Customer Retention is a major aspect of the growth of any business. It is always good to retain those customers who are more loyal or can be converted to be loyal. In this paper, a fuzzy decision tree based approach is proposed in combination with Z-shaped curved membership function to find the customer loyalty and has been compared with the approach of fuzzy decision tree with Gaussian members...

This paper presents circular polar coordinates transformation of periodic fuzzy membership function. The purpose is identification of domain of periodic membership functions in consequent part of IF-THEN rules. Proposed methods in this paper remove complicatedness concerning domain of periodic membership function from defuzzification in fuzzy approximate reasoning. Defuzzification on circular p...

The elicitation method of the fuzzy membership function depends on the interpretation of the membership function. This paper applies a recently developed neural network framework, Plausible Neural Network (PNN), to generate fuzzy membership functions automatically with or without class labeling based on the similarity and likelihood measurement. The approach combining supervised and unsupervise...

This paper explores the topic of fuzzy clustering, feature selection, and membership function optimization. Feature selection plays a crucial role for all fuzzy clustering applications, as the selection of appropriate features determines the quality of the resulting clusters. We will show how fuzzy clustering can be applied to data mining problems by introducing some of the most commonly used c...

multi objective quadratic fractional programming (moqfp) problem involves optimization of several objective functions in the form of a ratio of numerator and denominator functions which involve both contains linear and quadratic forms with the assumption that the set of feasible solutions is a convex polyhedral with a nite number of extreme points and the denominator part of each of the object...

driven precast reinforced concrete piles (dprcp) is extensively used as a foundation for bridges constructed over canals in egypt in order to avoid the diversion of water canals. the objectives of this research include identifying the main activities of dprcp execution in the bridge-construction industry in egypt and the risk factors affecting them. in addition, assessment of the effects of the...

in this paper, two sets of sufficient conditions are obtained to ensure the existence and stability of a unique equilibrium point of unforced first-order fuzzy relational dynamical systems by using two different approaches which are both based on the fuzzy relational matrix of the model.in the first approach, the equilibrium point of the system is one of the centers of the related membership fu...

This paper outlines two contributions to stability analysis of fuzzy systems: knowledge of the membership function shape (actually, constraints on the membership function values) and polynomial approaches. Both ideas reduce the conservativeness in the stability analysis of a nonlinear system when expressed as a fuzzy model by using membership shape information and by allowing a more general cla...

Some aspects of eLearning experience can be enhanced in a very natural way by using the basic tools offered by fuzzy logic. As a matter of example, consider the uncontrolled growth of information produced in a collaborative-oriented context, in which each participant (e.g. students, teachers) is able to insert and share new contents (e.g. comments, texts) concerning a university course. All the...

In many practical situations, we only know the bounds on the distances. A natural question is: knowing these bounds, can we check whether there exists a metric whose distance always lie within these bounds – or such a metric is not possible and thus, the bounds are inconsistent. In this paper, we provide an answer to this question. We also describe possible applications of this result to a desc...