One of the main challenges for transportation engineers is the consideration of pedestrian safety as the most vulnerable aspect of the transport system. In many countries around the world, a large number of accidents recorded by the police are composed of accidents involving pedestrians and vehicles, for example when pedestrians may be struck by passing vehicles when crossing the street. Carefu...

designing an effective criterion for selecting the best rule is a major problem in theprocess of implementing fuzzy learning classifier (flc) systems. conventionally confidenceand support or combined measures of these are used as criteria for fuzzy rule evaluation. in thispaper new entities namely precision and recall from the field of information retrieval (ir)systems is adapted as alternative...

background and objectives: surgical cancelation is a significant source of time and resource waste, patientsafety risk, and stress for patients and their families. in this study, a risk management-based approach is developed to prioritize factors contributing to surgical cancellation. methods: factors leading to surgical cancellation were comprehensively classified based on literature review.a...

In today’s changing environment two properties are required to service namely good relation with customers and service quality. Nowadays no organization can get great achievement unless it can attract sufficient customers providing better service quality is important for service firms. This paper proposes a novel combined approach utilizing group decision making process to evaluate and rank cri...

In recent years, the use of hybrid soft computing methods has shown that in various applications the synergism of several techniques is superior to a single technique. For example, the use of a neural fuzzy system and an evolutionary fuzzy system hybridises the approximate reasoning mechanism of fuzzy systems with the learning capabilities of neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. Evoluti...

When individual classifiers are combined appropriately, a statistically significant increase in classification accuracy is usually obtained. Multiple classifier systems are the result of combining several individual classifiers. Following Breiman’s methodology, in this paper a multiple classifier system based on a “forest” of fuzzy decision trees, i.e., a Fuzzy Random Forest, is proposed. This ...

In sensory analysis a panel of assessors gives scores to blocks of sensory attributes for profiling products, thus yielding a three-way table crossing assessors, attributes and products. In this context, it is important to evaluate the panel performance as well as to synthesize the scores into a global assessment to investigate differences between products. Recently, a combined approach of fuzz...

Abstract In this paper, a stability control approach of flexible joint robot (FJR) based T-S fuzzy model using fuzzy Lyapunov function is proposed. First, the Takagi and Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model is employed to approximate the flexible joint robot, then a fuzzy controller is developed based on parallel distributed compensation principle (PDC). The non-quadratic stability conditions for the flexi...

This paper presents an on-line fuzzy tuning scheme for indirect field-orientation (IFO)-controlled induction machine drives. A fuzzy controller is used to regulate the speed, and another two fuzzy compensators are combined to correct detuning of field orientation. Since detuning effects of the IFO induction machine drive is minimized by the new fuzzy control scheme, the induction machine can ac...

Combined with weight of samples and kernel function, fuzzy clustering method with generalized entropy is studied. Objective function for fuzzy clustering with generalized entropy based on sample weighting is obtained. Following that, fuzzy clustering algorithm with generalized entropy based on sample weighting is presented. In addition, by introducing kernel into the presented objective functio...