In present competitive environment, it is necessary for companies to evaluate design time and effort at the early stage of product development. However, there is somewhat lacking in systemic analytical methods for product design time (PDT). For this end, this paper explores an intelligent method to evaluate the PDT. At the early development stage, designers are short of sufficient product infor...

In this paper, the operation of a fuzzy predictive filter used to provide high robustness against feedback signal noise in a fuzzy logic (FL)-based angle estimation algorithm for the switched reluctance motor is described. The fuzzy predictive filtering method combines both FL-based time-series prediction, as well as a heuristic knowledge-based algorithm to detect and discard feedback signal er...

Several useful models have been developed by the software engineering community to elucidate the periodic growth of life cycle and calculate the effort of cost estimation in a precise manner. One of the commonly used machine learning techniques is the analogy method that cannot handle the categorical variables efficiently. In general, project attributes of cost estimation are often measured in ...

This paper proposes an approach to active fault tolerant control (AFTC) of a variable-speed wind turbine subject to actuator faults. The actuator faults in the turbine pitch system and generator system are considered in this work. Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy modeling of the combined driver train, pitch and generator systems is proposed to account for nonlinearities in the dynamics. Moving horizon...

Employing estimation models in software engineering help in envisaging some essential traits of future entities like software development effort, software reliability and programmers productivity. Of these models, the one that supports the estimation of software effort has drawn substantial attention currently to carry out researches. Estimation by analogy is one among the interesting technique...

Software Cost Estimation with resounding reliability, productivity and development effort is a challenging and onerous task. This has incited the software community to give much needed thrust and delve into extensive research in software effort estimation for evolving sophisticated methods. Estimation by analogy is one of the expedient techniques in software effort estimation field. However, th...

After introducing and developing fuzzy set theory, a lot of studies have been done to combine statistical methods and fuzzy set theory. This works, called fuzzy statistics, have been developed in some branches. In this article we review essential works on fuzzy estimation, fuzzy hypotheses testing, fuzzy regression, fuzzy Bayesian statistics, and some relevant fields. Zusammenfassung: Nach Entw...

Traditionally, the classes in thematic maps have been treated as crisp sets, using classical set theory. In this formulation, map classes are assumed to be mutually exclusive and exhaustive. This approach limits the ability of thematic maps to represent the continuum of variation found in most landscapes. Substitution of fuzzy sets allows more  exibility for treatment of map classes in the are...

This paper presents a hybrid adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), computer simulation and time series algorithm to estimate and predict electricity consumption estimation. The difficulty with electricity consumption estimation modeling approach such as time series is the reason for proposing the hybrid approach of this study. The algorithm is ideal for uncertain, ambiguous and...