Expansive clayey soils are highly moisture sensitive with respect to stress, deformation and strength. These soils exhibit extreme variation in deformation such as heaving, loss of shear strength under certain Moisture Content and settlement and shrinkage as the Moisture Content alters. Swelling is the process of increase in volume of soil that occurs during its interaction with water. Expansiv...

Many approaches have been developed for academic performance evaluation using various fuzzy techniques. Initial methods rely greatly on experts’ specification of analytical parameters, without making use of valuable information embedded in collected data. Given this insight, fuzzy rule induction has recently been studied as a data-driven alternative. Despite its efficiency and reported performa...

For modeling the topological relations between spatial objects, the concepts of a bound on the intersection of the boundary and interior, and the boundary and exterior are defined in this paper based on the newly developed computational fuzzy topology. Furthermore, the qualitative measures for the intersections are specified based on the a-cut induced fuzzy topology, which are (Aa‘qA)(x),12a an...

this paper has revised the combined model of chan & qi with supply chain operations reference (scor) .this combined model with hierarchical structure, has three levels and seven criteria that some criteria are quantitative (cost, use of source) and others of them are qualitative (quality, flexibility, tangible, validity and innovation). in order to improvement of this model, this paper has comb...

Measurement systems analysis (MSA) has been applied in different aspect of industrial assessments to evaluate various types of quantitative and qualitative measures. Qualification of a measurement system depends on two important features: accuracy and precision. Since the capability of each quality system is severely related to the capability of its measurement system, the weakness of the two...

Abstract This paper describes the research procedures adopted in developing a triangular fuzzy number scale based on semantic of MACBETH (Measuring Attractiveness by Categorical Based Evaluation Technique). The objective was to mathematically treat uncertainty and subjectivity linguistic variables used assess decision problem. A matrix initially obtained maker’s assessment given context analysi...

In industrial continuous cooking systems, yields are seldom measured online. In this study, profiles for lignin, carbohydrates and total yield are constructed using physical model. The yield profiles are utilized for two kinds of digesters: conventional and Downflow Lo-Solids cooking processes. The total yield is also predicted using fuzzy clustering model. Copyright c ° IFAC2005

In this paper, the learning of qualitative twocompartment metabolic models is studied under the conditions of different types and numbers of hidden variables. For each condition, all the experiments, each of which takes one of the subsets of the complete qualitative states as training data, are tested one by one. In order to conduct the experiments more efficiently, a backtracking algorithm wit...