Supply chainmanagement is an increasingly important organizational concern, and proper evaluation of suppliers constitutes one essential element of supply chain success. Continuous evaluation of a particular supplier becomesmore important considering the fact that in most industries the cost of raw materials and component parts constitutes the main cost of a product, such that in some cases it ...

In this work we consider the application of an adaptive neural network control for a class of single input single output non linear systems. The method uses a neural network system of Radial Basis Function (RBF) type to approximate the feedback linearization law and a fuzzy inference system of Mamdani type to estimate the control signal error between the ideal unknown control signal and the act...

This paper presents a fuzzy system for reliability-based power distribution network planning. The proposed Mamdani type inference with subsequent application of the Bellman-Zadeh decision-making method is used to evaluate reliability line feeders as criteria Unplanned outages components, Energy Not Supplied (ENS) and age lines are input variables fuzzified using triangular functions. model was ...

−A fuzzy inference system (FIS), which could classify the state of effluent quality if it was high or not and identify visually the reasons for the high effluent quality in municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), was developed in this study. The decision tree algorithm and fuzzy technique were applied in the development of this system. By applying the classification and regression tree (...

The tradeoff between accuracy and interpretability in fuzzy modeling has shifted into focus in last few years. This paper aims at improving accuracy of linguistic models while maintaining a good interpretability. A new gradient-based method, extended version of Jager approach, is proposed for the optimization of transparent Mamdani systems. The advantage of Mamdani systems if compared to 0 orde...

Background: In this research, a decision making system, based on fuzzy inference mechanism as proposed by Mamdani, is presented. Literature suggests that there is a lack of consistency among dentists in choosing treatment plan(s). So, this research work aims to facilitate the dentist decide the treatment plan(s) of the broken tooth. Methods: An expert system based on fuzzy logic has been design...

The classical analysis of real time systems tries to ensure that the instance of every task finishes before its absolute deadline (strict guarantee). The probabilistic approach tends to estimate the probability that it will happen. The deterministic timed behavior is an important parameter for analysing the robustness of the system. Most of related works are mainly based on the determinism of t...

A great deal of interest has been shown in the literature in the development of new Non-Destructive Techniques (NDT). In particular, there is increasing interest in detecting, evaluating and locating cracks as well as the source of the impact causing these cracks. Fuzzy logic was shown to be useful in crack detection, and severity of crack in materials. In this paper Fuzzy logic has been used i...