introduction bacterial meningitis is a known infectious disease which occurs at early ages and should be promptly diagnosed and treated. bacterial and aseptic meningitis are hard to be distinguished. therefore, physicians should be highly informed and experienced in this area. the main aim of this study was to suggest a system for distinguishing between bacterial and aseptic meningitis, using f...

image classification is an issue which utilizes image processing, pattern recognition and classification methods. automatic medical image classification is a progressive area in image classification and it expected to be more developed in the future. due to this fact that automatic diagnosis which use intelligent methods such as medical image classification can assist pathologists by providing ...

This paper describes the development of a fuzzy decision support system (FDSS) for the assessment of risk in E-commerce (EC) development. A Web-based prototype FDSS is suggested to assist EC project managers in identifying potential EC risk factors and the corresponding project risks. A risk analysis model for EC development using a fuzzy set approach is proposed and incorporated into the FDSS....

The main purpose of this study is to develop a Fuzzy inference system to predict bank profitability in Iran and help investors in their investment decisions. For this purpose, the main effective variables on bank profitability, including facilities, deposits, manpower costs, and assets were recognized. In the next step, the data of 13 banks were collected from 2001 to 2011. The membership funct...

using current employee performance data to predict the future behavior of the applicants is an interesting area which can broaden new horizons of knowledge lay in the organization. because of inherent ambiguity and uncertainty, cognitive limitations of the human mind make unknown behaviors of very complex systems difficult to predict. as a consequence, it is necessary to model the imprecise mod...

This paper presents a novel rule-based system for thinning. The unique feature that distinguishes our thinning system is that it thins symbols to their central lines. This means that the shape of the symbol is preserved. It also means that the method is rotation invariant. The system has 20 rules in its inference engine. These rules are applied simultaneously to each pixel in the image. Therefo...

In this paper, we present a deductive object-oriented database system, called X-DEVICE, WHICH is used as a repository for XML documents. X-DEVICE employs a powerful rule-based query language for intelligently querying stored Web documents and data and publishing the results. XML documents are stored into the OODB by automatically mapping the DTD to an object schema. XML elements are treated eit...

The development of component-based software systems opens the possibility of using model-based diagnosis techniques for large software systems. We have developed a simple monitoring system based on the modeling of the external behavior of software components by Petri nets. With each component is associated a local controller which observes the messages received and sent by the component and com...

Images of fuzzy sets under fuzzy relations have been investigated mainly in two contexts: On the one hand, mostly under the term “full image” [5], they can be regarded as very general tools for fuzzy inference, leading to the so-called “compositional rule of inference” [1, 5]. On the other hand, under the term “extensional hull”, the image of a fuzzy set under a fuzzy equivalence relation yield...