It seems intuitively reasonable that Gibbs' variational principle de­ termining the conditions of heterogeneous equilibrium can be gener­ alized to nonequilibrium conditions. That is, a nonequilibriurn steady state should be the one that makes some kind of generalized-entropy production stationary; and even in the presence of irreversible fluxes, the condition for migrational equilibrium should...

Early work on Case Based Reasoning reported in the literature shows the importance of soft computing techniques applied to different stages of the classical 4-step CBR life cycle. This paper proposes a reduction technique based on Rough Sets theory that is able to minimize the case base by analyzing the contribution of each feature. Inspired by the application of the minimum description length ...

—The research presents -hierarchical fuzzy twin support vector regression (-HFTSVR) based on -fuzzy twin support vector regression (-FTSVR) and -twin support vector regression (-TSVR). -FTSVR is achieved by incorporating trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to -TSVR which takes care of uncertainty existing in forecasting problems. -FTSVR determines a pair of -insensitive proximal functions by so...

In this paper, a Fuzzy Prolog is introduced that is based on the fuzzy resolution principle. There are three levels of concern: (1) the f u z ~ truth values of predicates that depend on several values of individual variables, (2) the weights of rules that depend on several fuzzy truth values of premise and conclusion, and (3) the confidence of resolvent that depends on the fuzzy resolution prin...