Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems - Volume 40, issue 6

Authors: Özgül, Ercan | Dinçer, Hasan | Yüksel, Serhat

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Healthy life is recognized as one of the most fundamental human rights. However, even today, millions of people around the world are forced to choose between their basic needs and fundamental rights. Half of the world’s population does not have access to the healthcare they need. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that all individuals receive the quality health services they need without incurring a financial burden, and to protect them from risk factors that threaten their health. The aim of this study is to identify the significant factors to improve UHC in the countries. For this purpose, house …of quality (HoQ) approach is used in the analysis process so that both customer expectations and technical requirements are considered. Within this framework, a novel hybrid model has been proposed which has three different stages. Firstly, 3 groups of diseases and 4 clinical services for each group are determined regarding the customer needs. Secondly, these factors are weighted by using interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant 2-tuple fuzzy decision making and trial evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL). In the final stage, 9 different technical requirements are ranked by using interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant 2-tuple fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). Additionally, another evaluation has also been conducted by considering Spherical fuzzy sets. Similarly, a comparative analysis has also been performed with VIKOR while ranking the alternatives. It is concluded that analysis results of both evaluations are quite similar. This situation gives an information about the coherency and consistency of the analysis results. The findings indicate that treatment services in noncommunicable diseases play the most significant role in this respect. Moreover, according to the ranking results, it is concluded that strategic policies should be related to improving the social security and special physician capacity as well as decreasing the out-of-pocket payment. Show more

Keywords: House of quality, UHC, hesitant linguistic terms, DEMATEL, TOPSIS

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202818

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11671-11689, 2021

Authors: Liu, Rui-Lin | Yang, Hai-Long | Zhang, Li-Juan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper studies information structures in a fuzzy β -covering information system. We introduce the concepts of a fuzzy β -covering information system and homomorphism between them, and investigate related properties. The concept of information structure of a fuzzy β -covering information system is given. We discuss the relationships between information structures from the view of dependence and separation. Then granularity measures for a fuzzy β -covering information system are studied. Finally, we discuss invariance of fuzzy β -covering information systems under homomorphism and illustrate its application on data compression.

Keywords: Fuzzy β-covering, fuzzy β-covering information system, information structure, homomorphism, invariance property

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202824

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11691-11716, 2021

Authors: Wang, Fubin | Liu, Peide | Wang, Peng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: A scientific evaluation model can be effectively used for the evaluation of regional talent development level. This paper proposes a set of scientific index systems for evaluating rural science and technology talents, which can be used for understanding the development status and level of rural science and technology talents in various regions; putting forward the corresponding talent cultivation and introduction policies, and; promoting the development of rural economic construction. Moreover, in order to avoid the shortcoming of over-subjective indicator weight in analytic hierarchy process (AHP), this paper uses the entropy weight method to determine indicator weight. Furthermore, giving the fact …that the evaluation experts may have individual personal preferences, this paper proposes an extended TODIM method based on hybrid index values, for achieving more scientific and effective evaluation results of rural science and technology talents. Finally, the proposed methods are evaluated on an actual case, where relevant analysis and suggestions are given. Show more

Keywords: Rural scientific and technological talents, TODIM method, entropy weight method, hybrid indicator, multi-attribute decision-making

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202847

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11717-11730, 2021

Authors: Ju, Hongmei | Zhang, Yafang | Zhao, Ye

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Classification problem is an important research direction in machine learning. υ -nonparallel support vector machine (υ -NPSVM) is an important classifier used to solve classification problems. It is widely used because of its structural risk minimization principle, kernel trick, and sparsity. However, when solving classification problems, υ -NPSVM will encounter the problem of sample noises and heteroscedastic noise structure, which will affect its performance. In this paper, two improvements are made on the υ -NPSVM model, and a υ-nonparallel parametric margin fuzzy support vector machine (par-υ -FNPSVM) is established. On the one hand, for the noises that may exist in …the data set, the neighbor information is used to add fuzzy membership to the samples, so that the contribution of each sample to the classification is treated differently. On the other hand, in order to reduce the effect of heteroscedastic structure, an insensitive loss function is introduced. The advantages of the new model are verified through UCI machine learning standard data set experiments. Finally, Friedman test and Bonferroni-Dunn test are used to verify the statistical significance of it. Show more

Keywords: Classification problem, sample noises, heteroscedastic noise structure, ν-nonparallel support vector machine, parameter margin, nearest neighbor fuzzy membership

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202869

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11731-11747, 2021

Authors: Pavan Kumar, C.S. | Dhinesh Babu, L.D.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Sentiment analysis is widely used to retrieve the hidden sentiments in medical discussions over Online Social Networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. People often tend to convey their feelings concerning their medical problems over social media platforms. Practitioners and health care workers have started to observe these discussions to assess the impact of health-related issues among the people. This helps in providing better care to improve the quality of life. Dementia is a serious disease in western countries like the United States of America and the United Kingdom, and the respective governments are providing facilities to the affected people. …There is much chatter over social media platforms concerning the patients’ care, healthy measures to be followed to avoid disease, check early indications. These chatters have to be carefully monitored to help the officials take necessary precautions for the betterment of the affected. A novel Feature engineering architecture that involves feature-split for sentiment analysis of medical chatter over online social networks with the pipeline is proposed that can be used on any Machine Learning model. The proposed model used the fuzzy membership function in refining the outputs. The machine learning model has obtained sentiment score is subjected to fuzzification and defuzzification by using the trapezoid membership function and center of sums method, respectively. Three datasets are considered for comparison of the proposed and the regular model. The proposed approach delivered better results than the normal approach and is proved to be an effective approach for sentiment analysis of medical discussions over online social networks. Show more

Keywords: Dementia, sentiment analysis, machine learning, FDA, feature-split, feature engineering, trapezoid membership function

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202874

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11749-11761, 2021

Authors: Zargari, Hamed | Zahedi, Morteza | Rahimi, Marziea

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Words are one of the most essential elements of expressing sentiments in context although they are not the only ones. Also, syntactic relationships between words, morphology, punctuation, and linguistic phenomena are influential. Merely considering the concept of words as isolated phenomena causes a lot of mistakes in sentiment analysis systems. So far, a large amount of research has been conducted on generating sentiment dictionaries containing only sentiment words. A number of these dictionaries have addressed the role of combinations of sentiment words, negators, and intensifiers, while almost none of them considered the heterogeneous effect of the occurrence of multiple linguistic …phenomena in sentiment compounds. Regarding the weaknesses of the existing sentiment dictionaries, in addressing the heterogeneous effect of the occurrence of multiple intensifiers, this research presents a sentiment dictionary based on the analysis of sentiment compounds including sentiment words, negators, and intensifiers by considering the multiple intensifiers relative to the sentiment word and assigning a location-based coefficient to the intensifier, which increases the covered sentiment phrase in the dictionary, and enhanced efficiency of proposed dictionary-based sentiment analysis methods up to 7% compared to the latest methods. Show more

Keywords: Sentiment analysis, sentiment dictionary, linguistic phenomena, intensifier, intensifier location

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202879

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11763-11776, 2021

Authors: Zhang, Duo | Nguang, Sing Kiong | Shu, Lan | Qiu, Dong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper focuses on establishing the trilinear fuzzy seepage model with multiple fuzzy parameters for shale gas reservoirs. Different from the conventional seepage models of shale gas reservoirs, the multiple fuzzy parameters seepage model uses fuzzy numbers to describe some parameters with uncertainty. Firstly, the multiple fuzzy parameters seepage model is constructed based on fuzzy concepts. The fuzzy structure element method and the centroid method are used to solve the fuzzy seepage model and defuzzifier, respectively. Secondly, the advantages of the development fuzzy model over the conventional seepage model are discussed and illustrated through numerical examples and simulations. Finally, to …further study the seepage laws inside shale gas reservoirs, this paper explores the sensitivity of relevant main control parameters to gas production based on the development model. Show more

Keywords: Shale gas reservoirs, fuzzy parameter, fuzzy differential equation, fuzzy structural element, fuzzy modeling

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202898

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11777-11797, 2021

Authors: Choudhary, Anu | Raj, Kuldip | Mursaleen, M.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Tauberian theorem serves the purpose to recuperate Pringsheim’s convergence of a double sequence from its (C , 1, 1) summability under some additional conditions known as Tauberian conditions. In this article, we intend to introduce some Tauberian theorems for fuzzy number sequences by using the de la Vallée Poussin mean and double difference operator of order r  . We prove that a bounded double sequence of fuzzy number which is Δ u r - convergent is ( C , 1 , 1 ) Δ u r - summable to the …same fuzzy number L  . We make an effort to develop some new slowly oscillating and Hardy-type Tauberian conditions in certain senses employing de la Vallée Poussin mean. We establish a connection between the Δ u r - Hardy type and Δ u r - slowly oscillating Tauberian condition. Finally by using these new slowly oscillating and Hardy-type Tauberian conditions, we explore some relations between ( C , 1 , 1 ) Δ u r - summable and Δ u r - convergent double fuzzy number sequences. Show more

Keywords: Fuzzy number, difference operator, double sequences, Tauberian theorem, (C, 1, 1)- summability

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202921

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11799-11808, 2021

Authors: Lei, Fan | Wei, Guiwu | Chen, Xudong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic term set (PDHLTS) can not only express the complex linguistic information that the probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) cannot express, but also reflect the frequency or importance of linguistic term set (LTS)that cannot be reflected by the double hierarchy linguistic term set (DHLTS). It is an effective tool to deal with multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems. Therefore, in this paper, we propose several aggregation operators which can aggregate PDHLTS information and apply them to MAGDM problems. Firstly, the basic notion of PDHLTS is reviewed, and the distance formula and algorithm of PDHLTS are defined; …then, extant weighted averaging (WA) operator, weighted geometric(WG) operator and power weighted averaging (PWA) operator, power weighted geometric(PWG) operator to PDHLTS, and establish probability double hierarchy linguistic weighted averaging (PDHLWA) operator, probability double hierarchy linguistic weighted geometric (PDHLWG) operator, probability double hierarchy linguistic power weighted averaging (PDHLPWA) operator, probability double hierarchy linguistic power weighted geometric (PDHLPWG) operator; in addition, The idempotency, boundedness and monotonicity of these aggregation operators are studied; what’s more, those aggregation operators are proposed to establish the enterprise credit self-evaluation model; Finally, compared with the available probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic MAGDM methods, the defined model is proved to be scientific and effective. Show more

Keywords: Multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), probabilistic double hierarchy term set (PDHLTS), aggregation operators, enterprise credit self-evaluation model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202922

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11809-11828, 2021

Authors: Wu, Xinhao | Lu, Qiujun

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Application of quantitative methods for forecasting purposes in financial markets has attracted significant attention from researchers and managers in recent years when conventional time series forecasting models can hardly develop the inherent rules of complex nonlinear dynamic financial systems. In this paper, based on the fuzzy technique integrated with the statistical tools and artificial neural network, a new hybrid forecasting system consisting of three stages is constructed to exhibit effectively improved forecasting accuracy of financial asset price. The sum of squared errors is minimized to determine the coefficients in fitting the fuzzy autoregression model stage for formulating sample groups to …deal with data containing outliers. Fuzzy bilinear regression model introducing risk view based on quadratic programming algorithm that reflects the properties of both least squares and possibility approaches without expert knowledge is developed in the second stage. The main idea of the model considers the sub-models tracking the possible relations between the spread and the center, also linking the estimation deviation with risk degree of fitness of the model. In the third stage, fuzzy bilinear regression forecasting combining with the optimal architecture of probabilistic neural network classifiers indicates that the proposed method has great contribution to control over-wide interval financial data with a certain confidence level. Statistical validation and performance analysis using historical financial asset yield series on Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index all exhibit the effectiveness and stability of the proposed hybrid forecasting formulation compared with other forecasting methods. Show more

Keywords: Financial asset yield series forecasting, fuzzy bilinear regression, probabilistic neural network, symmetrical triangular fuzzy number, risk-neutral

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202927

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11829-11844, 2021

Authors: Shabir, Muhammad | Mubarak, Asad | Naz, Munazza

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The rough set theory is an effective method for analyzing data vagueness, while bipolar soft sets can handle data ambiguity and bipolarity in many cases. In this article, we apply Pawlak’s concept of rough sets to the bipolar soft sets and introduce the rough bipolar soft sets by defining a rough approximation of a bipolar soft set in a generalized soft approximation space. We study their structural properties and discuss how the soft binary relation affects the rough approximations of a bipolar soft set. Two sorts of bipolar soft topologies induced by soft binary relation are examined. We additionally discuss …some similarity relations between the bipolar soft sets, depending on their roughness. Such bipolar soft sets are very useful in the problems related to decision-making such as supplier selection problem, purchase problem, portfolio selection, site selection problem etc. A methodology has been introduced for this purpose and two algorithms are presented based upon the ongoing notions of foresets and aftersets respectively. These algorithms determine the best/worst choices by considering rough approximations over two universes i.e. the universe of objects and universe of parameters under a single framework of rough bipolar soft sets. Show more

Keywords: Rough sets, bipolar soft sets, rough bipolar soft sets, bipolar soft topology, decision making

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202958

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11845-11860, 2021

Authors: Zhu, Jia-Nian | Liu, Xu-Chong | Liu, Chong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Non-equidistant non-homogenous grey model (abbreviated as NENGM (1,1, k ) model) is a grey prediction model suitable for predicting time series with non-equal intervals. It is widely used in various fields of society due to its high prediction accuracy and strong adaptability. In order to further improve the prediction accuracy of the NENGM (1,1, k ) model, the NENGM (1,1, k ) model is optimized in terms of the cumulative order and background value of the NENGM (1,1, k ) model, and a NENGM (1,1, k ) model based on double optimization is established (abbreviated as FBNENGM (1,1, k ) …model), and the whale optimization algorithm is used to solve the best parameters of the model. In order to verify the feasibility and validity of the FBNENGM (1,1, k ) model, the FBNENGM (1,1, k ) model and other four prediction models are applied to three cases respectively, and three indexes commonly used to evaluate the performance of prediction models are used to distinguish. The results show that the prediction accuracy of the FBNENGM (1,1, k ) model based on double optimization is better than other prediction models. Show more

Keywords: Grey system theory, fractional-order accumulation, grey prediction model, FBNENGM (1, 1, k) model, ·whale optimization algorithm

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210023

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11861-11874, 2021

Authors: Li, Haiyan | Yang, Xiangfeng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Uncertain time series is chronological sequence overtime where each period is described by an uncertain variable. In this paper, we investigate the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalized estimation method to determine the unknown parameters in the uncertain autoregressive model, and the autoregressive model order can be simultaneously obtained for a pre-given thresholding parameter λ . Besides, an iterative algorithm based on local quadratic approximations for finding the penalized estimators is provided. Based on the fitted autoregressive model, the forecast value and the future value’s confidence interval are given. Besides, the sum of the squared error approach to select the …optimal λ is discussed. Finally, some examples are used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method by the comparative analysis. Show more

Keywords: Uncertain variable, uncertain autoregressive model, SCAD penalty

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210031

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11875-11885, 2021

Authors: Bashir, Humera | Zahid, Zohaib | Kashif, Agha | Zafar, Sohail | Liu, Jia-Bao

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The 2-metric resolvability is an extension of metric resolvability in graphs having several applications in intelligent systems for example network optimization, robot navigation and sensor networking. Rotationally symmetric graphs are important in intelligent networks due to uniform rate of data transformation to all nodes. In this article, 2-metric dimension of rotationally symmetric plane graphs R n , S n and T n is computed and found to be independent of the number of vertices.

Keywords: 2-metric dimension, rotationally symmetric, plane graphs

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210040

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11887-11895, 2021

Authors: Chen, Lei | Han, Jun | Tian, Feng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Infrared (IR) images can distinguish targets from their backgrounds based on difference in thermal radiation, whereas visible images can provide texture details with high spatial resolution. The fusion of the IR and visible images has many advantages and can be applied to applications such as target detection and recognition. This paper proposes a two-layer generative adversarial network (GAN) to fuse these two types of images. In the first layer, the network generate fused images using two GANs: one uses the IR image as input and the visible image as ground truth, and the other with the visible as input and …the IR as ground truth. In the second layer, the network transfer one of the two fused images generated in the first layer as input and the other as ground truth to GAN to generate the final fused image. We adopt TNO and INO data sets to verify our method, and by comparing with eight objective evaluation parameters obtained by other ten methods. It is demonstrated that our method is able to achieve better performance than state-of-arts on preserving both texture details and thermal information. Show more

Keywords: IR and visible images, image fusion, generative adversarial network, deep learning

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210041

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11897-11913, 2021

Authors: Zhang, Shao-Yu

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper introduces a special Galois connection combined with the wedge-below relation. Furthermore, by using this tool, it is shown that the category of M -fuzzifying betweenness spaces and the category of M -fuzzifying convex spaces are isomorphic and the category of arity-2 M -fuzzifying convex spaces can be embedded in the category of M -fuzzifying interval spaces as a reflective subcategory.

Keywords: Fuzzy convex structure, fuzzy betweenness space, fuzzy interval space, arity-2 fuzzy convexity

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210060

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11915-11925, 2021

Authors: Oh, Ju-Mok | Kim, Yong Chan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce the notions of join preserving maps using distance spaces instead of fuzzy partially ordered sets on complete co-residuated lattices. We investigate the properties of Alexandrov fuzzy topologies, distance functions, join preserving maps and upper approximation operators. Furthermore, we study their relations and examples. We prove that there exist isomorphic categories and Galois correspondences between their categories.

Keywords: Complete co-residuated lattices, distance functions, join preserving maps, upper approximation operators, Alexandrov fuzzy topologies

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210061

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11927-11939, 2021

Authors: Chen, Xiaojun | Jia, Shengbin | Ding, Ling | Xiang, Yang

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Knowledge graph reasoning or completion aims at inferring missing facts by reasoning about the information already present in the knowledge graph. In this work, we explore the problem of temporal knowledge graph reasoning that performs inference on the graph over time. Most existing reasoning models ignore the time information when learning entities and relations representations. For example, the fact (Scarlett Johansson , spouse Of , Ryan Reynolds ) was true only during 2008 - 2011. To facilitate temporal reasoning, we present TA-TransRILP , which involves temporal information by utilizing RNNs and takes advantage of Integer Linear Programming. Specifically, we …utilize a character-level long short-term memory network to encode relations with sequences of temporal tokens, and combine it with common reasoning model. To achieve more accurate reasoning, we further deploy temporal consistency constraints to basic model, which can help in assessing the validity of a fact better. We conduct entity prediction and relation prediction on YAGO11k and Wikidata12k datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that TA-TransRILP can make more accurate predictions by taking time information and temporal consistency constraints into account, and outperforms existing methods with a significant improvement about 6-8% on Hits@10. Show more

Keywords: Knowledge graph reasoning, temporal information, temporal consistency constraints, integer linear programming

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210064

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11941-11950, 2021

Authors: Yu, Junqi | Zhang, Tianlun | Zhao, Anjun | Xie, Yunfei

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Energy consumption prediction can provide reliable data support for energy scheduling and optimization of office buildings. It is difficult for traditional prediction model to achieve stable accuracy and robustness when energy consumption mode is complex and data sources are diverse. Based on such situation, this paper raised an approach containing the method of comprehensive similar day and ensemble learning. Firstly, the historical data was analyzed and calculated to obtain the similarity degree of meteorological features, time factor and precursor. Next, the entropy weight method was used to calculate comprehensive similar day and applied to the model training. Then the improved …sine cosine optimization algorithm (SCA) was applied to the optimization and parameter selection of a single model. Finally, an approach of model selection and integration based on dominance was proposed, which was compared with Support Vector Regression (SVR), Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), with a large office building in Xi ‘an taken as an example to analysis showing that compared with the prediction accuracy, root mean square percentage error (RMSPE) in the ensemble learning model after using comprehensive similar day was reduced by about 0.15 compared with the BP model, and was reduced by about 0.05, 0.06 compared with the SVR and LSTM model. Respectively, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) was reduced by 12.02%, 6.51% and 5.28%. Compared with several other integration methods, integration model based on dominance reduced absolute error at all times. Accordingly, the proposed approach can effectively solve problems of low accuracy and poor robustness in traditional model and predict the building energy consumption efficaciously. Show more

Keywords: Similar day, ensemble learning, sine cosine optimization algorithm, energy consumption prediction

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210069

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11951-11965, 2021

Authors: Wu, Meiqin | Li, Zhuoyu | Fan, Jianping

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With resource shortage and environmental pollution becoming more and more serious, the development of new energy vehicles (NEVs) plays an important role. In this paper, the hybrid method of best-worst method (BWM), Multi-Objective Optimization by Ratio Analysis plus Full Multiplicative Form (MULTIMOORA), and Evaluation based on Distance from Average Solution (EDAS) is used to evaluate new energy vehicles (NEVs) and select the best new energy vehicle. BWM method is used to obtain the subjective preference weight, MULTIMOORA method is used to integrate the objective data with the subjective weight to evaluate new energy vehicles, and the final ranking of alternatives …is obtained by the EDAS method. The paper collect the data of 22 representative new energy vehicle types in China, the validity and feasibility of the method is verified. Show more

Keywords: Best-worst method, multi-objective optimization by ratio analysis plus full multiplicative form, evaluation based on distance from average solution, new energy vehicles

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210074

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11967-11980, 2021

Authors: Srivastava, Sangeeta | Varshney, Ashwani | Katyal, Supriya | Kaur, Ravneet | Gaur, Vibha

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The government has established special schools to cater to the needs of children with disabilities but they are often segregated rather than receiving equitable opportunities. Artificial Intelligence has opened new ways to promote special education with advanced learning tools. These tools enable to adapt to a typical classroom set up for all the students with or without disabilities. To ensure social equity and the same classroom experience, a coherent solution is envisioned for inclusive education. This paper aims to propose a cost-effective and integrated Smart Learning Assistance (SLA) tool for Inclusive Education using Deep Learning and Computer Vision techniques. It …comprises speech to text and sign language conversion for hearing impaired students, sign language to text conversion for speech impaired students, and Braille to text for communicating with visually impaired students. The tool assists differently-abled students to make use of various teaching-learning opportunities conferred to them and ensures convenient two-way communication with the instructor and peers in the classroom thus makes learning easier. Show more

Keywords: Inclusive classroom, image processing, computer vision, deep learning, artificial intelligence

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210075

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11981-11994, 2021

Authors: Jin, Jiulin | Zhu, Fuyang | You, Taijie

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this paper, picture fuzzy tensor is proposed, and some related properties are studied. In the meantime, the decomposition theorem of picture fuzzy tensors is established by using picture fuzzy cutting tensors and picture fuzzy t -norm. Moreover, we propose the generalized picture fuzzy weighted interaction aggregation (GPFWIA) operator and the generalized picture fuzzy weighted interaction geometric (GPFWIG) operator. Finally, an application of picture fuzzy tensor in multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems is presented, that is, a method is suggested to solve picture fuzzy MADM problems with multi-dimensional data characteristics. It is found that our proposed method is feasible and …effective by a typical application example. Show more

Keywords: Picture fuzzy tensor, Multi-attribute decision making (MADM), Decomposition theorem, Generalized picture fuzzy weighted interaction aggregation (GPFWIA) operator, Generalized picture fuzzy weighted interaction geometric (GPFWIG) operator

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210093

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11995-12009, 2021

Authors: Liu, Yaning | Han, Lin | Wang, Hexiang | Yin, Bo

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is a common carcinoma in thyroid. As many benign thyroid nodules have the papillary structure which could easily be confused with PTC in morphology. Thus, pathologists have to take a lot of time on differential diagnosis of PTC besides personal diagnostic experience and there is no doubt that it is subjective and difficult to obtain consistency among observers. To address this issue, we applied deep learning to the differential diagnosis of PTC and proposed a histological image classification method for PTC based on the Inception Residual convolutional neural network (IRCNN) and support vector machine (SVM). First, …in order to expand the dataset and solve the problem of histological image color inconsistency, a pre-processing module was constructed that included color transfer and mirror transform. Then, to alleviate overfitting of the deep learning model, we optimized the convolution neural network by combining Inception Network and Residual Network to extract image features. Finally, the SVM was trained via image features extracted by IRCNN to perform the classification task. Experimental results show effectiveness of the proposed method in the classification of PTC histological images. Show more

Keywords: papillary thyroid carcinoma, histological image classification, convolutional neural network, deep learning

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210100

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12011-12021, 2021

Authors: Wei, Qianjin | Wang, Chengxian | Wen, Yimin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Intelligent optimization algorithm combined with rough set theory to solve minimum attribute reduction (MAR) is time consuming due to repeated evaluations of the same position. The algorithm also finds in poor solution quality because individuals are not fully explored in space. This study proposed an algorithm based on quick extraction and multi-strategy social spider optimization (QSSOAR). First, a similarity constraint strategy was called to constrain the initial state of the population. In the iterative process, an adaptive opposition-based learning (AOBL) was used to enlarge the search space. To obtain a reduction with fewer attributes, the dynamic redundancy detection (DRD) strategy …was applied to remove redundant attributes in the reduction result. Furthermore, the quick extraction strategy was introduced to avoid multiple repeated computations in this paper. By combining an array with key-value pairs, the corresponding value can be obtained by simple comparison. The proposed algorithm and four representative algorithms were compared on nine UCI datasets. The results show that the proposed algorithm performs well in reduction ability, running time, and convergence speed. Meanwhile, the results confirm the superiority of the algorithm in solving MAR. Show more

Keywords: Intelligent optimization, rough set theory, attribute reduction, social spider optimization, opposition-based learning

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210133

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12023-12038, 2021

Authors: Liu, Jinpei | Shao, Longlong | Zhou, Ligang | Jin, Feifei

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Faced with complex decision problems, distribution linguistic preference relation (DLPR) is an effective way for decision-makers (DMs) to express preference information. However, due to the complexity of the decision-making environment, DMs may not be able to provide complete linguistic distribution for all linguistic terms in DLPRs, which results in incomplete DLPRs. Therefore, in order to solve group decision-making (GDM) with incomplete DLPRs, this paper proposes expected consistency-based model and multiplicative DEA cross-efficiency. For a given incomplete DLPRs, we first propose an optimization model to obtain complete DLPR. This optimization model can evaluate the missing linguistic distribution and ensure that the …obtained DLPR has a high consistency level. And then, we develop a transformation function that can transform DLPRs into multiplicative preference relations (MPRs). Furthermore, we design an improved multiplicative DEA model to obtain the priority vector of MPR for ranking all alternatives. Finally, a numerical example is provided to show the rationality and applicability of the proposed GDM method. Show more

Keywords: Group decision making, distribution linguistic preference relation, incomplete distribution linguistic preference relation, expected consistency, multiplicative DEA cross-efficiency

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210148

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12039-12059, 2021

Authors: Chen, Wei | Chen, Junqiu | Xian, Yantuan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: It is of great significance to recognize the metallurgical entity relations in order to construct the Knowledge graph of Metallurgical Literature and to further understand the metallurgical literature. However, there are few researches on the textual entity relations in metallurgical fields either few marked Corpora. The syntactic structure of the same entity relationship category is relatively simple and has strong domain characteristics. The traditional entity relationship model can not identify the domain entity relationship well. Meanwhile the syntactic structure of the same entity relations class is relatively simple, and the syntactic structure is relatively simple in the recognition of entity …relations in metallurgy field. Furthermore, the entities with similar syntactic structure often have the same entity relations and the different words in the sentence have different contribution to the entity relations. In order to solve the mentioned problems, this paper will combine the algorithm that can highlight the syntactic structure in sentences and improve the accuracy of the model with the Algorithm that can highlight the contribution of words in sentences and the loss function level integration is carried out in the framework of small sample prototype network, so as to maximize the advantages of each algorithm and improve the accuracy –firstly, in the coding layer of the prototype network, we use the CNN algorithm which can highlight the important words in the sentences and the TreeLSTM algorithm which can parse the sentences in the text so that the syntactic relations between the words in the sentences can be acted on in the relation recognition, the sentences are coded together by two algorithms, then, the EUCLIDEAN distance loss is calculated by using this high quality coding and the prototype coding, finally, the traditional entity relation recognition model with Attention Mechanism is integrated into the loss function, further highlighting the decisive role of important words in text sentences in relation recognition and improving the generalization of the model. The results showed that compared with the traditional methods such as CNN, RNN, PCNN and Bi-LSTM, the proposed method in this paper has better performance in the case of small sample data set. Show more

Keywords: Syntactic analysis, integration learning, prototype network, entity relationship recognition

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210163

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12061-12073, 2021

Authors: Shi, Jinglei | Guo, Junjun | Yu, Zhengtao | Xiang, Yan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Unsupervised aspect identification is a challenging task in aspect-based sentiment analysis. Traditional topic models are usually used for this task, but they are not appropriate for short texts such as product reviews. In this work, we propose an aspect identification model based on aspect vector reconstruction. A key of our model is that we make connections between sentence vectors and multi-grained aspect vectors using fuzzy k-means membership function. Furthermore, to make full use of different aspect representations in vector space, we reconstruct sentence vectors based on coarse-grained aspect vectors and fine-grained aspect vectors simultaneously. The resulting model can therefore learn …better aspect representations. Experimental results on two datasets from different domains show that our proposed model can outperform a few baselines in terms of aspect identification and topic coherence of the extracted aspect terms. Show more

Keywords: Aspect identification, text clustering, topic coherence, membership function, aspect extraction

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210175

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12075-12085, 2021

Authors: Chen, Zhe | Zhong, Peisi | Liu, Mei | Sun, Hongyuan | Shang, Kai

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This work aims to help the designers to make decisions in the early stage of new product development. Design concept evaluation is very critical in design process, it may affect the later stages. However, facing to uncertain circumstance, mostly, the raw data in early stage are subjective and imprecise. This work proposes a novel approach to solve this problem. The whole work is based on rough numbers, Shannon entropy, technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution method and preference selection index method. Firstly, rough numbers and Shannon entropy are integrated to determine the weight of evaluation criteria based …on their interrelationships. After that, a novel technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution method improved by rough numbers and preference selection index method is proposed to evaluate and rank the alternatives. Then, a comparative case is carried out with proposed method and two other methods in this study. The comparation of evaluation processes indicates that the proposed method’s advantage. Compared the other methods, proposed approach is objective, simple and do not need additional input. The results of three methods are similar. It means that the proposed method is not only effective and efficient in design concept evaluation, but also can save time and cost in the early stage of new product development. Show more

Keywords: Rough numbers, TOPSIS-PSI, shannon entropy, design concept evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210184

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12087-12099, 2021

Authors: Vivek, S. | Mathew, Sunil C.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper studies the closure and interior operators in LM -fuzzy topological spaces. The algebraic structures associated with various collections of closed sets and open sets are identified. Further, certain lattices formed by these algebraic structures are obtained and some lattice theoretic properties of the same are investigated. Corresponding to every element in M , the study associates a lattice of monoids which is determined by various types of closed sets and open sets.

Keywords: LM-fuzzy topology, Closure operator, Lattice, Monoid, 54A40

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210195

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12101-12109, 2021

Authors: Wang, Rui | Jia, Zhaohong | Li, Kai

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this paper, a problem of scheduling jobs with different sizes and fuzzy processing times (FPT) on non-identical parallel batch machines to minimize makespan is investigated. Moreover, the processing time (PT) of each batch is subject to the location-based learning and total-PT-based deterioration effect. Since this is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, an improved intelligent algorithm based on fruit fly optimization algorithm (IFOA) is proposed. To verify the performance of the algorithm, the IFOA is compared with three state-of-the-art algorithms. The comparative results demonstrate that the proposed IFOA outperforms the other compared algorithms.

Keywords: Evolutionary algorithms, combinatorial optimization, fuzzy sets, scheduling

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210196

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12111-12124, 2021

Authors: Guo, Jiong | Lei, Deming | Li, Ming

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Energy-efficient flexible job shop scheduling problems (EFJSP) have been investigated fully; however, energy-related objectives often have lower importance than other ones in many real-life situations and this case is hardly considered in the previous works. In this study, EFJSP with sequence-dependent setup times (SDST) is considered, in which total tardiness and makespan are given higher importance than total energy consumption. A two-phase imperialist competitive algorithm (TPICA) is proposed. The importance difference among objectives is implemented by treating all objectives equally in the first phase and making energy consumption not to exceed a diminishing threshold in the second phase. A dynamical …differentiating assimilation and a novel imperialist competition with the enforced search are implemented. Extensive experiments are conducted and the computational results show that TPICA is very competitive for EFJSP with SDST. Show more

Keywords: Flexible job shop scheduling, energy-efficient scheduling, imperialist competitive algorithm, sequence-dependent setup times

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210198

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12125-12137, 2021

Authors: Cao, Xin-Zi | Luo, Sheng-Zhou | Li, Jing-Cong | Pan, Jia-Hui

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The grade and stage of bladder tumors is an essential key for diagnosing and treating bladder cancer. This study proposed an automated bladder tumor prediction system to automatically assess the bladder tumor grade and stage automatically on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. The system included three modules: tumor segmentation, feature extraction and prediction. We proposed a U-ResNet network that automatically extracts morphological and texture features for detecting tumor regions. These features were used in support vector machine (SVM) classifiers to predict the grade and stage. Our proposed method segmented the tumor area and predicted the grade and stage more accurately …compared to different methods in our experiments on MRI images. The accuracy of bladder tumor grade prediction was about 70%, and the accuracy of the data set was about 77.5%. The extensive experiments demonstrated the usefulness and effectiveness of our method. Show more

Keywords: Bladder tumor segmentation, U-ResNet network, grade and stage, feature extraction, support vector machine

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210263

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12139-12150, 2021

Authors: Xu, Zhixuan | Chen, Caikou | Han, Guojiang | Gao, Jun

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: As a successful improvement on Low Rank Representation (LRR), Latent Low Rank Representation (LatLRR) has been one of the state-of-the-art models for subspace clustering due to the capability of discovering the low dimensional subspace structures of data, especially when the data samples are insufficient and/or extremely corrupted. However, the LatLRR method does not consider the nonlinear geometric structures within data, which leads to the loss of the locality information among data in the learning phase. Moreover, the coefficients of the learnt representation matrix can be negative, which lack the interpretability. To solve the above drawbacks of LatLRR, this paper introduces …Laplacian, sparsity and non-negativity to LatLRR model and proposes a novel subspace clustering method, termed latent low rank representation with non-negative, sparse and laplacian constraints (NNSLLatLRR), in which we jointly take into account non-negativity, sparsity and laplacian properties of the learnt representation. As a result, the NNSLLatLRR can not only capture the global low dimensional structure and intrinsic non-linear geometric information of the data, but also enhance the interpretability of the learnt representation. Extensive experiments on two face benchmark datasets and a handwritten digit dataset show that our proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art subspace clustering methods. Show more

Keywords: Subspace clustering, low rank representation, latent low rank representation, non-negative sparse laplacian constraints

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210274

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12151-12165, 2021

Authors: Liu, Luping | Wang, Meiling | He, Xiaohai | Qing, Linbo | Zhang, Jin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Joint extraction of entities and relations from unstructured text is an essential step in constructing a knowledge base. However, relational facts in these texts are often complicated, where most of them contain overlapping triplets, making the joint extraction task still challenging. This paper proposes a novel Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) framework to handle the overlapping issue, which models the triplet extraction as a sequence generation task. Specifically, a unique cascade structure is proposed to connect transformer and pointer network to extract entities and relations jointly. By this means, sequences can be generated in triplet-level and it speeds up the decoding process. Besides, …a syntax-guided encoder is applied to integrate the sentence’s syntax structure into the transformer encoder explicitly, which helps the encoder pay more accurate attention to the syntax-related words. Extensive experiments were conducted on three public datasets, named NYT24, NYT29, and WebNLG, and the results show the validity of this model by comparing with various baselines. In addition, a pre-trained BERT model is also employed as the encoder. Then it comes up to excellent performance that the F1 scores on the three datasets surpass the strongest baseline by 5.7%, 5.6%, and 4.4%. Show more

Keywords: Information extraction, sequence to sequence, transformer network, pointer network, syntax-guided attention network

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210281

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12167-12183, 2021

Authors: Gao, Xiue | Jiang, Panling | Xie, Wenxue | Chen, Yufeng | Zhou, Shengbin | Chen, Bo

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Decision fusion is an effective way to resolve the conflict of diagnosis results. Aiming at the problem that Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory deals with the high conflict of evidence and produces wrong results, a decision fusion algorithm for fault diagnosis based on closeness and DS theory is proposed. Firstly, the relevant concepts of DS theory are introduced, and the normal distribution membership function is used as the evidence closeness. Secondly, the harmonic average is introduced, and the weight of each evidence is established according to the product of closeness of each evidence and its harmonic average. Thirdly, the weight of conflicting …evidence is regularized, and the final decision fusion result is obtained by using the Dempster’s rule. Lastly, the simulation and application examples are designed. Simulation and application results show that the method can effectively reduce the impact of diagnostic information conflicts and improve the accuracy of decision fusion. What’s more, the method considers the overall average distribution of evidence in the identification framework, it can reduce evidence conflicts while preserving important diagnostic information. Show more

Keywords: Fault diagnosis, decision fusion, DS theory, closeness, harmonic average

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210283

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12185-12194, 2021

Authors: Chen, Ting-Yu

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to evolve a novel area-based Pythagorean fuzzy decision model via an approach-oriented measure and an avoidance-oriented measure in support of multiple criteria decision analysis involving intricate uncertainty of Pythagorean fuzziness. Pythagorean membership grades embedded in a Pythagorean fuzzy set is featured by tensible functions of membership, non-membership, indeterminacy, strength, and direction, which delivers flexibility and adaptability in manipulating higher-order uncertainties. However, a well-defined ordered structure is never popular in real-life issues, seldom seen in Pythagorean fuzzy circumstances. Consider that point operators can make a systematic allocation of the indeterminacy composition contained in Pythagorean fuzzy …information. This paper exploits the codomains of the point operations (i.e., the quantities that express the extents of point operators) to launch new measurements of approach orientation and avoidance orientation for performance ratings. This paper employs such measurements to develop an area-based performance index and an area-based comprehensive index for conducting a decision analysis. The applications and comparative analyses of the advanced area-based approach to some decision-making problems concerning sustainable recycling partner selection, company investment decisions, stock investment decisions, and working capital financing decisions give support to methodological advantages and practical effectiveness. Show more

Keywords: Area-based Pythagorean fuzzy decision model, approach-oriented measure, avoidance-oriented measure, multiple criteria decision analysis, Pythagorean fuzziness

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210290

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12195-12213, 2021

Authors: Ghafarokhi, Omid Izadi | Moattari, Mazda | Forouzantabar, Ahmad

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With the development of the wide-area monitoring system (WAMS), power system operators are capable of providing an accurate and fast estimation of time-varying load parameters. This study proposes a spatial-temporal deep network-based new attention concept to capture the dynamic and static patterns of electrical load consumption through modeling complicated and non-stationary interdependencies between time sequences. The designed deep attention-based network benefits from long short-term memory (LSTM) based component to learning temporal features in time and frequency-domains as encoder-decoder based recurrent neural network. Furthermore, to inherently learn spatial features, a convolutional neural network (CNN) based attention mechanism is developed. Besides, this …paper develops a loss function based on a pseudo-Huber concept to enhance the robustness of the proposed network in noisy conditions as well as improve the training performance. The simulation results on IEEE 68-bus demonstrates the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed network through comparison with several previously presented and state-of-the-art methods. Show more

Keywords: Composite load modeling, deep attention neural network, encoder-decoder, long short-term memory, convolutional neural network, wide-area monitoring system

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210296

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12215-12226, 2021

Authors: Gasmi, Ibtissem | Azizi, Mohamed Walid | Seridi-Bouchelaghem, Hassina | Azizi, Nabiha | Belhaouari, Samir Brahim

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Context-Aware Recommender System (CARS) suggests more relevant services by adapting them to the user’s specific context situation. Nevertheless, the use of many contextual factors can increase data sparsity while few context parameters fail to introduce the contextual effects in recommendations. Moreover, several CARSs are based on similarity algorithms, such as cosine and Pearson correlation coefficients. These methods are not very effective in the sparse datasets. This paper presents a context-aware model to integrate contextual factors into prediction process when there are insufficient co-rated items. The proposed algorithm uses Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to learn the latent interests of users from …the textual descriptions of items. Then, it integrates both the explicit contextual factors and their degree of importance in the prediction process by introducing a weighting function. Indeed, the PSO algorithm is employed to learn and optimize weights of these features. The results on the Movielens 1 M dataset show that the proposed model can achieve an F-measure of 45.51% with precision as 68.64%. Furthermore, the enhancement in MAE and RMSE can respectively reach 41.63% and 39.69% compared with the state-of-the-art techniques. Show more

Keywords: Collaborative filtering, context, topic modeling, PSO, LDA, sparsity problem

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210331

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12227-12242, 2021

Authors: Xu, Kaijie | E, Hanyu | Quan, Yinghui | Cui, Ye | Nie, Weike

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this study, we develop a novel clustering with double fuzzy factors to enhance the performance of the granulation-degranulation mechanism, with which a fuzzy rule-based model is designed and demonstrated to be an enhanced one. The essence of the developed scheme is to optimize the construction of the information granules so as to eventually improve the performance of the fuzzy rule-based models. In the design process, a prototype matrix is defined to express the Fuzzy C-Means based granulation-degranulation mechanism in a clear manner. We assume that the dataset degranulated from the formed information granules is equal to the original numerical …dataset. Then, a clustering method with double fuzzy factors is derived. We also present a detailed mathematical proof for the proposed approach. Subsequently, on the basis of the enhanced version of the granulation-degranulation mechanism, we design a granular fuzzy model. The whole design is mainly focused on an efficient application of the fuzzy clustering to build information granules used in fuzzy rule-based models. Comprehensive experimental studies demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme. Show more

Keywords: Partition matrix, granulation-degranulation mechanism, information granules, fuzzy clustering, rule-based models, prototype matrix

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210336

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12243-12252, 2021

Authors: Ahkouk, Karam | Machkour, Mustapha | Majhadi, Khadija | Mama, Rachid

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In the last decade, many intelligent interfaces and layers have been suggested to allow the use of relational databases and extraction of the content using only the natural language. However most of them struggle when exposed to new databases. In this article, we present SQLSketch, a sketch-based network for generating SQL queries to address the problem of automatically translate Natural Languages questions to SQL using the related databases schemas. We argue that the previous models that use full or partial sequence-to-sequence structure in the decoding phase can, in fact, have counter-effect on the generation operation and came up with more …loss of the context or the meaning of the user question. In this regard, we use a full sketch-based structure that decouples the generation process into many small prediction modules. The SQLSketch is evaluated against GreatSQL, a new cross-domain, large-scale and balanced dataset for the Natural Language to SQL translation task. For a long-term aim of making better models and contributing in adding more improvements to the semantic parsing tasks, we propose the GreatSQL dataset as the first balanced cross-domain corpus that includes 45,969 pairs of natural language questions and their corresponding SQL queries in addition to simplified and well structured ground-truth annotations. We establish results for SQLSketch using GreatSQL dataset and compare the performance against two popular types of models that represent the sequential and partial-sketch based approaches. Experimental result shows that SQLSketch outperforms the baseline models by 13% in exact matching accuracy and achieve a score of 23.9% to be the new state-of-the-art model on GreatSQL. Show more

Keywords: Natural language processing, text to SQL translation, database interfaces, natural language translation, machine translation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210359

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12253-12263, 2021

Authors: Zhong, Xianyou | Gao, Xiang | Mei, Quan | Huang, Tianwei | Zhao, Xiao

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Gear fault vibration signals are commonly non-stationary, and useful fault information is often buried in heavy noise, which makes it difficult to extract gear fault features. How to select the suitable fault frequency bands is the key to gear fault diagnosis. To address the above problems, a method combining the improved minimum entropy deconvolution (MED) and accugram, named IMEDA, is proposed for extracting gear fault features. Firstly, a selection index based on permutation entropy (PE) and correlation coefficient is defined. Then, the optimal filter length can be effectively selected by the step-length searching method using the proposed index as objective …function, and the improved MED is employed to preprocess the gear vibration signals. Finally, the accugram analysis is performed for the preprocessed signals to obtain the optimal frequency band, and the fault characteristic frequencies are extracted from the square envelope spectrum of the signals in the optimal band. The method is validated by gear experimental data with gear wear-out failure. The analysis results demonstrate that the proposed method owns superior effect by comparing with the fast kurtogram (FK), MED combined with FK (MED-FK), accugram and infogram. Show more

Keywords: Minimum entropy deconvolution, accugram, frequency band selection, fault feature extraction

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210405

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12265-12282, 2021

Authors: An, Qing | Tang, Ruoli | Su, Hongfeng | Zhang, Jun | Li, Xin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Due to the promising performance on energy-saving, the building integrated photovoltaic system (BIPV) has found an increasingly wide utilization in modern cities. For a large-scale PV array installed on the facades of a super high-rise building, the environmental conditions (e.g., the irradiance, temperature, sunlight angle etc.) are always complex and dynamic. As a result, the PV configuration and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methodology are of great importance for both the operational safety and efficiency. In this study, some famous PV configurations are comprehensively tested under complex shading conditions in BIPV application, and a robust configuration for large-scale BIPV system …based on the total-cross-tied (TCT) circuit connection is developed. Then, by analyzing and extracting the feature variables of environment parameters, a novel fast MPPT methodology based on extreme learning machine (ELM) is proposed. Finally, the proposed configuration and its MPPT methodology are verified by simulation experiments. Experimental results show that the proposed configuration performs efficient on most of the complex shading conditions, and the ELM-based intelligent MPPT methodology can also obtain promising performance on response speed and tracking accuracy. Show more

Keywords: Building integrated photovoltaic system, maximum power point tracking, PV configuration, intelligent control, extreme learning machine

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210424

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12283-12300, 2021

Authors: Li, Huanhuan | Ji, Ying | Qu, Shaojian

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Decision-makers usually have a variety of unsure situations in the environment of group decision-making. In this paper, we resolve this difficulty by constructing two-stage stochastic integrated adjustment deviations and consensus models (iADCMs). By introducing the minimum cost consensus models (MCCMs) with costs direction constraints and stochastic programming, we develop three types of iADCMs with an uncertainty of asymmetric costs and initial opinions. The factors of directional constraints, compromise limits and free adjustment thresholds previously thought to affect consensus separately are considered in the proposed models. Different from the previous consensus models, the resulting iADCMs are solved by designing an appropriate …L-shaped algorithm. On the application in the negotiations on Grains to Green Programs (GTGP) in China, the proposed models are demonstrated to be more robust. The proposed iADCMs are compared to the MCCMs in an asymmetric costs context. The contrasting outcomes show that the two-stage stochastic iADCMs with no-cost threshold have the smallest total costs. Moreover, based on the case study, we give a sensitivity analysis of the uncertainty of asymmetric adjustment cost. Finally, conclusion and future research prospects are provided. Show more

Keywords: Two-stage stochastic integrated adjustment deviations and consensus model, directional constraints, uncertain adjustment costs, uncertainty initial opinions, L-shaped algorithm

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210443

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12301-12319, 2021

Authors: Al-Tarawneh, Ahmed | Al-Saraireh, Ja’afer

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Twitter is one of the most popular platforms used to share and post ideas. Hackers and anonymous attackers use these platforms maliciously, and their behavior can be used to predict the risk of future attacks, by gathering and classifying hackers’ tweets using machine-learning techniques. Previous approaches for detecting infected tweets are based on human efforts or text analysis, thus they are limited to capturing the hidden text between tweet lines. The main aim of this research paper is to enhance the efficiency of hacker detection for the Twitter platform using the complex networks technique with adapted machine learning algorithms. This …work presents a methodology that collects a list of users with their followers who are sharing their posts that have similar interests from a hackers’ community on Twitter. The list is built based on a set of suggested keywords that are the commonly used terms by hackers in their tweets. After that, a complex network is generated for all users to find relations among them in terms of network centrality, closeness, and betweenness. After extracting these values, a dataset of the most influential users in the hacker community is assembled. Subsequently, tweets belonging to users in the extracted dataset are gathered and classified into positive and negative classes. The output of this process is utilized with a machine learning process by applying different algorithms. This research build and investigate an accurate dataset containing real users who belong to a hackers’ community. Correctly, classified instances were measured for accuracy using the average values of K-nearest neighbor, Naive Bayes, Random Tree, and the support vector machine techniques, demonstrating about 90% and 88% accuracy for cross-validation and percentage split respectively. Consequently, the proposed network cyber Twitter model is able to detect hackers, and determine if tweets pose a risk to future institutions and individuals to provide early warning of possible attacks. Show more

Keywords: Tweets, hacking, prediction, twitter, social networks

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210458

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12321-12337, 2021

Authors: Ling, Chunyan | Lu, Zhenzhou

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: To measure the effects of the fuzzy inputs on structural safety degree, this paper establishes the failure credibility-based global sensitivity by the fuzzy expected value of the absolute difference between the unconditional failure credibility and conditional one. To establish the failure credibility-based global sensitivity, the conditional failure credibility is firstly defined according to the original definition of conditional event and the relationship among the possibility, necessity and credibility, in which no extra assumption is introduced. After that, the equivalent expression of the failure credibility is deduced, on which the Bayesian transformation of the conditional failure credibility is obtained in this …paper. Then, a single-loop method based on the sequential quadratic programming is applied to efficiently estimate the defined failure credibility-based global sensitivity. According to the result of the constructed failure credibility-based global sensitivity, designers can pay more attentions to the more important fuzzy inputs to have a better control of the structural safety degree. The presented examples demonstrate the feasibility of the constructed failure credibility-based global sensitivity and the efficiency of the proposed solution. Show more

Keywords: Fuzzy input, failure credibility, global sensitivity, fuzzy expected value, conditional failure credibility, sequential quadratic programming

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210461

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12339-12359, 2021

Authors: Song, Xudong | Zhu, Dajie | Liang, Pan | An, Lu

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Although the existing transfer learning method based on deep learning can realize bearing fault diagnosis under variable load working conditions, it is difficult to obtain bearing fault data and the training data of fault diagnosis model is insufficient£¬which leads to the low accuracy and generalization ability of fault diagnosis model, A fault diagnosis method based on improved elastic net transfer learning under variable load working conditions is proposed. The improved elastic net transfer learning is used to suppress the over fitting and improve the training efficiency of the model, and the long short-term memory network is introduced to train the …fault diagnosis model, then a small amount of target domain data is used to fine tune the model parameters. Finally, the fault diagnosis model under variable load working conditions based on improved elastic net transfer learning is constructed. Finally, through model experiments and comparison with conventional deep learning fault diagnosis models such as long short-term memory network (LSTM), gated recurrent unit (GRU) and Bi-LSTM, it shows that the proposed method has higher accuracy and better generalization ability, which verifies the effectiveness of the method. Show more

Keywords: Elastic net, fault diagnosis, LSTM, transfer learning

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210503

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12361-12369, 2021

Authors: Zou, Yuan | Yang, Daoli | Pan, Yuchen

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely-used tool for measuring the overall situation of a country’s economic activity within a specified period of time. A more accurate forecasting of GDP based on standardized procedures with known samples available is conducive to guide decision making of government, enterprises and individuals. This study devotes to enhance the accuracy regarding GDP forecasting with given sample of historical data. To achieve this purpose, the study incorporates artificial neural network (ANN) into grey Markov chain model to modify the residual error, thus develops a novel hybrid model called grey Markov chain with ANN error …correction (abbreviated as GMCM_ANN), which assembles the advantages of three components to fit nonlinear forecasting with limited sample sizes. The new model has been tested by adopting the historical data, which includes the original GDP data of the United States, Japan, China and India from 2000 to 2019, and also provides predications on four countries’ GDP up to 2022. Four models including autoregressive integrated moving average model, back-propagation neural network, the traditional GM(1,1) and grey Markov chain model are as benchmarks for comparison of the predicted accuracy and application scope. The obtained results are satisfactory and indicate superior forecasting performance of the proposed approach in terms of accuracy and universality. Show more

Keywords: Gross domestic product, grey Markov chain, artificial neural network, residual correction, forecasting

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210509

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12371-12381, 2021

Authors: Noon, Serosh Karim | Amjad, Muhammad | Ali Qureshi, Muhammad | Mannan, Abdul

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Cotton is an important commodity because of its use in various industries across the globe. It is grown in many countries and is imported/exported as a cash crop due to its large utility. However, cotton yield is adversely affected by the existence of pests, viruses and pathogenic bacteria, etc. For the last one decade or so, several image processing/deep learning-based automatic plant leaf disease recognition methods have been developed but, unfortunately, they rarely address the cotton leaf diseases. The proposed work presents a simple yet efficient deep learning-based framework to recognize cotton leaf diseases. The proposed model is capable of …achieving the near ideal accuracy with early convergence to save computational cost of training. Further, due to the unavailability of publicly available datasets for this crop, a dataset is also collected comprising of three diseases namely curl virus, bacterial blight and fusarium wilt in addition to the healthy leaf Images. These images were collected from the Internet and fields of Southern Punjab region in Pakistan where the cotton crop is grown on thousands of acres every year and is exported to the Europe and the US either as a raw material or in the form of knitted industrial/domestic products. Experimental results have shown that almost all variants of our proposed deep learning framework have shown remarkably good recognition accuracy and precision. However, proposed EfficientNet-B0 model achieves 99.95% accuracy in only 152 seconds with best generalization and fast inference. Show more

Keywords: Cotton leaf disease, efficientnet, mobilenet, deep leaning, agriculture

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210516

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12383-12398, 2021

Authors: Abughazalah, Nabilah | Khan, Majid | Munir, Noor | Zafar, Amna

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this article, we have designed a new scheme for the construction of the nonlinear confusion component. Our mechanism uses the notion of a semigroup, Inverse LA-semigroup, and various other loops. With the help of these mathematical structures, we can easily build our confusion component namely substitution boxes (S-boxes) without having specialized structures. We authenticate our proposed methodology by incorporating the available cryptographic benchmarks. Moreover, we have utilized the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to select the best nonlinear confusion component. With the aid of this multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), one can easily select the …best possible confusion component while selecting among various available nonlinear confusion components. Show more

Keywords: Nonlinear confusion component, semigroup, loop, TOPSIS, MCDM

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210524

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12399-12410, 2021

Authors: Wang, H.Y. | Wang, J.S. | Zhu, L.F.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm is a widely used method in data mining. However, there is a big limitation that the predefined number of clustering must be given. So it is very important to find an optimal number of clusters. Therefore, a new validity function of FCM clustering algorithm is proposed to verify the validity of the clustering results. This function is defined based on the intra-class compactness and inter-class separation from the fuzzy membership matrix, the data similarity between classes and the geometric structure of the data set, whose minimum value represents the optimal clustering partition result. The proposed …clustering validity function and seven traditional clustering validity functions are experimentally verified on four artificial data sets and six UCI data sets. The simulation results show that the proposed validity function can obtain the optimal clustering number of the data set more accurately, and can still find the more accurate clustering number under the condition of changing the fuzzy weighted index, which has strong adaptability and robustness. Show more

Keywords: Fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm, clustering validity function, membership matrix, intra-class compactness, inter-class separation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210555

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12411-12432, 2021

Authors: Yavuz, Enes

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: We define statistical Cesàro and statistical logarithmic summability methods of sequences in intuitionistic fuzzy normed spaces(IFNS ) and give slowly oscillating type and Hardy type Tauberian conditions under which statistical Cesàro summability and statistical logarithmic summability imply convergence in IFNS . Besides, we obtain analogous results for the higher order summability methods as corollaries. Also, two theorems concerning the convergence of statistically convergent sequences in IFNS are proved in the paper.

Keywords: Intuitionistic fuzzy normed space, tauberian theorem, cesàro and logarithmic summability methods, statistical convergence, slow oscillation, 03E72, 40A05, 40G05, 40G15, 40E05

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210596

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12433-12442, 2021

Authors: Wang, Fang | Li, Hai-Mei | Li, Yan-Lai | Wu, Ai-Ping

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-oriented tool for developing products. Based on the idea of the best-worst method (BWM), a novel model is developed to determine the relative importance ratings (RIRs) of customer requirements (CRs) with interval grey linguistic (IGL) information, which plays a significant role in QFD. CRs are rated with IGL variables, and the degree of greyness degree function that can be used to handle the IGL variables is defined based on the power utility function. Then, considering customer heterogeneity, a model is constructed to derive the RIRs of CRs by following the logic of the BWM. …Finally, a case study of 5 G smartphone development is provided to verify the validity and the feasibility of the proposed method. Show more

Keywords: Customer requirements, QFD, interval grey linguistic, best-worst method, utility function

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-210799

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12443-12458, 2021

Authors: Lu, Hanchuan | Khalil, Ahmed Mostafa | Alharbi, W. | El-Gayar, M. A.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract:  In this article, we propose a novel concept of the generalized picture fuzzy soft set by combining the picture fuzzy soft set and the fuzzy parameter set. For possible applications, we explain five kinds of operations (e.g., subset, equal, union, intersection, and complement) based on generalized picture fuzzy soft sets. Then, we establish several theoretical operations of generalized picture fuzzy soft sets. In addition, we present the new type by using the AND operation of the generalized picture fuzzy soft set for fuzzy decision-making and clarify its applicability with a numerical example. Finally, we give a comparison between the picture …fuzzy soft set theory and the generalized picture fuzzy soft set theory. It is shown that our proposed (i.e., generalized picture fuzzy soft set theory) is viable and provide decision makers a more mathematical insight before making decisions on their options. Show more

Keywords: Picture fuzzy set, soft set, generalized picture fuzzy soft set, Algorithm 1, Algorithm 2, decision-making

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-201706

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12459-12475, 2021

Authors: Hamdoun, Hala | Sagheer, Alaa | Youness, Hassan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Machine learning methods have been adopted in the literature as contenders to conventional methods to solve the energy time series forecasting (TSF) problems. Recently, deep learning methods have been emerged in the artificial intelligence field attaining astonishing performance in a wide range of applications. Yet, the evidence about their performance in to solve the energy TSF problems, in terms of accuracy and computational requirements, is scanty. Most of the review articles that handle the energy TSF problem are systematic reviews, however, a qualitative and quantitative study for the energy TSF problem is not yet available in the literature. The purpose …of this paper is twofold, first it provides a comprehensive analytical assessment for conventional, machine learning, and deep learning methods that can be utilized to solve various energy TSF problems. Second, the paper carries out an empirical assessment for many selected methods through three real-world datasets. These datasets related to electrical energy consumption problem, natural gas problem, and electric power consumption of an individual household problem. The first two problems are univariate TSF and the third problem is a multivariate TSF. Compared to both conventional and machine learning contenders, the deep learning methods attain a significant improvement in terms of accuracy and forecasting horizons examined. In the meantime, their computational requirements are notably greater than other contenders. Eventually, the paper identifies a number of challenges, potential research directions, and recommendations to the research community may serve as a basis for further research in the energy forecasting domain. Show more

Keywords: Energy time series forecasting, conventional forecasting methods, machine learning, deep learning, energy management systems

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-201717

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12477-12502, 2021

Authors: Zhang, Na | Yan, Shuli | Fang, Zhigeng | Yang, Baohua

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In view of the situation that tasks or activities in the GERT model may have multiple realizations, this paper explores the time dependence of each repeated execution node under the condition of fuzzy information, and studies the characteristics of the z-tag fuzzy GERT model and its analytic algorithm. Firstly, the F-GERT model related to the number of executions of activities is defined, and the simplified rules, related properties and theorems of the network model are examined. Secondly, solving algorithm, conditional moment generating function and process arrival time of the F-GERT model for repeated execution time are studied. Finally, the application …of F-GERT queuing system based on element execution time in weapon equipment management is discussed. The feasibility and effectiveness of the model and algorithm are verified by the practical application of the project. Show more

Keywords: Project management, GERT model, fuzzy information, z-tag, moment generating function, network structure

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-201731

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 12503-12519, 2021