{"title":"A personalized Web search engine using fuzzy concept network with link structure","authors":"Kyung-Joong Kim, Sung-Bae Cho","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.944231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.944231","url":null,"abstract":"There has been much research on link-based search engines such as google and clever. They use link structure to find precision result. Usually, a link-based search engine produces higher-quality results than a text-based search engine. However, they have difficulty in producing the result fit to a specific user's preference. Personalization is required to support a more appropriate result. Among many techniques, the fuzzy concept network based on a user profile can represent a user's subjective interest properly. The paper presents another search engine that uses the fuzzy concept network to personalize the results from a link-based search method. The fuzzy concept network based on a user profile reorders five results of the link-based search engine, and the system provides a personalized high-quality result. Experimental results with three subjects indicate that the system developed searches not only relevant but also personalized Web pages on a user's preference.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127382681","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 design methodology of constraint-based fuzzy logic controller","authors":"D. Chiang, R. Lai","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943728","url":null,"abstract":"Constraint-based fuzzy logic controllers (CFLCs) have been recognized as a unified framework of control system design. Arbitrary types of constraints are allowed in a CFLC to specify the desired states of a plant. The purpose of this paper is to present a design methodology of CFLCs, transforming the intention of a control system into a network of fuzzy constraints. The task of designing a CFLC could be viewed as a process of incremental constraint-based problem-solving, namely a fuzzy constraint refinement problem. Specifically, a schema could be derived for the configuration of a CFLC; after that, constraints can be gradually added (or removed) into the schema until the performance requirements are met. Based on this framework, we have successfully designed a CFLC for modeling a simplified rotary cement kiln that has both nonlinear and time varying characteristics of a plant.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127467932","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 control of an autonomous helicopter","authors":"B. Kadmiry, D. Driankov","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943669","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a horizontal velocity controller for the unmanned helicopter APID MK-III developed by Scandicraft AB in Sweden. We use a novel approach to the design consisting of two steps: 1) Mamdani-type of fuzzy rules to compute each of the desired horizontal velocity corresponding to the desired values for the attitude angles and the main rotor collective pitch; and 2) a Takagi-Sugeno controller is used to regulate the attitude angles so that the helicopter achieves its desired horizontal velocities at a desired altitude. The performance of the combined linguistic/model-based controller is evaluated in simulation and shows that the proposed design method achieves its intended purpose.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124822073","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 method to adjust observed transportation data: application to passenger counts on a transit line","authors":"S. Kikuchi, D. Mijkovic","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943685","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic volume is a critical piece of information in traffic engineering and transportation planning. The observed values, however, are usually not precise; and hence, adjustment is necessary for them to satisfy various physical constraints, e.g. inflow = out-flow at every junction, in order to make them presentable. We propose a procedure that adjusts the observed values so that they meet the basic physical principle, such as the conservation of flow, given the subjective information about the characters of the observed values Adjustment is based on fuzzy optimization in which the observed values and basic knowledge about the relationship among the observed volumes are considered fuzzy. Fuzzy linear programming is used to find the adjusted values based on the max-min principle. The method is applied to estimate transit ridership at individual stops.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125052109","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}
James F. Peters, S. Ramanna, A. Skowron, J. Stepaniuk, Z. Suraj
{"title":"Sensor fusion: a rough granular approach","authors":"James F. Peters, S. Ramanna, A. Skowron, J. Stepaniuk, Z. Suraj","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943748","url":null,"abstract":"The paper introduces an application of a particular form of rough granular computing in fusing (combining) sensor readings. The intent of the paper is to describe a system that engages in a form of knowledge discovery based on sensor fusion. Such a system responds to sensor outputs in a manner that is selective, determines the relevance of each sensor in a classification effort, and constructs information granules computationally useful in arriving at a decision (proposed solution to a problem) in a problem-solving system. A sensor is a device that responds to each stimulus by converting its measured input to some form of usable output. Relevance of a sensor is computed with a rough integral that computes a form of ordered weighted average of sensor values. The construction of an information granule depends on the selection of a threshold for sensor values. Only those sensors with rough integral values approaching a selected threshold are fused (i.e., used to construct a granule). The contribution of the paper is the introduction of a sensor fusion method based on rough integration. By way of practical application, an approach to fusion of homogeneous sensors deemed relevant in a classification effort is considered.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125080416","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 term-based algorithm for hierarchical clustering of Web documents","authors":"A. Schenker, Mark Last, A. Kandel","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943719","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce the novel class hierarchy construction algorithm (CHCA) in order to create hierarchical clusterings of Web documents. Unlike most clustering methods, CHCA operates on nominal data (the words occurring in each document) and it differs from other hierarchical clustering techniques in that it uses the object-oriented concept of inheritance to create the parent/child relationship between clusters. A prototype system has been developed using CHCA to create cluster hierarchies from web search results returned by conventional search engines. CHCA, without any guidance, creates term-based clusters from the contents of the retrieved pages and assigns each page to a cluster; the clusters correspond to topics and sub-topics in the investigated domain. The performance of our system is compared with a similar web search clustering system (Vivisimo).","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125114186","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":"Self-consciousness and emotion for a pet robot with structured intelligence","authors":"N. Kubota, F. Kojima, T. Fukuda","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943667","url":null,"abstract":"The pet robots require several capabilities such as perceiving, acting, surviving, and communicating with human. The communication is an important aspect for the owner to establish a friendliness with the pet robot. Furthermore, an internal model independent of environmental states is also important, because the pet robot should be seen to be alive. Therefore, this paper discusses the issues of emotions and self-consciousness for a pet robot. We consider two assumptions about self-consciousness. First, the self-consciousness is activated when a temporal change of perceptual information is relatively big. Second, the self-consciousness is activated when the predicting perceptual information is different from the actual perceptual information. Furthermore, we discuss the unit of the behavior using a modular neural network for robotic systems. We conduct several computer simulations and experiments based on these assumptions.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123598949","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":"Classification and clustering of granular data","authors":"A. Bargiela, W. Pedrycz","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.943807","url":null,"abstract":"Information granules are formed to reduce the complexity of the description of real-world systems. The improved generality of information granules is attained through sacrificing some of the numerical precision of point-data. In this study we consider a hyperbox-based clustering and classification of granular data, and discuss detailed criteria for the assessment of the quality of the combined classification and clustering. The robustness of the criteria is assessed on both synthetic data and real-life data from the domain of traffic control.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"52 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123706772","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":"Applications of fuzzy sets in personalization for e-commerce","authors":"Vivek Jain, R. Krishnapuram","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.944262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.944262","url":null,"abstract":"Personalization is central to business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce. In this paper, we formulate the main problems of B2C e-commerce. We suggest a modular architecture for a personalized e-commerce system, and describe some ways in which fuzzy sets can play a role.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126642655","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":"L-R fuzzy numbers and quantifiers in type-two fuzzy sets","authors":"L. Jang, J. Jeon","doi":"10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.944300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.944300","url":null,"abstract":"We define concepts of some set-theoretical operations of L-R fuzzy numbers and discuss some properties of these operations. By using these properties, we define a concept of cardinality of a type-two fuzzy set and discuss some results of type-two fuzzy cardinalities.","PeriodicalId":227374,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Joint 9th IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference (Cat. No. 01TH8569)","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116151395","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}