In interval type-2 fuzzy logic controllers (IT2-FLCs), the output processing includes type reduction and defuzzification. Recently, researchers have proposed many efficient type reduction algorithms, but there are no effective schemes to improve the output of defuzzification. This paper presents a geneticalgorithm-based type reduction algorithm, which reduces the type of an interval type-2 fuzz...

W read with interest the Commentary of Mehrotra et al on modeling the organ allocation system and wish to reply to critiques of the process and the methods used by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to establish more equitable liver allocation. The Department of Health and Human Services and Health Resources and Services Administration have long since given a mandate, in t...

This paper deals with a bi-objective hybrid no-wait flowshop scheduling problem minimizing the makespan and total weighted tardiness, in which we consider transportation times between stages. Obtaining an optimal solution for this type of complex, large-sized problem in reasonable computational time by using traditional approaches and optimization tools is extremely difficult. This paper presen...

Given an undirected network G(V,A,c) and a perfect matching M of G, the inverse maximum perfect matching problem consists of modifying minimally the elements of c so that M becomes a maximum perfect matching with respect to the modified vector. In this article, we consider the inverse problem when the modifications are measured by the weighted bottleneck-type Hamming distance. We propose an alg...

in this paper, an analytical method called the parametric iteration method (pim) is presented for solving the second-order singular ivps of lane-emden type, and its local convergence is discussed. since it is often useful to have an approximate analytical solution to describe the lane-emden type equa- tions, especially for ones where the closed-form solutions do not exist at all, therefore, an ...

the purpose of this paper is to study the convergence and the almost sure t-stability of the modied sp-type random iterative algorithm in a separable banach spaces. the bochner in-tegrability of andom xed points of this kind of random operators, the convergence and the almost sure t-stability for this kind of generalized asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive random mappings are obtained. our resu...

The accuracy of target position detection in IR seeker depends on the accuracy of tracking error signal (TES) extraction from seeker Field of View (FOV). The type of reticle inside the seeker determines the output modulation signal that carries the TES. In this paper, the stationary wagon wheel reticle is used, which makes the type of the output signal as FM modulation in the linear region of F...