{"title":"A consensus process for hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations","authors":"Zhibin Wu","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337827","url":null,"abstract":"The recently proposed hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms sets (HFLTSs) are utilized to represent the expert's subjective preferences in a linguistic preference relation and therefore a hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relation (HFLPR) is constructed. This paper aims to present a consensus process to assist the experts in achieving a predefined consensus level in the case of HFLPRs. A possibility distribution based approach is introduced to deal with HFLTSs. Consensus degrees which assess the agreement among all the experts' preferences are defined on three levels: the pairs of alternatives level, the alternatives level and the preference relation level. A feedback mechanism based on the above consensus degrees is developed and the difference with the existing approach is discussed. The proposed consensus model is illustrated by a numerical example.","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":"122145925","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":"Approaches to interval type-2 fuzzy multiple attribute group decision making based on grey incidence analysis and FTP utility function","authors":"Jindong Qin, Junfeng Chu, Xinwang Liu, W. Pedrycz","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337823","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems based on grey system theory and utility theory to accommodate situations where attribute values take the form of interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FSs). Motivated by the idea of grey incidence analysis theory, we propose two new grey incidence degrees for aggregating the uncertain information and further extend the concept to accommodate interval type-2 fuzzy environment. Meanwhile, based on the flexible three parameter (FTP) utility function, we develop an interval type-2 fuzzy ranking weighted utility averaging (IT2FRWUA) operator, some desirable mathematical properties are discussed in detail. Then, we further integrate the proposed grey incidence degrees and the IT2FRWUA operator to develop two methods for handling MAGDM problems within the context of IT2FSs. Finally, some practical examples are provided to illustrate the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed methods.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"1 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":"131198316","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 ANP with interval type-2 fuzzy sets approach to evaluate enterprise technological innovation ability","authors":"Tong Wu, Xinwang Liu, Shuli Liu","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337987","url":null,"abstract":"In order to overcome the drawbacks of AHP in solving complex decision-making problems, ANP is applied in the evaluation of enterprise technology innovation ability. Due to Interval type-2 fuzzy sets can handle uncertainty of linguistic variables in a more flexible and precisely way than Type-1 fuzzy sets with their fuzzy membership functions, a fuzzy ANP method with interval type-2 fuzzy sets is proposed to evaluate the enterprise technology innovation ability. A new ranking method based on the centroid is applied in processing relationships between interval type-2 fuzzy sets. And the proposed method is used in the numerical examples and ranking results are obtained.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"79 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":"134253282","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":"Wavelet based fuzzy clustering technique for the extraction of road objects","authors":"Tejy Kinattukara, B. Verma","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337887","url":null,"abstract":"Detecting and recognizing road objects automatically is an important process in many applications such as traffic regulation and providing guidance for drivers and pedestrians. Fuzzy clustering using wavelets is proposed in this paper. Wavelets are used for pre-processing the image and the resulting image is then subjected to fuzzy c-means algorithm for clustering. After clustering, the image classification is done by an ensemble of multi-layer perceptron neural networks. This approach is used to classify road images into different road side objects like road, sky, and signs. A database using real-world roadside images from Transport and Main Roads (TMR) is used for evaluating the proposed approach. The results on the database using the proposed approach indicate that this approach using wavelets improves the recognition rate. This approach is compared with existing methods for segmentation and classification of road images.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"19 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132693009","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":"Circumcenter of centroid in ranking fuzzy number: A case of generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers","authors":"L. Abdullah, Fateen Najwa Azman","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337941","url":null,"abstract":"Many approaches have been proposed to quest appropriate methods in ranking fuzzy numbers. Due to the flexibility of fuzzy numbers, most of these methods are not able to calculate all kinds of ranking fuzzy numbers and some of them give inconsistent and counter intuitive results. As a result, the final ranking sometimes fails to discriminate fuzzy numbers effectively. This paper aims to propose a new method for ranking fuzzy numbers using the circumcenter of centroid with the hope to reduce the problem of indiscriminate in the ranking. The new method mainly considers the distance, the spread, the height and the area of fuzzy numbers to compute the ranking order. The calculation for the new method is derived from generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers and circumcenter concepts. A numerical example is given to illustrate the calculation more explicitly.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"73 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":"132866588","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 taxonomy for multiple attribute group decision making literature","authors":"Bilal Ervural, Özgür Kabak","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338114","url":null,"abstract":"The research activities on group decision making has dramatically increased in last decade. Especially the application of multiple attribute decision making methods to group decision making problems occupies a vast area in the related literature. However there is no systematical classification scheme for these researches. This paper presents a taxonomy for multiple attribute group decision making methods. It classifies top cited papers accordingly in order to show the state of the art and to identify future research directions. The results show that majority of the related studies uses fuzzy sets theory based methods.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"37 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":"130981715","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":"Adaptive interval type-2 fuzzy sliding mode controller design for flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles","authors":"Junlong Gao, Ruyi Yuan, J. Yi, Chengdong Li","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337828","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an adaptive interval type-2 fuzzy sliding mode controller, which is applied to flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicle (FAHV) longitudinal model, is designed based on interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems (IT2-FLS) and sliding mode control (SMC) theory. In order to get FAHV longitudinal model stably controlled, we decouple the model into velocity and altitude channels through output feedback linearization. Moreover, due to the severe uncertainties which mainly come from unpredictable varying aerodynamic interferences and mutual couplings in airframe flexible modes and those difficulties of computing nonlinear functions with high-order derivatives under practical conditions, we design a sliding mode controller to achieve system convergence and adopt IT2-FLS to estimate the nonlinear functions with bounded parameter uncertainties online for counteracting the tracking errors and suppressing flexible vibrations. The adaptive law of interval type-2 fuzzy sliding mode controller is derived through Lyapunov synthesis approach. Furthermore, we adopt tracking differentiator (TD) and nonlinear state observer (NSO) algorithms to generate the real-time derivatives and high-order approximate commands in velocity and altitude channels, respectively. Several comparisons have been done in this paper and the simulation results validate the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed controller.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"15 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":"133398774","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 Multilayer Fuzzy Cognitive Maps approach to the cloud adoption decision support problem","authors":"Andreas Christoforou, A. Andreou","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338056","url":null,"abstract":"As modern computing relies more and more on distributed solutions of services and resources over the cloud, the need of potential users to assess whether the transition from traditional software systems to the cloud would be to their benefit becomes even greater. Cloud vendors also seek ways to study beforehand the behavior of potential users with respect to their decision to adopt the cloud environment so as to take actions towards enhancing the positive side. Therefore, the study of the parameters forming the environment behind the cloud adoption decision is of paramount importance to both users and vendors. In this context the present paper proposes a multi-layer FCM approach which models a number of factors which play a decisive role to the cloud adoption issue and offers the means to study their influence. The factors are organized in different layers which focus on specific aspects of the cloud environment, something which, on one hand, enables tracking the causes for the decision outcome, and on the other offers the ability to study the dependencies between the leading determinants of the decision. The construction and analysis of the model is based on factors reported in the relevant literature and the utilization of experts' opinion. The efficacy and applicability of the proposed approach are demonstrated through four real-world experimental cases.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"89 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":"116745843","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}
Carmine Brenga, Antonio Celotto, V. Loia, S. Senatore
{"title":"Fuzzy linguistic aggregation to synthesize the Hourglass of Emotions","authors":"Carmine Brenga, Antonio Celotto, V. Loia, S. Senatore","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7338020","url":null,"abstract":"Emotions govern all the human actions and play a key role in decision-making processes. Capturing sentiments and opinions hidden in the written (natural) language is a key activity which attracts both the scientific community, by leading to many novel challenges, and the business world, by supporting market behavior and prediction. Sentiment analysis and Sentic Computing are two interrelated research trends that, by exploiting the common sense in the natural language, try to distill human feelings in the textual data.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"129 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":"115046791","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 big-data processing framework for uncertainties in transportation data","authors":"Jie Yang, Jun Ma","doi":"10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2015.7337843","url":null,"abstract":"Transportation infrastructure takes a primary role in urban development planning. To better facilitate or understand the infrastructure status and demands, a huge amount of transportation data such as traffic flow counts has been collected from numerous transportation monitoring systems. Making full use of harvested data samples to discover important patterns has become an increasingly appealing research topic, in which a sophisticated and uncertainty-processing framework is required. In this paper, a big-data processing framework is introduced to analyse the transportation data, particularly taking the classification problem of the parking occupation status as an illustrative example. Three modules are implemented to crawl the raw records, generate high-level features, and apply the machine learning algorithm for classification. In addition, the fuzzification algorithm is also introduced to quantify the key attributes of the data, which helps in removing the data redundancy and inconsistency. The proposed framework then is evaluated using a real-world dataset collected from twelve car parks in a university. Simulation results show that the proposed framework performs well with a convincing classification accuracy.","PeriodicalId":185191,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE)","volume":"117 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":"133189115","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}