Product configuration provides an important opportunity for taking advantage of a number of the benefits of mass customization. Mass customization is aimed at developing a wide external variety of products to satisfy individual customers, with managed internal diversity to prevent cost proliferation. In this context, we propose an iterative product configuration method applying fuzzy logic whic...

System reliability assessment is one of the major acts in the operation and maintenance of every industrial and service sector, which also holds true for maritime transportation system. The complexity of the maritime transportation system is a prime obstacle in the evaluation of the operational reliability of the system; mainly due to the fact that statistical data on the important parameters a...

The growth of cities, climate change, biomes degradation, disease and social issues influence the views of life quality and health of populations. The characteristics of health and environment are usually measured with different and disconnected indicators. However, the importance of working with those two aspects in a joined way is every time larger. In this paper it is presented a fuzzy rule-...

This paper generalizes the concepts of rough membership functions in pattern classification tasks to fuzz rough membership functions. Unlike the rough membersgp value of a pattern, which is sensitive only towards the rough uncertainty associated with the pattern, the fuzzy-rough membership value of the pattern signlfies the rou h uncertainty as well as the . fuzz uncertainty associated wig it. ...

Fuzzy modeling has become very popular because of its main feature being the ability to assign meaningful linguistic labels to the fuzzy sets in the rule base. This paper examines Sugeno and Yasukawa’s qualitative modeling approach, and addresses one of the remarks in the original paper. We propose a cluster search algorithm that can be used to provide a better projection of the output space to...

Our concern is with the determination of the firing level of the antecedent fuzzy set in a fuzzy systems model rule base. We first consider the case where the input information is also expressed in terms of a normal fuzzy set. We provide the requirements needed by any formulation of this operation. We next consider the case when the input information is expressed using a measure. Here we also p...

On this paper, an application of a high performance fuzzy logic hardware controller is explained, a model car is given autonomous character. Development of a fuzzy rule base, aided by a simulator program, is followed by trials made to come to conclusions regarding ideal and real functioning of the hardware developed.

We introduce a fuzzy controller which uses a fuzzy rule base diierently to the classical Mamdani approach. We argue that it has several desirable and well-motivated properties which often cannot be obtained by a Mamdani controller. Let X and Y denote the input and the output space, respectively, and let F(:) denote the collection of all fuzzy subsets. The support of a fuzzy set A 2 F(X) is Supp...

Some difficulties emerging during the construction of fuzzy behaviour-based control structures are inherited from the type of the applied fuzzy reasoning. The fuzzy rule base requested for many classical reasoning methods needed to be complete. In case of fetching fuzzy rules directly from expert knowledge e.g. for the behaviour coordination module, the way of building a complete rule base is n...

The aim of this contribution is to point out the importance of interpretability of fuzzy rule-based systems. We try to approach this key property axiomatically, as a starting point, restricting to interpretability of linguistic variables (in Zadeh’s sense). The proposed approach is underlined with an intuitive example. Finally, the benefits of considering interpretability in design and tuning o...