Job evaluation and differentiation are crucial in scheduling. Since jobs can be represented by vectors of processing times, the average, standard deviation, and skewness of job processing times can be defined as the moments of their probability distribution. The first and the second moments of processing times are effective in sorting jobs (Dong et al., 2008), however they are not yet optimized...

Tasks in the adult reasoning literature are designed so that heuristic processing leads one astray and adequate rule-based processing requires explicit knowledge about applicable logical and quasi-logical norms. Other research, however, indicates that appropriate rule-based inferences can be automatic. Individual differences in rationality are largely due to differences in developmental progres...

We examine several formulations of fuzzy rule selection for the design of fuzzy rulebased classification systems in our twostage approach. The first stage is heuristic rule extraction where a large number of candidate rules are extracted. The second stage is evolutionary rule selection where fuzzy rule-based systems are constructed by choosing a small number of candidate rules. Rule selection i...

The paper discusses the problem of rule weight tuning in neuro-fuzzy systems with parameterized consequences in which rule weights and the activation of the rules are not interchangeable. Some heuristic methods of rule weight computation in neuro-fuzzy systems with a hierarchical input domain partition and parameterized consequences are proposed. Several heuristics with experimental results sho...