this paper intends to offer a new iterative method based on articial neural networks for finding solution of a fuzzy equations system. our proposed fuzzied neural network is a ve-layer feedback neural network that corresponding connection weights to output layer are fuzzy numbers. this architecture of articial neural networks, can get a real input vector and calculates its corresponding fu...

Abstract Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a risk tool widely used in the manufacturing industry. However, traditional FMEA has limitations such as inability to deal with uncertain failure data including subjective evaluations of experts, absence weight values parameters, not considering conditionality between events. In this paper, we propose holistic overcome these limitations. The p...

The demands to automatic control for industrial plants are growing due to an increased complexity of the manufacturing processes. To face these challenges, intelligent control is getting more and more important. For example, neural networks and fuzzy logic are regularly used. The usage of Bayesian networks is seldom mentioned even if many training algorithms are available and Bayesian networks ...

We prove that three independent fuzzy systems can uniformly approximate Bayesian posterior probability density functions by approximating the prior and likelihood probability densities as well as the hyperprior probability densities that underly the priors. This triply fuzzy function approximation extends the recent theorem for uniformly approximating the posterior density by approximating just...

Bayesian Networks are increasingly being used to model complex socio-economic systems by expert knowledge elicitation even when data is scarce or does not exist. In this paper, a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) is presented for assessing the parameters (input relevance/weights) of fuzzy dependence relationships in a Bayesian Network (BN). The MOEA was designed to include a hybrid ...

Lifetime data are important in reliability analysis. Classical reliability estimation is based on precise lifetime data. It is usually assumed that observed lifetime data are precise real numbers. However, some collected lifetime data might be imprecise and are represented in the form of fuzzy numbers. Thus, it is necessary to generalize classical statistical estimation methods for real numbers...

The Bayesian reliability estimation under fuzzy environments is proposed in this paper. In order to apply the Bayesian approach, the fuzzy parameters are assumed to be fuzzy random variables with fuzzy prior distributions. The (conventional) Bayesian estimation method will be used to create the fuzzy Bayes point estimator of reliability by invoking the well-known theorem called ‘Resolution Iden...

This paper applies both the neural network and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for forecasting short-term chaotic traffic volumes and compares the results. The architecture of the neural network consists of the input vector, one hidden layer and output layer. Bayesian regularization is employed to obtain the effective number of neurons in the hidden layer. The input variables and target o...