Methods for supervised and unsupervised clustering and machine learning were studied in order to automatically model relationships between gene expression data and gene functions of the microorganism Escherichia coli. From a pre-selected subset of 265 genes (belonging to 3 functional groups) the function has been predicted with an accuracy higher than 50 % by various data mining methods describ...

Fuzzy logic is an organized and mathematical method of handling inherently imprecise concepts through the use of membership functions, which allows membership with a certain degree. It has found application in numerous problem domains. It has been used in the interval [0, 1] fuzzy clustering, in pattern recognition and in other domains. In this paper, we introduce fuzzy logic, fuzzy clustering ...

The material handling systems are one of the key components of the most modern manufacturing systems. The sensory signals of material handling systems are nonlinear and have unique characteristics. It is very difficult to encode and classify these signals by using multipurpose methods. In this study, performances of multiple generic methods were studied for the diagnostic of the pneumatic syste...

Two extensions to the objective function-based fuzzy clustering are proposed. First, the (point) prototypes are extended to hypervolumes, whose size can be fixed or can be determined automatically from the data being clustered. It is shown that clustering with hypervolume prototypes can be formulated as the minimization of an objective function. Second, a heuristic cluster merging step is intro...

Segmentation method for subject processing the multispectral satellite images based on fuzzy clustering and preliminary non-linear filtering is represented. Three fuzzy clustering algorithms, namely Fuzzy C-means, GustafsonKessel, and Gath-Geva have been utilized. The experimental results obtained using these algorithms with and without preliminary nonlinear filtering to segment multispectral L...

The detection performance of maritime radars is restricted by the unwanted sea echo or clutter. Although the number of these target-like data is small, they may cause false alarm and perturb the target detection. K-distribution is known as the best fit probability density function for the radar sea clutter. This paper proposes a novel approach to estimate the parameters of K-distribution, based...

Fuzzy time series forecasting methods do not require constraints found in conventional approaches. In addition, due to uncertainty that they contain, many time series to be forecasted should be considered as fuzzy time series. Fuzzy time series forecasting models consist of three steps as fuzzification, identification of fuzzy relations and defuzzification. Although most of the time series enco...

In clustering we often face the situation that only a subset of the available attributes is relevant for forming clusters, even though this may not be known beforehand. In such cases it is desirable to have a clustering algorithm that automatically weights attributes or even selects a proper subset. In this paper I study such an approach for fuzzy clustering, which is based on the idea to trans...

Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and hard clustering are the most common tools for data partitioning. However, the presence of noisy observations in the data may cause generation of completely unreliable partitions from these clustering algorithms. Also, application of the Euclidean distance in FCM only produces spherical clusters. In this paper, a new noise-rejection clustering algorithm based on Mahalanob...

The paper presents a modified structure of Takaga-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) network with a fully automated building and learning algorithm. The modification has resulted in a great reduction of nonlinear parameters of the network (almost three times). The modified network can be initiated using Gustafson-Kessel clustering algorithm. After initiation all parameters are further fine-tuned by an gradient ...