Exhortation to Fuzzy Engineering

Application of Fuzzy Modeling to Earthquake Engineering: Seismic Performance of Cylindrical Tanks

The fuzzy logic concept provides a natural way of dealing with problems in which the source of imprecision is an absence of sharply defined criteria rather than the presence of random variables. The fuzzy approach considers cases where uncertainties play a role in the control mechanism of the concerned phenomena. Fuzzy modeling includes fuzzification, fuzzy analysis and defuzzification. In this...

Fuzzy Perspectives in Traffic Engineering

This paper presents an outlook on the perspectives of applying fuzzy logic techniques in traffic and transportation systems analysis and control. To this end, the theoretical and methodological principles of the fuzzy logic approach are outlined. An overview is given of the fuzzy logic applications in the transportation and traffic-engineering field, especially in the areas of estimation and pr...

Fuzzy Specification in Software Engineering

Judging quality of any decision making procedure is a key problem whenever there is no possibility of developing a sequence of experiments allowing some kind of ratio relative to good results. It may be the case that we have only chances for a unique experiment or no similar experiences are available, but it may be also the case that no standard experiment allows the observation of such a good ...

Fuzzy Transform and Its Applications to Problems in Engineering Practice

Fuzzy inference to risk assessment on nuclear engineering systems

This paper presents a nuclear case study, in which a fuzzy inference system (FIS) is used as alternative approach in risk analysis. The main objective of this study is to obtain an understanding of the aging process of an important nuclear power system and how it affects the overall plant safety. This approach uses the concept of a pure fuzzy logic system where the fuzzy rule base consists of a...