enhanced Interval Approach to encode words into Linear General Type-2 fuzzy sets for Computing With Words applications","authors":"A. Bilgin, H. Hagras, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi, A. Malibari, M. J. Alhaddad","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337848","url":null,"abstract":"In 1996, Zadeh coined Computing With Words (CWWs) to be a methodology in which words are used instead of numbers for computing and reasoning. One of the main challenges which faced the CWWs paradigm has been modelling words adequately. Mendel has pointed out that the CWWs paradigm should employ type-2 fuzzy logic to model words. This paper proposes employing an Enhanced Interval Approach (EIA) to create Linear General Type-2 (LGT2) fuzzy sets from Interval Type-2 (IT2) fuzzy sets to encode words for CWWs applications. We have performed experiments on 18 words belonging to 3 different linguistic variables (having 6 linguistic terms each). Interval data has been collected from 17 subjects and 18 linguistic terms have been modeled with IT2 fuzzy sets using EIA. The proposed conversion approach uses several key points within the parameters of IT2 fuzzy sets to redesign the linguistic variable using LGT2 fuzzy sets. Both IT2 and LGT2 fuzzy sets have been evaluated within a CWWs Framework, which aims to mimic the ability of humans to communicate and manipulate perceptions via words. The comparison results show that LGT2 fuzzy sets can be better than IT2 fuzzy sets in mimicking human reasoning as well as learning and adaptation since the progressive Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) values for LGT2 based CWWs Framework converge faster and are lower than those for IT2 based CWWs Framework.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"9 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114040550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Khalid Almohammadi, Bo Yao, Abdulkareem Alzahrani, H. Hagras, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi
{"title":"An interval type-2 fuzzy logic based system for improved instruction within intelligent e-learning platforms","authors":"Khalid Almohammadi, Bo Yao, Abdulkareem Alzahrani, H. Hagras, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338050","url":null,"abstract":"E-learning is becoming increasingly more popular. However, for such platforms (where the students and tutors are geographically separated), it is necessary to estimate the degree of students' engagement with the course contents. Such feedback is highly important and useful for assessing the teaching quality and adjusting the teaching delivery in large-scale online learning platforms. When the number of attendees is large, it is essential to obtain overall engagement feedback, but it is also challenging to do so because of the high levels of uncertainty associated with the environments and students. To handle such uncertainties, we present a type-2 fuzzy logic based system using visual RGB-D features including head pose direction and facial expressions captured from a low-cost but robust 3D camera (Kinect v2) to estimate the engagement degree of the students for both remote and on-site education. This system enriches another self- learning type-2 fuzzy logic system which provides the instructors with suggestions to vary their teaching means to suit the level of course students and improve the course instruction and delivery. This proposed dynamic e-learning environment involves on-site students, distance students, and a teacher who delivers the lecture to all attending onsite and remote students. The rules are learned from the students' behavior and the system is continuously updated to give the teacher the ability to adapt the lecture delivery instructional approach to varied learners' engagement levels. The efficiency of the proposed system has been evaluated through various real-world experiments in the University of Essex iClassroom on a sample of thirty students and six teachers. These experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed interval type-2 fuzzy logic based system to handle the faced uncertainties and produce superior improved average learners' engagements when compared to type-1 fuzzy systems and nonadaptive systems.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125210813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuzzy rule based approach with z-numbers for selection of alternatives using TOPSIS","authors":"A. M. Yaakob, A. Gegov","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337862","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of ability to handle vagueness in the decision making practice has been main drawback of the conventional TOPSIS. Thus, type 1, type 2 and Z fuzzy sets have been applied with conventional TOPSIS to allow experts to incorporate imperfect information in analysis. However the existing methods do not take into account the influence degree of decision makers. Hence, a novel modification of TOPSIS method to handle vagueness and imperfect information in decision making practice is presented. The concept of Z- numbers is used to present decision maker's reliability. Furthermore, a hybrid analysis of decision making process that requires the use of human sensitivity to reflect influence degree of decision maker can be often expressed by a fuzzy rule base. The ranking based on proposed method is validated comparatively using Spearmen rho correlation coefficient. The result shows proposed method outperforms the existing non rule based version of TOPSIS in terms of ranking performance.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122528650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Yoon, Hye-Young Jung, Seung-Hoe Choi, Woo-Joo Lee
{"title":"An application of F-transform to a regression model based on Theil's method","authors":"J. Yoon, Hye-Young Jung, Seung-Hoe Choi, Woo-Joo Lee","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337857","url":null,"abstract":"Regression Analysis is an analyzing method of regression model to explain the statistical relationship between explanatory variables and response variables. This paper propose a new regression analysis applying Theil's method based on F-transform. The main advantage of Theil's method in regression is the robustness, which means that it is not sensitive to outliers. The proposed method uses the median of rates of increments which are obtained from F-transform, based all possible pairs of F-transformed data in order to estimate the coefficients of fuzzy regression model. An example is given to show that the proposed regression analysis applying Theil's method based on F-transform is more robust than the least squares estimation (LSE) and even more robust than the original Theil's method.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121854463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A software tool to efficiently manage the energy consumption of HPC clusters","authors":"A. Cocaña-Fernández, L. Sánchez, J. Ranilla","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338079","url":null,"abstract":"Today, High Performance Computing clusters (HPC) are an essential tool owing to they are an excellent platform for solving a wide range of problems through parallel and distributed applications. Nonetheless, HPC clusters consume large amounts of energy, which combined with notably increasing electricity prices are having an important economical impact, forcing owners to reduce operation costs. In this work we propose a software, named EECluster, to reduce the high energy consumption of HPC clusters. EECluster works with both OGE/SGE and PBS/TORQUE resource management systems and automatically tunes its decision-making mechanism based on a machine learning approach. The quality of the obtained results using this software are evaluated by means of experiments made using actual workloads from the Scientific Modelling Cluster at Oviedo University and the academic-cluster used by the Oviedo University for teaching high performance computing subjects.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132750097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chiranjib Saha, Debdipta Goswami, S. Saha, A. Konar, A. Lekova, A. Nagar
{"title":"A novel gesture driven fuzzy interface system for car racing game","authors":"Chiranjib Saha, Debdipta Goswami, S. Saha, A. Konar, A. Lekova, A. Nagar","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337954","url":null,"abstract":"The recently developed Kinect sensor has opened a new horizon to Human-Computer Interface (HCI) and its native connection with Microsoft's product line of Xbox 360 and Xbox One video game consoles makes completely hands-free control in next generation of gaming. Games that requires a lot of degree of freedoms, especially the driving control of a car in racing games is best suitable to be driven by gestures, as the use of simple buttons does not scale to the increased number of assistive, comfort, and infotainment functions. In this paper, we propose a Mamdani type-I fuzzy inference system based data processing module which effectively takes into account the dependence of actual steering angle with the distance of two palm positions and angle generated with respect to the sagittal plane. The FIS output variable controls the duration of a virtual “key-pressed” event which mocks the users pressing of actual keys assigned to control car direction in the original game. The acceleration and brake(deceleration) of the vehicle is controlled using the relative displacement of left and right feet. The proposed experimental setup, interfacing Kinect and a desktop based racing game, has shown that the virtual driving environment can be easily applied to any games belonging to this particular genre.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132289713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fuzzy route planning model for public transportation network","authors":"Elvin N. Nasibov, A. C. Diker, E. Nasibov","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337906","url":null,"abstract":"A fuzzy route planning model based on preference degrees of stops is proposed in this study. The proposed model might also be evaluated as an intelligent system that simulates human behavior in selecting a stop to use in transportation aim. Definitions of fuzzy stop-stop, stop-line and line-line neighborhood relations are introduced. Some criteria such as the walking distance, the count of boarding at the stop and the count of lines passed through the stop are used to determine the fuzzy preference degree of a stop.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134415247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dhivya Sampath Kumar, R. B. Menon, D. Srinivasan, T. Reindl
{"title":"An adaptive fuzzy based relay for protection of distribution networks","authors":"Dhivya Sampath Kumar, R. B. Menon, D. Srinivasan, T. Reindl","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338112","url":null,"abstract":"The high penetration of Distributed Generators (DGs) increases the need for monitoring and protection of the distribution system. The stochastic nature of the DGs may result in varying fault currents seen by the conventional over-current protection relays and thereby disturb the coordination of the relays. This necessitates an effective numerical relay that can capture the changes in the varying nature of DGs and take effective decisions according to the changing network conditions. Hence, an adaptive fuzzy relay, comprising of a fuzzy inference module and a neural network learning module, has been developed for deciding the optimal protection settings in the numerical relay corresponding to the changes in the network scenarios. A systematic comparison of the proposed adaptive fuzzy relay with conventional relay has been presented on a standard IEEE-test distribution system. The simulation results verify that the adaptive fuzzy relay is able to achieve the desired protection settings using a closed-loop approach.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134599649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Zanotelli, R. Reiser, S. Cavalheiro, Luciana Foss, B. Bedregal
{"title":"Towards robustness and duality analysis of intuitionistic fuzzy aggregations","authors":"R. Zanotelli, R. Reiser, S. Cavalheiro, Luciana Foss, B. Bedregal","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338076","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the robustness of intuitionistic fuzzy connectives in fuzzy reasoning. Starting with an evaluation of the sensitivity in representable fuzzy negations, we apply the results in the intuitionistic (S, N)-implication class and its dual construction. As the main contribution, the paper formally states that the robustness preserves the projection functions in this class and corresponding dual operators.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121587983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of criterion weights techniques in TOPSIS method of multi-criteria decision making in crisp and intuitionistic fuzzy domains","authors":"F. Dammak, Leila Baccour, A. Alimi","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338116","url":null,"abstract":"In MCDM problems some criteria (attributes) having different importance are used to determine a best alternative from many. Thus, different weight methods exist in literature to evaluate the importance of each criteria. In this work TOPSIS, multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method is applied using crisp data set with different techniques of weight proposed in literature. Therefore, intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS is applied on intuitionistic fuzzy data set (IFS) using methods of weights existing in literature. The latter are intuitionistic generalization of crisp weights. We propose to extend two methods of weight computation, the Standard Deviation (SD) and the preference selection index (PSI) to intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Obtained results are compared to assess the impact of methods of weight in the result of decision making methods.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129679831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}