Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems - Volume Pre-press, issue Pre-press

Authors: Gnanasundari, P. | Sheela Sobana Rani, K.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a new technology that helps with a variety of practical uses, involving healthcare and monitoring the environment. In recent years, security has been considered as important topic in WSN since it is vulnerable to several security threats. Recent works uses cryptographic techniques to ensure security in WSN. In existing works, the security methodologies require high resources but still assure low level security. To resolve this issue, this paper proposes a node validation method which is lightweight as well as assures high level security. The main idea behind this work is to integrate Blockchain technology with …WSN environment. We presented a novel Blockchain-assisted Node Validation (BlockNode) methodology for ensuring high level security. To maintain energy efficiency, the network is segregated into multiple clusters by Valid Cluster Formation (VCF) approach. In each cluster, optimum CH is selected by using type-II fuzzy algorithm. The VCF approach only allows the valid nodes which are authorized by Blockchain validation. Then, the data transmission is secured by Jacobian Curve Encryption (JCE) algorithm. For optimal route selection, Energy-aware Reinforcement Learning (ERL) algorithm is proposed. Overall, the proposed work high level security with minimum resource consumption. The experimental results obtained from NS-3.25 simulation tool confirms that the proposed work achieves better performance in security level, encryption & decryption time, delay, energy consumption, delivery ratio and throughput. Show more

Keywords: Node Validation, energy efficiency, cybersecurity, blockchain, WSN

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230020

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Anandha Kumar, M. | Shanmuga Priya, M. | Arunprakash, R.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In the past couple of years, neural networks have gained widespread use in network security analysis. This type of analysis is usually performed in a nonlinear and highly correlated manner. Due to the immense amount of data traffic, the current models are prone to false alarms and poor detection. Deep-learning models can help security researchers identify and extract data features that are related to an attack. They can also minimize the data’s dimensionality and detect intrusions. Unfortunately, the complexity of the network structure and hidden neurons of a deep-learning model can be set by error-prone procedures. In order to improve …the performance of deep learning models, a new algorithm is proposed. This method combines a gradient boost regression and particle swarm optimization. The proposes a method called the Spark-DBN-SVM-GBR algorithm. The simulations conducted proposed algorithm revealed that it has a better accuracy rate than other deep learning models and the experiments conducted on the PSO-GBR algorithm revealed that it performed better than the current optimization technique when detecting unauthorized attack activities. Show more

Keywords: Intrusion detection, Apache Spark, Support vector machine (SVM), particle swarm optimization and gradient boost regression

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-221351

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-9, 2023

Authors: Li, Junwei | Liu, Huanyu | Jin, Yong | Zhao, Aoxiang

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Research on conflict evidence fusion is an important topic of evidence theory. When fusing conflicting evidence, Dempster-Shafer evidence theory sometimes produces counter-intuitive results. Thus, this work proposes a conflict evidence fusion method based on improved conflict coefficient and belief entropy. Firstly, the proposed method uses an improved conflict coefficient to measure the degree of conflict, and the conflict matrix is constructed to get the support degree of evidence. Secondly, in order to measure the uncertainty of evidence, an improved belief entropy is proposed, and the information volume of evidence is obtained by the improve entropy. Next, connecting with the support …degree and information volume, We get the weight coefficient, and use it to modify the evidence. Finally, using the combination rule of Dempster for fusion. Simulation experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method in this paper. Show more

Keywords: Evidence theory, conflict evidence, conflict coefficient, beleief entropy, combination rule

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-221507

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Khatab, Hussein Ageel | Shareef, Salah Gazi

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The conjugate gradient (CG) techniques are a class of unconstrained optimization algorithms with strong local and global convergence qualities and minimal memory needs. While the quasi-Newton methods are reliable and efficient on a wide range of problems and these methods are converge faster than the conjugate gradient methods and require fewer function evaluations, however, they are request substantially more storage, and if the problem is ill-conditioned, they may require several iterations. There is another class, termed preconditioned conjugate gradient method, it is a technique that combines two methods conjugate gradient with quasi-Newton. In this work, we proposed a new two …limited memory preconditioned conjugate gradient methods (New1 and New2), to solve nonlinear unconstrained minimization problems, by using new modified symmetric rank one (NMSR1) and new modified Davidon, Fletcher, Powell (NMDFP), and also using projected vectors. We proved that these modifications fulfill some conditions. Also, the descent condition of the new technique has been proved. The numerical results showed the efficiency of the proposed new algorithms compared with some standard nonlinear, unconstrained problems. Show more

Keywords: Unconstrained optimization, projected quasi-newton methods, preconditioned conjugate gradient methods, limited memory preconditioned conjugate gradient methods

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233081

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Adar, Tuba | Delice, Elif Kılıç | Delice, Orhan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Accurate and rapid diagnosis is a significant factor in reducing incidence rate; especially when the number of people inflicted with a disease is considerably high. In the healthcare sector, the decision-making process might be a complex and error-prone one due to excessive workload, negligence, time restrictions, incorrect or incomplete evaluation of medical reports and analyses, and lack of experience as well as insufficient knowledge and skills. Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) are those developed to improve effectiveness of decisions by supporting physicians’ decision-making process regarding their patients. In this study, a new artificial intelligence-based CDSS and a user-friendly interface for …this system were developed to ensure rapid and accurate detection of pandemic diseases. The proposed CDSS, which is called panCdss, uses hybrid models consisting of the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model and Machine Learning (ML) methods in order to detect covid-19 from lung computed tomography (CT) images. Transfer Learning (TL) models were used to detect monkeypox from skin lesion images and covid-19 from chest X-Ray images. The results obtained from these models were evaluated according to accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score performance metrics. Of these models, the ones with the highest classification performance were used in the panCdss. The highest classification values obtained for each dataset were as follows: % 91.71 accuracy, % 92.07 precision, % 90.29 recall and % 91.71 F1-score for covid-19 CT dataset by using CNN+RF hybrid model; % 99.56 accuracy, % 100 precision, % 99.12 recall and % 99.55 F1-score for covid-19 X-ray dataset by using VGG16 model; and % 90.38 accuracy, % 93.32 precision, % 88.11 recall and % 90.64 F1-score for monkeypox dataset by using MobileNetV2. It is believed that panCdss can be successfully employed for rapid and accurate classification of pandemic diseases and can help reduce physicians’ workload. Furthermore, the study showed that the proposed CDSS is an adaptable, flexible and dynamic system that can be practiced not only for the detection of pandemic diseases but also for other diseases. To the authors’ knowledge, this proposed CDSS is the first CDSS developed for pandemic disease detection. Show more

Keywords: Clinical decision support system, artificial intelligence, deep learning, user interface, pandemic diseases

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232477

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Ramesh, Janjhyam Venkata Naga | Sucharitha, G. | Sankardass, Veeramalai | Rani, R. | Bhat, Nagaraj | Kiran, Ajmeera | Rajaram, A.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Although difficult, robust and reliable synchronization of multimodal medical pictures has several practical uses. For instance, in MR-TRUS fusing guided prostate treatments, picture registration between the two modalities is essential. However, due to the significant variety in image appearance and correlation, MR-TRUS picture registration remains a challenging issue. In this research, we suggest employing deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) i.e. three dimensional CNN U-NET (3D-Conv-Net) to develop a resemblance measure for MR-TRUS registration. Finally, for the second-order optimal of the taught measure, we apply a composite optimisation method that searches the solution space for an appropriate starting point. We also …use a multi-stage process to improve the optimisation metric. Show more

Keywords: Image registration, convolutional neural networks, multimodal image fusion, and prostate cancer

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235744

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Kaijun, Zhao

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: To enhance the psychological resilience of athletes, a method for evaluating the psychological resilience of High-intensity Interval Training (HIIT) athletes based on evolutionary neural networks is studied. From the six criteria of frustration coping, personal characteristics, self-promotion, self-regulation, internal protection and external protection, the evaluation index of psychological resilience of athletes in sports High-intensity Interval Training is selected; the audition indicators are qualitatively analyzed according to the principle of indicator selection, and the indicators that do not meet the requirements are eliminated; Cluster analysis and coefficient of variation analysis are used to carry out quantitative analysis on the remaining evaluation …indicators after qualitative analysis; the indicators after quantitative analysis are improved, to build the assessment index system of psychological resilience of athletes in high-intensity sports training. The Back Propagation (BP) neural network is optimized by a genetic algorithm, and the evolutionary neural network is constructed. The index data set is input into the evolutionary neural network as a sample, and the index weight value is output through training. The evaluation result and corresponding evaluation grade are determined based on the index weight value and membership degree. The experimental results show that when the number of hidden layers is 3, the calculation of evaluation index weights is the best; The weight of personal traits obtained from the evaluation results is the highest (0.206), while the weight of external protection is the lowest (0.151), and the evaluation results are basically consistent with the expert results. The above results show that this method can accurately evaluate the psychological resilience of athletes and significantly enhance their psychological resilience. Show more

Keywords: Evolutionary neural network, evaluation of psychological resilience, index system construction, genetic algorithm, weight calculation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233299

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Wang, Hui | Liu, Ensheng | Wei, Hokai

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: A machine for tunnel boring machine (TBM ) is recognized as productive equipment for tunnel construction. A dependable and precise tunnel boring machine’s performance (such as penetration rate (ROP )) prediction could reduce the cost and help choose the suitable construction method. Hence, this research develops new integrated artificial intelligence methods, i.e., biogeography-based multilayer perceptron neural network (BMLP ) and biogeography-based support vector regression (BSVR ), to forecast TBM PR . Using the biogeography-based optimization (BBO ) algorithm aims to improve the developed model’s performance by determining the optimized neuron number of hidden layers for MLP models and …the ideal values of the essential variables of SVR method. The results show that advanced methods can productively make a nonlinear relation among the ROP and its forecasters to obtain a satisfying forecast. Amongst the BMLP models with several hidden substrates, BM 5L with five hidden substrates could attain the total ranking score (TRS ) greatest rate, with root mean squared error (RMSE ) and coefficient of determination (R 2 ) equal to 0.017 and 0.9969. Simultaneously, the BSVR was the supreme model because of the fewer RMSE (0.00497 m /hr ) and a larger R 2 (0.999) compared with BMLP models. Overall, the acquired TRS s show that the BSVR outperforms the BMLP in terms of performance. As a consequence, the BSVR model may have been chosen as the suggested model if it had been able to accurately forecast the observed value even better than BM 5L . Show more

Keywords: Tunnel boring machine, penetration rate, biogeography-based multilayer perceptron neural network (BMLP), biogeography-based support vector regression (BSVR)

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232989

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Zhou, Sijiang | Mo, Kanglin | Yang, Xia | Ning, Zong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: This research aims to pinpoint key biomarkers and immunological infiltration of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) through bioinformatics analysis. METHODS: From the GEO database, 12 gene expression profiles were obtained. The LIMMA tool in Bioconductor accustomed to identify the genes that are expressed differently (DEGs), and analyses of functional enrichment were performed. A protein-protein interaction network (PPI) was constructed using STRING and Cytoscape, and a modular analysis was performed. Analysis of the immunological infiltration of lung tissue between IPF and healthy groups was done using the CIBERSORTx method. RESULTS: 11,130 genes with differential expression (including 7,492 …up-regulated and 3,638 down-regulated) were found. The selected up-regulated DEGs were mainly involved in the progression of pulmonary fibrosis and the selected down-regulated DEGs maintain the relative stability of intracellular microenvironment, according to functional enrichment analysis. KEGG enrichment analysis revealed that up-regulated DEGs were primarily abundant in the PI3K-Akt signaling mechanism, whereas down-regulated DEGs were associated with cancer pathways. The most significant modules involving 8 hub genes were found after the PPI network was analyzed. IPF lung tissue had a greater percentage of B memory cells, plasma cells, T cells follicular helper, T cells regulatory, T cells gamma delta, macrophages M0 and resting mast cells. while a relatively low proportion of T cells CD4 memory resting, NK cells resting and neutrophils. CONCLUSION: This research demonstrates the differences of hub genes and immunological infiltration in IPF. Show more

Keywords: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, biomarkers, immunological infiltration, lung tissue, bioinformatics analysis

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234957

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Shanthi, A.S. | Ignisha Rajathi, G. | Velumani, R. | Srihari, K.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In older people, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a precursor to more severe forms of dementia like AD (AD). In diagnosing patients with primary AD and amnestic MCI, modern neuroimaging techniques, especially MRI, play a key role. To efficiently categorize MRI images as normal or abnormal, the research presents a machine learning-based automatic labelling system, with a focus on boosting performance via texture feature analysis. To this end, the research implements a preprocessing phase employing Log Gabor filters, which are particularly well-suited for spatial frequency analysis. In addition, the research uses Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO) to acquire useful information from …the images. For classification tasks using the MRI images, the research also make use of DenseNets, a form of deep neural network. The proposed method leverages Log Gabor filters for preprocessing, Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO) for feature extraction, and DenseNets for classification, resulting in a robust approach for categorizing MRI images as normal or abnormal. When compared to earlier trials performed without optimization, the proposed systematic technique shows a significant increase in classification accuracy of 15% . For neuroimaging applications, our research emphasizes the use of Log Gabor filters for preprocessing, GWO for feature extraction, and DenseNets for classification, which can help with the early detection and diagnosis of MCI and AD. Show more

Keywords: Dementia, mild cognitive impairment, MRI, AD, Gray Wolf Optimization, DenseNets, log gabor filter

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235118

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Ramasamy, Karthikeyan | Sundaramurthy, Arivoli | Vaithiyalingam, Chitra

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The primary goal is to enhance the PSN by maintaining stable and consistent MGS operation and reestablishing stable operating conditions after generational interruptions. The artificial neural network is created using a bio-inspired optimization algorithm, such as particle swarm optimization, second generation particle swarm optimization, and new model particle swarm optimization., which directs the evolutionary learning process to determine the most optimal solution. For the best result, the ANN and bio-inspired algorithm (BIANN) are coupled. The suggested BIANN-based controller is made comprised of an internal current and an external power loop. The proper PI gain parameter is tuned using BIANN, allowing …the MGS to be stable. Three PSOs are used to investigate the suggested method, and the Matlab Simulink platform is used to create the fitness functions. The results are examined and contrasted. The new model’s particle swarm optimization provides MGS functioning and stability that is largely accurate and reliable. Show more

Keywords: Engineering optimization, Micro-grid, BIANN, stability assessment, mathematical model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233112

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Kalaichelvi, K. | Sundaram, M. | Sanmugavalli, P.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The research tends to suggest a spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM)-based Binary CNN In-Memory Accelerator (BIMA) to minimize power utilization and suggests an In-Memory Computing (IMC) for AdderNet-based BIMA to further enhance performance by fully utilizing the benefits of IMC as well as a low current consumption configuration employing SOT-MRAM. And recommended an IMC-friendly computation pipeline for AdderNet convolution at the algorithm level. Additionally, the suggested sense amplifier is not only capable of the addition operation but also typical Boolean operations including subtraction etc. The architecture suggested in this research consumes less power than its spin-orbit torque (STT) …MRAM and resistive random access memory (ReRAM)-based counterparts in the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) data set, according to simulation results. Based to evaluation outcomes, the pre-sented strategy outperforms the in-memory accelerator in terms of speedup and energy efficiency by 17.13× and 18.20×, respectively. Show more

Keywords: Energy efficiency, IMC, SOT-MRAM, speedup

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-223898

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Wang, Tianhui | Liu, Renjing | Liu, Jiaohui | Qi, Guohua

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the assessment method based on machine learning, especially the ensemble learning method, has attracted more and more attention in the field of credit assessment. However, most of the ensemble assessment models are complex in structure and costly in time for parameter tuning, few of them break through the limitations of lightweight, universal and efficient. This paper present a new ensemble model for personal credit assessment. First, considering the conflicts and differences among multiple sources of information, a new method is proposed to correct the category prior information by using the difference measure. Then, …the revised prior information is fused with the current sample information with the help of Bayesian data fusion theory. The model can integrate the advantages of multiple benchmark classifiers to reduce the interference of uncertain information. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed model, several typical ensemble classification models are selected and empirically studied using real customer credit data from a commercial bank in China, and the results show that among various assessment criteria: the proposed model not only effectively improves the multi-class classification performance, but also outperforms other advanced multi-class classification credit assessment models in terms of parameter tuning and generalizability. This paper supports commercial banks and other financial institutions examination and approval work. Show more

Keywords: Ensemble model, multi-class credit assessment, information fusion theory

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233141

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Vallabhaneni, Nagalakshmi | Prabhavathy, Panneer

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Numerous people are interested in learning yoga due to the increased tension levels in the modern lifestyle, and there are a variety of techniques or resources available. Yoga is practiced in yoga centers, by personal instructors, and through books, the Internet, recorded videos, etc. As the aforementioned resources may not always be available, a large number of people will opt for self-study in fast-paced lifestyles. Self-learning makes it impossible to recognize an incorrect posture. Incorrect poses will have a negative effect on the patient’s health, causing severe agony and long-term chronic issues. Computer vision (CV)-related techniques derive pose features and …conduct pose analysis using non-invasive CV methods. The application of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to an inter-disciplinary field like yoga becomes quite difficult. Due to its potent feature learning ability, deep learning (DL) has recently achieved an impressive level of performance in classifying yoga poses. In this paper, an artificial algae optimizer with hybrid deep learning-based yoga pose estimation (AAOHDL-YPE) model is presented. The presented AAOHDL-YPE model analyzes yoga video clips to estimate pose. Utilizing Part Confidence Map and Part Affinity Field with bipartite equivalent and parsing, OpenPose can be employed to determine the joint location. The deep belief network (DBN) model is then used for Yoga recognition. Finally, the AAO algorithm is utilized to enhance the EfficientNet model’s recognition performance. The results of a comprehensive experimentation analysis reveal that the AAOHDL-YPE technique produces superior results in comparison to existing methods. Show more

Keywords: Yoga posture, activity recognition, deep learning, metaheuristics, computer vision

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233583

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Vidya, S. | Jagannathan, Veeraraghavan | Guhan, T. | Kumar, Jogendra

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Rainfall forecasting is essential because heavy and irregular rainfall creates many impacts like destruction of crops and farms. Here, the occurrence of rainfall is highly related to atmospheric parameters. Thus, a better forecasting model is essential for an early warning that can minimize risks and manage the agricultural farms in a better way. In this manuscript, Deep Neural Network (DNN) optimized with Flamingo Search Optimization Algorithm (FSOA) is proposed for Long-term and Short-term Rainfall forecasting. Here, the rainfall data is obtained from the standard dataset as Sudheerachary India Rainfall Analysis (IRA). Moreover, the Morphological filtering and Extended Empirical wavelet transformation …(MFEEWT) approach is utilized for pre-processing process. Also, the deep neural network is utilized for performing rainfall prediction and classification. Additionally, the parameters of the DNN model is optimizing by Flamingo Search Optimization Algorithm. Finally, the proposed MFEEWT-DNN- FSOA approach has effectively predict the rainfall in different locations around India. The proposed model is implemented in Python tool and the performance metrics are calculated. The proposed MFEEWT-DNN- FSOA approach has achieved 25%, 26%, 25.5% high accuracy and 35.8%, 24.7%, 15.9% lower error rate for forecasting rainfall in Cannur at Kerala than the existing Map-Reduce based Exponential Smoothing Technology for rainfall prediction (MR-EST-RP), modular artificial neural networks with support vector regression for rainfall prediction (MANN-SVR-RP), and biogeography-based extreme learning machine (BBO-ELM) (BBO-ELM-RP) methods respectively. Show more

Keywords: Deep neural network, extended empirical wavelet transformation, flamingo search optimization, morphological filtering, long-term and short-term rainfall

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235798

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-19, 2023

Authors: Cui, Wei | Zhang, Xuerui | Shang, Mingsheng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: An increasing number of fake news combining text, images and other forms of multimedia are spreading rapidly across social platforms, leading to misinformation and negative impacts. Therefore, the automatic identification of multimodal fake news has become an important research hotspot in academia and industry. The key to multimedia fake news detection is to accurately extract features of both text and visual information, as well as to mine the correlation between them. However, most of the existing methods merely fuse the features of different modal information without fully extracting intra- and inter-modal connections and complementary information. In this work, we learn …physical tampered cues for images in the frequency domain to supplement information in the image space domain, and propose a novel multimodal frequency-aware cross-attention network (MFCAN) that fuses the representations of text and image by jointly modelling intra- and inter-modal relationships between text and visual information whin a unified deep framework. In addition, we devise a new cross-modal fusion block based on the cross-attention mechanism that can leverage inter-modal relationships as well as intra-modal relationships to complement and enhance the features matching of text and image for fake news detection. We evaluated our approach on two publicly available datasets and the experimental results show that our proposed model outperforms existing baseline methods. Show more

Keywords: Fake news detection, multimoal, cross attention, frequency domain

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233193

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-23, 2023

Authors: Jasmine, J. Aruna | Genitha, C. Heltin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Predicting the landslide-prone area is critical for various applications, including emergency response, land planning, and disaster mitigation. There needs to be a thorough landslide inventory in current studies and appropriate sampling uncertainty issues. Landslide risk mapping has expanded significantly as machine learning techniques have developed. However, one of the primary issues in Landslide Prediction is data imbalance (DI). This is problematic since it is challenging or expensive to generate an accurate inventory map of landslides based on previous data. This study proposes a novel landslide prediction method using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) for generating the synthetic data, Synthetic Minority Oversampling …Technique (SMOTE) for overcoming the data imbalance problem, and Bee Collecting Pollen Algorithm (BCPA) for feature extraction. Combining 184 landslides and ten criteria, including topographic wetness index (TWI), aspect, distance from the road, total curvature, sediment transport index (STI), height, slope, stream, lithology, and slope length, a geographical database was produced. The data was generated using GAN, a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) technique to populate the dataset. The proposed DCNN-BCPA approach findings were merged with current machine learning methods such as Random Forests (RF), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), k-Nearest Neighbours (k-NN), Decision Trees (DT), Support Vector Machine (SVM), logistic regression (LR). The model’s accuracy, precision, recall, f-score, and RMSE were measured using the following metrics: 92.675%, 96.298%, 90.536%, 96.637%, and 45.623%. This study suggests that harmonizing landslide data may have a substantial impact on the predictive capabilities of machine learning models. Show more

Keywords: Bee collecting pollen algorithm, data balancing, generative adversarial network, landslide susceptibility, synthetic data

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234924

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-21, 2023

Authors: Li, Weidong | Li, Zhenying | Wang, Chisheng | Zhang, Xuehai | Duan, Jinlong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Accurate identification and monitoring of aircraft on the airport surface can assist managers in rational scheduling and reduce the probability of aircraft conflicts, an important application value for constructing a "smart airport." For the airport surface video monitoring, there are small aircraft targets, aircraft obscuring each other, and affected by different weather, the aircraft target clarity is low, and other complex monitoring problems. In this paper, a lightweight model network for video aircraft recognition in airport field video in complex environments is proposed based on SSD network incorporating coordinate attention mechanism. First, the model designs a lightweight feature extraction network …with five feature extraction layers. Each feature extraction layer consists of two modules, Block_A and Block_I. The Block_A module incorporates the coordinate attention mechanism and the channel attention mechanism to improve the detection of obscured aircraft and to enhance the detection of small targets. The Block_I module uses multi-scale feature fusion to extract feature information with rich semantic meaning to enhance the feature extraction capability of the network in complex environments. Then, the designed feature extraction network is applied to the improved SSD detection algorithm, which enhances the recognition accuracy of airport field aircraft in complex environments. It was tested and subjected to ablation experiments under different complex weather conditions. The results show that compared with the Faster R-CNN, SSD, and YOLOv3 models, the detection accuracy of the improved model has been increased by 3.2% , 14.3% , and 10.9% , respectively, and the model parameters have been reduced by 83.9% , 73.1% , and 78.2% respectively. Compared with the YOLOv5 model, the model parameters are reduced by 38.9% when the detection accuracy is close, and the detection speed is increased by 24.4% , reaching 38.2fps, which can well meet the demand for real-time detection of aircraft on airport surfaces. Show more

Keywords: complex environment, airport surface, aircraft recognition, SSD network, coordinate attention

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231423

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Sendhil, R. | Arulmurugan, A. | Jose Moses, G. | Kaviarasan, R. | Ramadoss, P.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Occult peritoneal metastasis often emerges in sick persons having matured gastric cancer (GC) and is inexpertly detected with presently feasible instruments. Due to the existence of peritoneal metastasis that prevents the probability of healing crucial operation, there relies upon a discontented requirement for an initial diagnosis to accurately recognize sick persons having occult peritoneal metastasis. The proffered paradigm of this chapter identifies the initial phases of occult peritoneal metastasis in GC. The initial phase accompanies metabolomics for inspecting biomarkers. If the sick person undergoes the initial signs of occult peritoneal metastasis in GC, early detection is conducted. Yet, the physical …prognosis of this cancer cannot diagnose it, and so, automated detection of the images by dissecting the preoperational Computed Tomography (CT) images by conditional random fields accompanying Pro-DAE (Post-processing Denoising Autoencoders) and the labeling in the images is rid by denoising strainers; later, the ensued images and the segmented images experience the Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN), and the outcome feature graph information experience the enhanced categorizer (Greywold and Cuckoo Search Naïve Bayes categorizer) procedure that is employed for initial diagnosis of cancer. Diagnosis of cancer at the initial phase certainly lessens the matured phases of cancer. Hence, this medical information is gathered and treated for diagnosing the sickness. Show more

Keywords: Gastric Cancer, MIoT, Greywold and Cuckoo Search Naïve Bayes categorizer, Cuckoo-Grey Wolf search Correlative Naïve Bayes categorizer

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233510

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Sánchez-DelaCruz, Eddy | Abdul-Kareem, Sameem | Pozos-Parra, Pilar

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Background: Many neurodegenerative diseases affect human gait. Gait analysis is an example of a non-invasive manner to diagnose these diseases. Nevertheless, gait analysis is difficult to do because patients with different neurodegenerative diseases may have similar human gaits. Machine learning algorithms may improve the correct identification of these pathologies. However, the problem with many classification algorithms is a lack of transparency and interpretability for the final user. Methods: In this study, we implemented the PS -Merge operator for the classification, employing gait biomarkers of a public dataset. Results: The highest classification percentage was 83.77%, which means …an acceptable degree of reliability. Conclusions: Our results show that PS -Merge has the ability to explain how the algorithm chooses an option, i.e., the operator can be seen as a first step to obtaining an eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Show more

Keywords: PS-Merge, Classification, Neurodegenerative diseases, XAI

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235053

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Ren, Jianji | Yang, Donghao | Yuan, Yongliang | Liu, Haiqing | Hao, Bin | Zhang, Longlie

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The utilization of green edge has emerged as a promising paradigm for the development of new energy vehicle (NEV). Nevertheless, the recharging of these vehicles poses a significant challenge in due to limited power resources and enormous transmission demands. A novel architecture based on Wifi-6 communication is proposed, which makes the most of heterogeneous edge nodes to achieve real-time processing and computation of tasks. To address the collaborative power resource optimization problem, the interference between different vehicles is considered, and the task offloading is optimized. In particular, the power contention among recharging clusters is modeled as an exact game and …a task offloading strategy model is proposed jointly with the Deep Q-Network (DQN) algorithm, which is employed by a secondary application. Thereby, the recharging efficiency and task offloading computation are optimized and improved. Results indicate that the total resource consumption is favorably improved with this architecture and algorithm and the Nash equilibrium is also demonstrated. Show more

Keywords: Energy management, vehicle recharging, heterogeneous node gaming, computation offloading, recharging efficiency

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233990

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Priya, S. Baghavathi | Rani, P. Sheela | Chokkalingam, S.P. | Prathik, A. | Mohan, M. | Anitha, G. | Thangavel, M. | Suthir, S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Traditional testimony and electronic endorsements are extremely challenging to uphold and defend, and there is a problem with challenging authentication. The identity of the student is typically not recognized when it comes to requirements for access to a student’s academic credentials that are scattered over numerous sites. This is an issue with cross-domain authentication methods. On the one hand, whenever the volume of cross-domain authentication requests increases dramatically, the response time can become intolerable because of the slow throughput associated with blockchain mechanisms. These systems still do not give enough thought to the cross-domain scenario’s anonymity problem. This research proposes …an effective cross-domain authentication mechanism called XAutn that protects anonymity and integrates seamlessly through the present Certificate Transparency (CT) schemes. XAutn protects privacy and develops a fast response correctness evaluation method that is based on the RSA (Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman) cryptographic accumulator, Zero Knowledge Proof Algorithm, and Proof of Continuous work consensus Algorithm (POCW). We also provide a privacy-aware computation authentication approach to strengthen the integrity of the authentication messages more securely and counteract the discriminatory analysis of malevolent requests. This research is primarily used to validate identities in a blockchain network, which makes it possible to guarantee their authenticity and integrity while also increasing security and privacy. The proposed technique greatly outperformed the current methods in terms of authentication time, period required for storage, space for storage, and overall processing cost. The proposed method exhibits a speed gain of authentication of roughly 9% when compared to traditional blockchain systems. The security investigation and results from experiments demonstrate how the proposed approach is more reliable and trustworthy. Show more

Keywords: Zero Knowledge Proof, RSA accumulator, educational certificates, cross-domain authentication, blockchain

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235140

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-20, 2023

Authors: Ghavidel, Motahare | Yadollahzadeh-Tabari, Meisam | GolsorkhTabariAmiri, Mehdi

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this paper, we proposed classification and clustering algorithms that are proper for analyzing customer-related datasets, which are mostly high-dimensional with too many instances. For the clustering purpose, This paper presents a Cuckoo-Search-based Variable Weighting (CSVW) Clustering algorithm to obtain optimal variable weights of high-dimensional data for each cluster. This paper also proposes a deep Inferarer Classifier for categorizing customers using Bi-Directional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) neural network, which uses a Fuzzy Inferential Classifier on its last layer. The Insurance Company (TIC) and InstaCart datasets are utilized for the experiments and performance evaluation. Simulation results reveal that the proposed clustering …algorithm generates appropriate Silhouette and Elbow criteria scores in a few cycles of execution in comparison to ordinal clustering algorithms. Also, the proposed classification algorithm with fuzzy soft-max classifier hits the better Classification Criteria in comparison. Show more

Keywords: Customer clustering, Cuckoo optimization, variable-sensitive clustering, deep learning

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230675

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Rahim, Muhammad | Amin, Fazli | Tag Eldin, ElSayed M. | Abd El-Wahed Khalifa, Hamiden | Ahmad, Sadique

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The selection of an appropriate third-party logistics (3PL) provider has become an inescapable option for shippers in today’s business landscape, as the outsourcing of logistics activities continues to increase. Choosing the 3PL supplier that best meets their requirements is one of the most difficult difficulties that logistics consumers face. Effective decision-making (DM) is critical in dealing with such scenarios, allowing shippers to make well-informed decisions within a restricted timeframe. The importance of DM arises from the possible financial repercussions of poor decisions, which can result in significant financial losses. In this regard, we introduce p, q-spherical fuzzy set (p, q …-SFS), a novel concept that extends the concept of T-spherical fuzzy sets (T-SFSs). p, q- SFS is a comprehensive representation tool for capturing imprecise information. The main contribution of this article is to define the basic operations and a series of averaging and geometric AOs under p, q -spherical fuzzy (p, q -SF) environment. In addition, we establish several fundamental properties of the proposed aggregation operators (AOs). Based on these AOs, we propose a stepwise algorithm for multi-criteria DM (MCDM) problems. Finally, a real-life case study involving the selection of a 3PL provider is shown to validate the applicability of the proposed approach. Show more

Keywords: T-spherical fuzzy set, aggregation operators, decision-making, p, q-spherical fuzzy set, multi-criteria decision-making

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235297

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-24, 2023

Authors: Peng, Li-Ling | Bi, Xiao-Feng | Fan, Guo-Feng | Wang, Ze-Ping | Hong, Wei-Chiang

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper proposes a new epidemic prediction model that hybridizes several models, such as the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA), random forest (RF), and response surface method (RSM). The modeling process based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) is particularly suitable for dealing with non-stationary and nonlinear data. ARIMA’s timeliness and difference have strong deterministic information extraction ability. RF is robust and stable, with fast speed, and strong generalization ability. Under the adjustability and correspondence of the response surface, the comprehensiveness of the model is well demonstrated. Taking the United States as an example, the proposed ARIMA-RF-RSM model is …used to explore the development mechanism of the early epidemic according to the data of the early epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The proposed model has high prediction accuracy (mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is 1.97% and root mean square error (RSME) is 7.24%). It helps to take effective prevention and control measures in time. In addition, the model has universal applicability to the analysis of disease transmission in relevant areas. Show more

Keywords: COVID-19, random forest (RF), response surface method (RSM), average model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231588

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-20, 2023

Authors: An, Xiaogang | Chen, Mingming

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between fuzzy logic algebra and non associative groupoid. As a groupoid which can satisfy type-2 cyclic associative (T2CA) law, T2CA-groupoid is characterized by generalized symmetry. Fuzzy logic algebra is a major direction in the study of fuzzy logic. Residuated lattices are a class of fuzzy logic algebras with widespread applications. The inflationary pseudo general residuated lattice (IPGRL), a generalization of the residuated lattice, does not need to satisfy the associative law and commutative law. Moreover, the greatest element of IPGRL is no longer the identity element. In this paper, the notion of T2CA-IPGRL (IPGRL in …T2CA-groupoid) is proposed and its properties are investigated in combination with the study of IPGRL and T2CA-groupoid. In addition, the generalized symmetry and regularity of T2CA-groupoid are investigated based on the characteristics of commutative elements. Meanwhile, the decomposition of T2CA-root of band with T2CA-unipotent radical is studied as well. The result shows that every T2CA-root of band is the disjoint union of T2CA-unipotent radicals. Show more

Keywords: Semigroup, cyclic associative groupoid, generalized regular T2CA-groupoid, fuzzy logic, pseudo general residuated lattice

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232966

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Li, Yundong | Yan, Yunlong | Wang, Xiang

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Timely detection of building damage after a disaster can provide support and help in saving lives and reducing losses. The emergence of transfer learning can solve the problem of difficulty in obtaining several labeled samples to train deep models. However, some degree of differences exists among different scenarios, which may affect the transfer performance. Furthermore, in reality, data can be collected from multiple historical scenarios but cannot be directly combined using single-source domain adaptation methods. Therefore, this study proposes a multi-source variational domain adaptation (MVDA) method to complete the task of post-disaster building assessment. The MVDA method consists of two …stages: first, the distributions of each pair of source and target domains in specific feature spaces are aligned separately; second, the outputs of the pre-trained classifiers are aligned using domain-specific decision boundaries. This method maximizes the relevant information in the historical scene, solves the problem of inconsistent image classification in the current scene, and improves the migration efficiency from the history to the current disaster scene. The proposed approach is validated by two challenging multi-source transfer tasks using the post-disaster hurricane datasets. The average accuracy rate of 83.3% for the two tasks is achieved, obtaining an improvement of 0.9% compared with the state-of-the-art methods. Show more

Keywords: Building damage detection, domain adaptation, multi-source domain, transfer learning, remote sensing

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232613

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Prabu, Saranya | Padmanabhan, Jayashree

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a strategy that leads the network via software by separating its control plane from the underlying forwarding plane. In support of a global digital network, multi-domain SDN architecture emerges as a viable solution. However, the complex and ever-evolving nature of network threats in a multi-domain environment presents a significant security challenge for controllers in detecting abnormalities. Moreover, multi-domain anomaly detection poses a daunting problem due to the need to process vast amounts of data from diverse domains. Deep learning models have gained popularity for extracting high-level feature representations from massive datasets. In this work, a novel …deep neural network architecture, supervised learning based LD-BiHGA (Low Dimensional Bi-channel Hybrid GAN Attention) system is designed to learn class-specific features for accurate anomaly detection. Two asymmetric GANs are employed for learning the normal and abnormal network flows separately. Then, to extract more relevant features, a bi-channel attention mechanism is added. This is the first study to introduce an innovative hybrid architecture that merges bi-channel hybrid GANs with attention models for the purpose of anomaly detection in a multi-domain SDN environment that effectively handles real-time unbalanced data. The suggested architecture demonstrates its effectiveness on three benchmark datasets, achieving an average accuracy improvement of 7.225% on balanced datasets and 3.335% on imbalanced datasets compared to previous intrusion detection system (IDS) architectures in the literature. Show more

Keywords: Hybrid GAN, intrusion detection, deep learning, attention model, dimensionality reduction, denoising autoencoder

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233668

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-22, 2023

Authors: Yuan, Hao | Yang, Hao | Li, Ruiqi | Wang, Jun | Tian, Lin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: For the purpose of real-time monitoring the hazard information on the electric power construction site, a personal safety monitoring system based on Artificial intelligence internet of things (AIoT) technology is designed. After the system sensing layer collects the gas information of the construction site through the gas sensor, limit current oxygen sensor and DS1820B temperature sensor, the edge computing device of the edge layer directly stores its calculation in the database of the platform layer through the data gateway. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) analysis module of this layer invokes the monitoring data of the power construction site of the database, …and uses the personal safety identification method of the power construction site based on artificial intelligence technology, to complete the abnormal identification of monitoring data and realize personal safety monitoring. In addition, the system is also equipped with a power-fail detection module, which can collect the working voltage through the voltage transformer and compare it with the mains power standard to judge whether there is a power-fail risk, so as to prevent the problem of threatening personal safety due to the power-fail of the energized equipment. After testing, the system can monitor the operation status of the construction site in real time to protect personal safety. Show more

Keywords: AIoT technology, power construction, operation site, personal safety, monitoring system

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235087

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Praveen Kumar, B. | Padmavathy, T. | Muthunagai, S.U. | Paulraj, D.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Data mining is one of the emerging technologies used in many applications such as Market analysis and Machine learning. Temporal data mining is used to get a clear knowledge about current trend and to predict the upcoming future. The rudimentary challenge in introducing a data mining procedure is, processing time and memory consumption are highly increasing while trying to improve the accuracy, precision or recall. As well as, while trying to reduce the processing time or memory consumption, accuracy, precision and recall values are reducing significantly. So, for improving the performance of the system and to preserve the memory and …processing time, Three-Dimensional Fuzzy FP-Tree (TDFFPT) is proposed for Temporal data mining. Three functional modules namely, Three-Dimensional Temporal data FP-Tree (TTDFPT), Fuzzy Logic based Temporal Data Tree Analyzer (FTDTA) and Temporal Data Frequent Itemset Miner (TDFIM) are integrated in the proposed method. This algorithm scans the database and generates frequent patterns as per the business need. Every time a client purchases a new item, it gets stored in the recent database layer instead of rescanning the entire records which are placed in the old layer. The results obtained shows that the performance of the proposed model is more efficient than that of the existing algorithm in terms of overall accuracy, processing time, reduction in the memory utilization, and the number of databases scans. In addition, the proposed model also provides improved decision making and accurate pattern prediction in the time series data. Show more

Keywords: Data mining, FP-Tree, fuzzy logic, market analysis, temporal data mining, prediction accuracy, precision, processing time, recall

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-223030

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Mahalakshmi, G. | Uma, E.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Intelligent Transportation Systems have become integral to daily life, with VANETs (vehicular ad-hoc networks) playing the pivotal role. VANETs, the subsets of MANETs, employ vehicles as nodes to establish intelligent transport systems. However, due to critical applications such as military use, these networks are susceptible to attacks. With features like high mobility, dynamic network topology, and coverage issues, security breaches are a concern. This necessitates a secure routing algorithm to mitigate attacks and ensure message delivery. In our study, we utilize the UNSW-NB15 intrusion detection dataset to develop training and testing models. Our proposed novel intrusion detection system employs a …feature selection algorithm that prioritizes significant arriving traffic attributes. This algorithm enhances abnormal activity detection while minimizing associated features. To achieve this, we modify the Conditional Random Field algorithm with fuzzy-based rules, resulting in a more efficient selection of influential and contributing features for detecting attacks such as DoS, Worms, Fuzzers, and Shellcode. Through appropriate feature selection using the modified Conditional Random Field and Support Vector Machine classification system in our experiments, we demonstrate a notable increase in security by reducing the false positive rate. Additionally, our approach excels in detecting accuracy of Fuzzers (98.86%), DoS (98.80%), Worms (34.45%), and Shellcode (89.308%), ultimately enhancing network performance. These findings underscore the effectiveness of our proposed method in enhancing intrusion detection and overall network efficiency. Show more

Keywords: Vehicular ad-hoc networks, intrusion detection, feature selection, classification

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234192

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Poongavanam, N. | Nithiyanandam, N. | Suma, T. | Thatha, Venkata Nagaraju | Shaik, Riaz

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this research, –coverage –connected problem is viewed as multi-objective problem and shuffling frog leaps algorithm is proposed to address multi-objective optimization issues. The shuffled frog leaping set of rules is a metaheuristic algorithm that mimics the behavior of frogs. Shuffled frog leaping algorithms are widely used to seek global optimal solutions by executing the guided heuristic on the given solution space. The basis for the success of this SFL algorithm is the ability to exchange information among a group of individuals which phenomenally explores the search space. SFL improves the overall lifespan of the network, the cost of connection …among the sensors, to enhance the equality of coverage among the sensors and targets, reduced sensor count for increased coverage, etc. When it comes to coverage connectivity issues, each target has to be covered using k sensors to avoid the loss of data and m sensors connected enhance the lifespan of the network. When the targets are covered by k sensors then the loss of data will be reduced to an extended manner. When the sensors are connected with m other sensors then the connectivity among the sensors will not go missing and hence the lifespan of the network will be improved significantly. Therefore, the sensor node number in coverage indicates the total number of sensor nodes utilised to cover a target, and the number of sensor nodes in connected reflects the total number of sensor nodes that provide redundancy for a single failed sensor node. Connectivity between sensor nodes is crucial to the network’s longevity. The entire network backbone acts strategically when all the sensors are connected with one or the other to pertain to the connectivity of the network. Coverage is yet another key issue regarding the loss of data. The proposed algorithm solves the connectivity of sensors and coverage of targets problems without weighted sum approach. The proposed algorithm is evaluated and tested under different scenarios to show the significance of the proposed algorithm. Show more

Keywords: Optimization, wireless sensor networks, throughput, latency, packet delivery, target

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233595

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Lakshmi Narayanan, K. | Naresh, R.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) Technology is advancing due to the convergence of VANET and cloud computing technologies, Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) entities can benefit from the cloud service provider’s favourable storage and computing capabilities. Cloud computing, the processing and storage capabilities provided by various cloud service providers, would be available to all VANET enterprises. Digital Twin helps in creating a digital view of the Vehicle. It focuses on the physical behaviour of the Vehicle as well as the software it alerts when it finds issues with the performance. The representation of the Vehicle is created using intelligent sensors, which are …in OBU of VANET that help collect info from the product. The author introduces the Cloud-based three-layer key management for VANET in this study. Because VANET connections can abruptly change, critical negotiation verification must be completed quickly and with minimal bandwidth. When the Vehicles are in movement, we confront the difficulty in timely methods, network stability, and routing concerns like reliability and scalability. We must additionally address issues such as fair network access, inappropriate behaviour identification, cancellation, the authentication process, confidentiality, and vehicle trustworthiness verification. The proposed All-Wheel Control (AWC) method in this study may improve the safety and efficiency of VANETs. This technology would also benefit future intelligent transportation systems. The Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm and Chinese Remainder Theorem algorithms generate keys at the group, subgroup, and node levels. The proposed method produces better results than the previous methods. Show more

Keywords: Cloud computing, VANET, RSA, CRT, AWC

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233527

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Paul, Ann Rija | Grace Mary Kanaga, E.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this new era of intelligence and automation, it is important to develop intelligent software to analyse traffic data and detect abnormal activities occurring in the public. Information from GPS, Surveillance cameras, traffic management systems etc will be helpful for the researchers to develop such algorithms. In this research work, we propose a method to detect traffic accidents and used a deep convolutional neural network (D-CNN) and Centroid based vehicle tracking algorithm for vehicle detection. Overlapping bounding boxes and speed of the vehicle are considered for collision detection. The vehicle is tracked using a centroid tracking algorithm to find acceleration, …speed and trajectory values of each vehicle in the continuous frames. The trajectory and angle change after the collision can be used to classify the accidents. The result shows a detection accuracy of 99% in such a way outperforms the other latest methods. The results from the proposed method can be used in several accident reconstruction softwares like PC crash, ARPro etc. Show more

Keywords: Vehicle tracking, surveillance, collision detection, trajectory and angle of intersection, deep convolutional neural network

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235911

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Xu, Yi | Zhou, Meng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: As an important extension of classical rough sets, local rough set model can effectively process data with noise. How to effectively calculate three approximation regions, namely positive region, negative region and boundary region, is a crucial issue of local rough sets. Existing calculation methods for approximation regions are based on conditional probability, the time complexity is O  (|X ||U ||C |). In order to improve the computational efficiency of three approximation regions of local rough sets, we propose a double-local conditional probability based fast calculation method. First, to improve the computational efficiency of equivalence class, we define the double-local equivalence …class. Second, based on the double-local equivalence class, we define the double-local conditional probability. Finally, given the probability thresholds and a local equivalence class, the monotonicity of double-local conditional probability is proved, on this basis, a double-local conditional probability based fast calculation method for approximation regions of local rough sets is proposed, and the time complexity is O  (MAX  (|X |2 |C |, |X ||X C ||C |)). Experimental results based on 9 datasets from UCI demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Show more

Keywords: Local rough sets, approximation regions, double-local equivalence class, double-local conditional probability

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232767

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Saranya, K. | Paulraj, M. | Hema, C.R. | Nithya, S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Exploring and finding Significant features for colour visualization tasks using the EEG signals is crucial in developing a robust Brain-machine Interface (BMI). The visually evoked potential carries multiple pieces of information, and finding its best feature is a tedious task. The main objective of this research is to concentrate on various linear and non-linear features which classifies the visually evoked potential when visualizing various colours for a certain period with reduced computational time and with higher accuracy. The feature extraction techniques utilized for extracting the features of EEG signals while visualizing various colours are Power Spectral Intensity (PSI), Spectral Entropy …(SE), Detrended Fluctuation analysis (DFA), Higuchi Fractal Dimension (HFD), Petrossian Fractal Dimension (PFD), Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA). The extracted features were classified using the Multiclass classifier using one vs rest technique Support Vector Machine algorithm. The result shows that the MFDFA method with multiclass classifier combination has achieved 97.4 percent of classification accuracy when compared with other features. Show more

Keywords: Electroencephalogram (EEG), Brain Machine Interface (BMI), Detrended Fluctuation analysis (DFA), Higuchi Fractal Dimension (HFD), Petrossian Fractal Dimension (PFD), Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA)

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235469

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-10, 2023

Authors: Cao, Peng | Xiao, Jing

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The Belt and Road (B&R) plan is put out within the framework of global economics and strategic growth. This study examines the written material of popular tourist sites along B&R and the tourism assets from the viewpoint of B&R, based on the wireless network and AI technology, and using a big data platform and the Internet of Things (IoT) User Generated Content (UGC) network structure. To manage tourist pictures from customers’ views, online travel notes are first utilized as examples. Next, tourism texts’ keywords are extracted using Python big data and AI technology to understand consumers’ perceptions of scenic spot …preferences, tourism facilities and services, and social and cultural customs. The findings demonstrate that, when compared to the conventional tourism brand development strategy, the integrated development strategy based on the AI big data platform can not only increase the effectiveness of managing tourists’ perceptions of scenic locations but can also encourage the common development of national sports event components and intelligent tourism image management. Several sports tourist boutique picturesque locations have also been built along B&R following years of development of intelligent tourism and sports projects, which will strengthen the effect of multicultural exchanges. Show more

Keywords: The Belt and Road, traditionalsports, tourism brand, big data, artificial intelligence

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230547

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Yapali, Reha | Korkmaz, Erdal | Çinar, Muhammed | Çoskun, Hüsamettin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The idea of lacunary statistical convergence sequences, which is a development of statistical convergence, is examined and expanded in this study on L - fuzzy normed spaces, which is a generalization of fuzzy spaces. On L - fuzzy normed spaces, the definitions of lacunary statistical Cauchy and completeness, as well as associated theorems, are provided. The link between lacunary statistical Cauchyness and lacunary statistical boundedness with regard to L - fuzzy norm is also shown.

Keywords: ℒ-fuzzy normed space, lacunary double sequences, lacunary statistically convergence, lacunary statistical Cauchy, lacunary statistical boundedness

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-222695

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-9, 2023

Authors: Dong, Yumin | Che, Xuanxuan | Fu, Yanying | Liu, Hengrui | Sun, Lina

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Previously, single classification models were mainly studied to classify human protein cell images, i.e., to identify a certain protein based on a set of different cells. However, a classifier can identify only one protein, in fact, a single cell usually consists of multiple proteins, and the proteins are not completely independent of each other. In this paper, we build a human protein cell classification model by multi-label learning. The logical relationship and distribution characteristics among the labels are analyzed to determine the different proteins contained in a set of different cells (i.e., containing multiple elements in the output space). In …this paper, using human protein image data, we conducted comparison experiments on pre-trained Xception and InceptionResnet V2 to optimize the two models in terms of data augmentation, channel settings, and model structure. The results show that the Optimized InceptionResnet V2 model achieves high performance in the classification task. The final accuracy of the Optimized InceptionResnet V2 model we obtained reached 96.1%, which is a 2.82% improvement relative to that before the optimized model. Show more

Keywords: Human protein atlas images data set, image classification, multi-label learning, deep convolutional neural network

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-223464

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Li, Jie

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In response to the evolving landscape of the modern era, the requirements for engineering audit have undergone significant changes. To achieve efficient audit tasks and obtain accurate and reliable results, the integration of machine learning and wireless network technology has become essential, leading to the emergence of digital and information-based audit modes. This paper focuses on the development of a digital audit system that combines engineering audit management fusion with machine learning and wireless network technology. Such an approach reflects the dynamic shift in internal audit functions and objectives, providing clear guidelines for the future of digital audit management. By …harnessing the power of machine learning and wireless networks, the digital audit system effectively addresses challenges associated with data management, sharing, exchange, and security during the audit process. Through seamless integration, it enables comprehensive electronic and digital management of internal and audit business processes. This research explores the platform’s functionalities and its potential application, using actual audit data for analysis. The proposed digital audit system showcases superior real-time data querying performance, heightened accuracy in checks, and enhanced retrieval capabilities. The simulation results validate the system’s efficacy, highlighting its ability to deliver true and dependable audit outcomes. By embracing digital transformation, the engineering audit field can harness the potential of cutting-edge technologies, thus paving the way for a more efficient, reliable, and future-ready approach to audit management. Show more

Keywords: Machine learning, wireless network technology, digital engineering audit, audit management strategy

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230759

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Rajalakshmi, S. | Sellam, V. | Kannan, N. | Saranya, S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Forest fires are a global natural calamity causing significant economic damage and loss of lives. Professionals forecast that forest fires would raise in the future because of climate change. Early prediction and identification of fire spread would enhance firefighting and reduce affected zones. Several systems have been advanced to detect fire. Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be used for forest fire detection due to their ability, high flexibility, and inexpensive to cover vast areas. But still, they are limited by difficulties like image degradation, small fire size, and background complexity. This study develops an automated Forest Fire Detection using …Metaheuristics with Deep Learning (FFDMDL-DI) model. The presented FFDMDL-DI technique exploits the DL concepts on drone images to identify the occurrence of fire. To accomplish this, the FFDMDL-DI technique makes use of the Capsule Network (CapNet) model for feature extraction purposes with a biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm-based hyperparameter optimizer. For accurate forest fire detection, the FFDMDL-DI technique uses a unified deep neural network (DNN) model. Finally, the tree growth optimization (TGO) technique is utilized for the parameter adjustment of the DNN method. To depict the enhanced detection efficiency of the FFDMDL-DI approach, a series of simulations were performed on the FLAME dataset, comprising 6000 samples. The experimental results stated the improvements in the FFDMDL-DI method over other DL models with maximum accuracy of 99.76%. Show more

Keywords: Forest fire, deep learning, drone images, transfer learning, metaheuristics, computer vision

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232080

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Qin, Xiwen | Ji, Xing | Zhang, Siqi | Xu, Dingxin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The emergence of credit has generated a wealth of data on consumer lending behavior. In recent years, financial institutions have also started to use such data to make informed lending decisions based on fine-grained customer data, but conventional risk assessment models are inadequate in meeting the risk control requirements of the financial industry. Therefore, this paper proposes a credit scoring ensemble model incorporating fuzzy clustering particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to obtain better credit risk prediction capability. First, a weighted outlier detection method based on the Induced Ordered Weighted Average Operator is proposed to preprocess the data to reduce noisy …data’s misleading effect on model training. Then, an undersampling method combined with fuzzy clustering PSO is proposed to overcome the negative effect of category imbalance on model training by resampling the data. In addition, a hyperparameter optimization framework is introduced to adaptively adjust important parameters in the ensemble model considering the impact of parameter settings on the training performance of the model. Based on the evaluation metrics of F-score, AUC, and Kappa coefficient, an empirical analysis was conducted on five credit risk datasets. The results show that the proposed method outperforms the comparative model with an improvement of 10% to 50% in terms of F-score and AUC. The highest achieved F-score is 0.9488, and the maximum AUC is 0.9807, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method. The kappa coefficient results indicate a high level of consistency in the predicted classification results of the model. Show more

Keywords: Credit scoring, improved PSO, Fuzzy C-means, undersampling, ensemble model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233334

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Shi, Dingpu | Zhou, Jincheng | Wu, Feng | Wang, Dan | Yang, Duo | Pan, Qingna

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: How to better grasp students’ learning preferences in the environment of rapid development of engineering and science and technology so as to guide them to high-quality learning is one of the important research topics in the field of educational technology research today. In order to achieve this goal, this paper utilizes the LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) model for text mining of the survey results on the basis of a survey on students’ self-perception evaluation. The results show that the LDA model is capable of extracting terms from text, fuzzy identifying groups of students at different levels and presenting potential logical …relationships between the groups, and further analyzing the learning preferences of students at different levels for IT courses. Based on the student’s learning needs, this paper proposes recommendations for developing students’ learning effectiveness. The LDA method proposed in this paper is a feasible and effective method for assessing students’ learning dynamics as it generates cognitive content about students’ learning and allows for the timely discovery of students’ learning expectations and cutting-edge dynamics. Show more

Keywords: Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, educational data mining, self-perceptions, network modeling

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232971

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Zhang, Yehua | Zhang, Yan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With the advancement of modern medical concepts, the beneficial effects of music on human health have gradually become accepted, and the corresponding music therapy has gradually become a new research direction that has received much attention in recent years. However, folk music has certain peculiarities that lead to the fact that there is no efficient way of selecting repertoire that can be carried out directly throughout the repertoire selection. This paper combines deep learning theory with ethnomusic therapy based on previous research and proposes a deep learning-based approach to ethnomusic therapy song selection. Since the feature extraction process in the …traditional sense has insufficient information on each frame, excessive redundancy, inability to process multiple frames of continuous music signals containing relevant music features and weak noise immunity, it increases the computational effort and reduces the efficiency of the system. To address the above shortcomings, this paper introduces deep learning methods into the feature extraction process, combining the feature extraction process of the Deep Auto-encoder (DAE) with the music classification process of Gaussian mixture model, which forms a new DAE-GMM music classification model. Finally, in terms of music therapy selection, this paper compares the music selection method based on co-matrix and physiological signal with the one in this paper. From the theoretical and simulation plots, it can be seen that the method proposed in this paper can achieve both good music classifications from a large number of music and further optimize the process of music therapy song selection from both subjective and objective aspects by considering the therapeutic effect of music on patients. Through this article research results found that the depth of optimization feature vector to construct double the accuracy of the classifier is higher, in addition, compared with the characteristics of the original optimization classification model, using the gaussian mixture model can more accurately classify music, the original landscape “hometown” score of 0.9487, is preferred, insomnia patients mainly ceramic flute style soft tone, without excitant, low depression, have composed of nourishing the heart function. Show more

Keywords: Ethnic music, music therapy, repertoire selection, deep learning

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230893

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-10, 2023

Authors: Sureka, V. | Kavya, G.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Automobiles have undergone a transformation during the past two decades due to the merger of the electronics and automotive industries. The combination of autos and electronic sensors has resulted in a new generation of vehicles known as autonomous vehicles (AVs). These AVs have a few hundred thousand sensors, producing an enormous amount of raw data for computation. Data from the vehicular network can be offloaded to existing telecommunication infrastructure to address the problem of processing resources. In order to address vehicular network requirements, large-capacity servers deployed in major telecommunications networks are first used to offload resource-intensive tasks. Mobile Cloud Computing …(MCC) is a critical enabling technology for 5 G networks, which has a key feature of offloading to divide application tasks into local and cloud server execution components. This paper proposes a novel Three TierEdge cloud computing (T2 EC2 ) system which uses an Energy-aware Dynamic Task offloading and collaborative task execution algorithm (EA-DTOCTE) for multilayer vehicular cloud computing networks. The EA-DTOCTE algorithm is included in the decision-making engine in the proposed system, which selects whether to offload the task to the remote environment or implement it locally. EA-DTOCTE focuses on consumption of energy by tasks both locally and remotely since its goal is to efficiently and dynamically split the application into tasks and schedule them on local devices and cloud resources. The proposed T2 EC2 has been evaluated in terms of parameters such as energy consumption, completion time, and throughput. Experimental results indicate that the proposed T2 EC2 can save up to 28% of system energy consumption compared with other state-of-art techniques. Show more

Keywords: Autonomous vehicles, mobile cloud computing, application partitioning, offloading, scheduling, EA-DTOCTE, decision making engine, collaborative task execution

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-220970

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Wu, Yixun | Wang, Taiyu | Gu, Runze | Liu, Chao | Xu, Boqiang

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In order to address the problem of decreased accuracy in vehicle object detection models when facing low-light conditions in nighttime environments, this paper proposes a method to enhance the accuracy and precision of object detection by using the image translation technology based on the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in the field of computer vision, specifically the CycleGAN, from the perspective of improving the training set of object detection models. This is achieved by transforming the existing well-established daytime vehicle dataset into a nighttime vehicle dataset. The proposed method adopts a comparative experimental approach to obtain translation models with different degrees …of fitting by changing the training set capacity, and selects the optimal model based on the evaluation of the effect. The translated dataset is then used to train the YOLO-v5-based object detection model, and the quality of the nighttime dataset is evaluated through the evaluation of annotation confidence and effectiveness. The research results indicate that utilizing the translated nighttime vehicle dataset for training the object detection model can increase the area under the PR curve and the peak F1 score by 10.4% and 9% respectively. This approach improves the annotation accuracy and precision of vehicle object detection models in nighttime environments without requiring additional labeling of vehicles in monitoring videos. Show more

Keywords: Vehicle object detection, CycleGAN, nighttime vehicle image dataset, deep learning, machine vision

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233899

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Hu, Jianbin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This study intends to solve the problems brought on by regional differences in the distribution of educational resources, inadequate growth of schools, and various levels of informationization in university education. Because of the complicated functional framework that is now in place, university life is unsafe for both teachers and students. The issue is further complicated by challenges with maintaining several cards for one person, a lack of seamless software and educational platform integration, and multiple obstacles between data and users. Information inequality is exacerbated by inadequate learning resources, and development is hampered by the lack of efficient teacher-student feedback mechanisms. …It can also be difficult to accurately manage a huge group of people. This study uses the web and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to create comprehensive, succinct, effective, and high-performing college instruction information technology in order to address these difficulties. Irrespective of the time or day, the system seeks to serve teachers and students while managing a sizable influx of visitors. Throughout the development process, the system is actively optimized and improved by the research. The experiment’s findings illustrate a robust interface function via practical assessment. Usability assessments show that the feedback is better than the previous system, with response times being reduced. Additionally, the updated system shows a typical reduction in overall electrical usage. Show more

Keywords: Informationization, education, network, teacher-student feedback

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235050

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Wang, Jiaguo | Li, Wenheng | Lei, Chao | Yang, Meng | Pei, Yang

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Recently, actor-critic architectures such as deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) are able to understand higher-level concepts for searching rich reward, and generate complex actions in continuous action space, and widely used in practical applications. However, when action space is limited and has dynamic hard margins, training DDPG can be problematic and inefficiency. Since real-world actuators always have margins and interferences, after initialization, the actor network is likely to be stuck at a local optimal point on action space margin: actor gradient orients to the outside of action space but actuators stop at the margin. If the hard margins are complex, …dynamic and unknown to the DDPG agent, it is unable to use penalty functions to recover from local optimum. If we enlarge the random process for local exploration, the training could be in potential risk of failure. Therefore, simply relying on gradient of critic network to train the actor network is not a robust method in real environment. To solve this problem, in this paper we modify DDPG to deep comparative policy (DCP). Rather than leveraging critic-to-actor gradient, the core training process of DCP is regulated by a T-fold compare among random proposed adjacent actions. The performance of DDPG, DCP and related algorithms are tested and compared in two experiments. Our results show that, DCP is effective, efficient and qualified to perform all tasks that DDPG can perform. More importantly, DCP is less likely to be influenced by the action space margins, DCP can provide more safety in avoiding training failure and local optimum, and gain more robustness in applications with dynamic hard margins in the action space. Another advantage is that, complex penalty for margin touching detection is not required, the reward function can always be brief and short. Show more

Keywords: Actor-critic, deep reinforcement learning, intelligent agent, iterative learning

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233747

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Yue, Qi | Deng, Zhibin | Hu, Bin | Tao, Yuan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The two-sided matching (TSM) decision-making is an interdisciplinary research field encompassing management science, behavioral science, and computer science, which are widely applied in various industries and everyday life, generating significant economic and social value. However, in the decision-making process of real-world TSM, the complexity of the decision-making problem and environment lead to the preference information provided by the two-sided agents being ambiguous and uncertain. The purpose of this study is to develop a new fair and stable matching methodology to resolve the TSM problem with multiple hesitant fuzzy element (HFE) information. The decision-making process is as follows. First, the TSM …problem with four kinds of HFEs is described. To solve this problem, the HFE value of each index is normalized and then is transformed into the closeness degree by using the bidirectional projection technology. Second, based on the closeness degree, the weight of each index is calculated by using the Critic method. Then, the agent satisfaction is obtained by aggregating the closeness and the weights. Next, a fair and stable TSM model to maximizing agent satisfactions under the constraints of one-to-one stable matching is constructed. The best TSM scheme can be obtained by solving the TSM model. Finally, an example of logistics technology cooperation is provided to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the presented model and methodology. The proposed methodology develops a novel fuzzy information presentation tool and constructs a TSM model considering the fairness and stability, which is of great significance to investigate the TSM decision-making and the resolution of real-life TSM problems under the uncertain and fuzzy environments. One future research direction is to consider multiple psychological and behavioral factors of two-sided agents in TSM problems. Show more

Keywords: Two-sided matching, fairness and stability, hesitant fuzzy element (HFE), bidirectional projection technology, critic, multiobjective programming model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232520

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-25, 2023

Authors: He, Yu | Pan, Yigong | Hu, Xinying | Sun, Guangzhong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract:  Concept prerequisite relation refers to the learning order of concepts, which is useful in education. Concept prerequisite learning refers to using machine learning methods to infer prerequisite relation of a concept pair. The process of concept prerequisite learning requires large amounts of labeled data to train classifier. Usually, the labels of prerequisite relation are assigned by specialists. The specialist labelling method is costly. Thus, it is necessary to reduce labeling expense. An effective strategy is using active learning methods. In this paper, we propose a pool-based active learning framework for concept prerequisite learning named PACOL. It is a …fact that concept u and concept v cannot be prerequisite of each other simultaneously. The idea of PACOL is to select the concept pair with the greatest deviation between the classifier’s prediction and the fact. Besides, PACOL can be used in two situations: when specialists assign three kinds of labels or two kinds of labels. In experiments, we constructed data sets for three subjects. Experimental results on both our constructed data sets and public data sets demonstrate that PACOL outperforms than existing active learning methods in all situations. Show more

Keywords: Educational data mining, prerequisite relation, active learning, Wikipedia

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231878

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-17, 2023

Authors: Yu, Ming | Liu, Jiali | Liu, Yi | Yan, Gang

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Most existing RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) methods extract features of both modalities in parallel or adopt depth features as supplementary information for unidirectional interaction from depth modality to RGB modality in the encoder stage. These methods ignore the influence of low-quality depth maps, and there is still room for improvement in effectively fusing RGB features and depth features. To address the above problems, this paper proposes a Feature Interaction Network (FINet), which performs bi-directional interaction through feature interaction module (FIM) in the encoder stage. The feature interaction module is divided into two parts: depth enhancement module (DEM) filters the …noise in the depth features through the attention mechanism; and cross enhancement module (CEM) effectively interacts RGB features and depth features. In addition, this paper proposes a two-stage cross-modal fusion strategy: high-level fusion adopts the semantic information of high level for coarse localization of salient regions, and low-level fusion makes full use of the detailed information of low level through boundary fusion, and then we progressively refine high-level and low-level cross-modal features to obtain the final saliency prediction map. Extensive experiments show that the proposed model achieves better performance than eight state-of-the-art models on five standard datasets. Show more

Keywords: RGB-D salient object detection, feature interaction, depth enhancement module, cross enhancement module, cross-modal fusion

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233225

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Zhao, Liang | Wang, Jiawei | Liu, Shipeng | Yang, Xiaoyan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Tunnels water leakage detection in complex environments is difficult to detect the edge information due to the structural similarity between the region of water seepage and wet stains. In order to address the issue, this study proposes a model comprising a multilevel transformer encoder and an adaptive multitask decoder. The multilevel transformer encoder is a layered transformer to extract the multilevel characteristics of water leakage information, and the adaptive multitask decoder comprises the adaptive network branches. The adaptive network branches generate the ground truths of wet stains and water seepage through the threshold value and transmit them to the network …for training. The converged network, the U-net, fuses coarse images from the adaptive multitask decoder, and the fusion images are the final segmentation results of water leakage in tunnels. The experimental results indicate that the proposed model achieves 95.1% Dice and 90.4% MIOU, respectively. This proposed model demonstrates a superior level of precision and generalization when compared to other related models. Show more

Keywords: Water leakage, multilevel transformer encoder, adaptive multitask decoder, adaptive network branches, converged network

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-224315

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Mohananthini, N. | Rajeshkumar, K. | Ananth, C.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Heart disease (HD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, emphasizing the need for accurate and efficient detection and classification methods. Recently, Blockchain (BC) provides seamless and secure sharing of heart disease data amongst healthcare providers, specialists, and researchers. This allows collaborative efforts, data exchange, and integration of diverse datasets, leading to a more comprehensive analysis and accurate detection of heart diseases. BC provides a decentralized and tamper-proof platform for storing sensitive patient data related to heart disease. This ensures the integrity and security of the data, reducing the risk of unauthorized access or data manipulation. Therefore, this study presents …a new blockchain-assisted heart disease detection and classification model with feature selection with optimal fuzzy logic (BHDDC-FSOFL) technique. The presented BHDDC-FSOFL technique uses BC technology to store healthcare data securely. In addition, the disease detection module encompasses the design of biogeography teaching and learning-based optimization (BTLBO) algorithm for feature selection (FS) procedure. Moreover, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) classifier can be exploited for HD detection and classification. Furthermore, the ebola search optimization (ESO) algorithm is used for the parameter tuning of the ANFIS classifier. The integration of ANFIS classifier enables the modeling of uncertainty and imprecision in HD data, while metaheuristic algorithms aid in optimizing the classification process. Additionally, the utilization of BC technology ensures secure and transparent storage and sharing of healthcare data. To demonstrate the enhanced HD classification results of the BHDDC-FSOFL technique, a detailed experimental analysis was made on the HD dataset. The extensive result analysis pointed out the improved performance of the BHDDC-FSOFL technique compared to recent approaches in terms of different measures. Therefore, the proposed model offers a reliable and privacy-enhancing solution for healthcare providers and patients in a BC-assisted healthcare environment. Show more

Keywords: Heart disease detection, healthcare, blockchain, security, fuzzy logic, feature selection

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232902

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Choe, Kwang-Il | Huang, Xiaoxia | Ma, Di

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: To achieve the carbon neutrality goal, enterprises should consider not only the development of new low-carbon emission projects but also the adjustment of the existing high-carbon emission projects. This paper discusses a multi-period project adjustment and selection (MPPAS) problem under the carbon tax and carbon quota policies. First, we propose an uncertain mean-chance MPPAS model for maximizing the profit of the project portfolio under the carbon tax and carbon quota policies. Then, we provide the deterministic equivalent of the proposed model and conduct the theoretical analysis of the impact of carbon tax and carbon quota policies. Next, we propose an …improved adaptive genetic algorithm to solve the proposed model. Finally, we give numerical experiments to verify the proposed algorithm’s performance and show the proposed model’s applicability. Research has shown that the government can achieve the carbon neutrality goal by determining reasonable carbon tax and carbon quota policies, and companies can make the optimal investment decisions for the project portfolio by the proposed model. In addition, the proposed algorithm has good performances in robustness, convergence speed, and global convergence. Show more

Keywords: Project portfolio, uncertainty theory, carbon emission reduction, adaptive genetic algorithm

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231970

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-19, 2023

Authors: Rani, R.M. | Dwarakanath, B. | Kathiravan, M. | Murugesan, S. | Bharathiraja, N. | Vinoth Kumar, M.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Liver cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and poses a significant challenge to physicians in terms of accurate diagnosis and treatment. AI-powered segmentation and classification algorithms can play a vital role in assisting physicians in detecting and diagnosing liver tumors. However, liver tumor classification is a difficult task due to factors such as noise, non-homogeneity, and significant appearance variations in cancerous tissue. In this study, we propose a novel approach to automatically segmenting and classifying liver tumors. Our proposed framework comprises three main components: a preprocessing unit to enhance picture contrast, a Masked Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) …for liver segmentation, and a pixel-wise classification unit for identifying abnormalities in the liver. When our models are applied to the challenging MICCAI’2027 liver tumor segmentation (LITS) database, we achieve Dice similarity coefficients of 96% and 98% for liver segmentation and lesion identification, respectively. We also demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed framework by comparing it with similar strategies for tumor segmentations. The proposed approach achieved high accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and F1 score parameters for liver segmentation and lesion identification. These results were evaluated using the Dice similarity coefficient and compared with similar strategies for tumor segmentation. Our approach holds promise for improving the accuracy and speed of liver tumor detection and diagnosis, which could have significant implications for patient outcomes. Show more

Keywords: Liver segmentation, classification, deep learning, and mask RCNN

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232195

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Jayachandran, A. | Ganesh, S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Microaneurysms, tiny, circular red dots that occur in retinal fundus images, are one of the earliest symptoms of diabetic retinopathy. Because microaneurysms are small and delicate, detecting them can be difficult. Their small size and cunning character make automatic detection of them difficult. In this study, a novel encoder-decoder network is proposed to segment the MAs automatically and accurately. The encoder part mainly consists of three parts: a low-level feature extraction module composed of a dense connectivity block (Dense Block), a High-resolution Block (HR Block), and an Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module, of which the latter two modules are …used to extract high-level information. Therefore, the network is named a Multi-Level Features based Deep Convolutional Neural Network (MF-DCNN). The proposed decoder takes advantage of the multi-scale features from the encoder to predict MA regions. Compared with the existing methods on three datasets, it is proved that the proposed method is better than the current excellent methods in the segmentation results of the normal and abnormal fundus. In the case of fewer network parameters, MF-DCNN achieves better prediction performance on intersection over union (IoU), dice similarity coefficient (DSC), and other evaluation metrics. MF-DCNN is lightweight and able to use multi-scale features to predict MA regions. It can be used to automatically segment the MA and assist in computer-aided diagnosis. Show more

Keywords: Microaneurysm detection, fundus images, segmentation, features

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230154

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-17, 2023

Authors: Narayanan, Badri | Muthusamy, Sreekumar

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract:  The performance of Interval type-2 fuzzy logic system (IT2FLS) can be affected by many factors including the type of reduction methodology followed and the kind of membership function applied. Further, a particular membership function is influenced by its construction, the type of optimisation and adaptiveness applied, and the learning scheme adopted. The available literature lags in providing detailed information about such factors affecting the performance of IT2FLS. In this work, an attempt has been made to comprehensively study the factors affecting the performance of IT2FLS by introducing a new trapezoidal-triangular membership function (TTMF). A real-time application of drilling operation has …been considered as an example for predicting temperature of the job, which is considered as one of the key state variables to evaluate. A detailed comparison based on membership functions (MFs) such as triangular membership function (TrMF), trapezoidal membership function (TMF), the newly introduced trapezoidal-triangular membership function (TTMF), semi-elliptic membership function (SEMF), and Gaussian membership function (GMF) has been performed and presented. Further, the average error rate obtained with two “type-reduction” methods such as “Wu-Mendel” uncertainty bounds and Center of sets type reduction (COS TR) has also been discussed. This study provides information for selecting a particular MF and “type reduction” scheme for the implementation of IT2FLS. Also, concludes that MF having fewer parameters such as GMF and SEMF possess significant advantages in terms of computation complexity compared to others. Show more

Keywords: Interval type-2 fuzzy logic system, semi-elliptic membership function, trapezoidal membership function, trapezoidal-triangular membership function, center of sets type reduction, Wu-Mendel uncertainty bound

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231412

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Zheng, Xuehui | Wang, Jun | Gao, You

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Selecting appropriate Cluster Heads (CHs) can significantly enhance the lifetime of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Fuzzy logic is an effective approach for CH election. However, existing fuzzy-logic-based CH election methods usually require a large number of fuzzy rules, making the CH election procedure inefficiency. In this study, a data-driven CH election method is proposed based on a compact set of fuzzy rules, which are learned by group sparse Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (GS-TSK) fuzzy system. Specifically, five linguistic variables were first used as features to describe the status of sensor nodes. After that, a compact set of fuzzy rules were learned by …GS-TSK, and they were then used to predict the chance of each sensor node becoming a CH. Based on the selected CHs, the clusters are generated. Simulation results show that the GS-TSK can select CHs with fewer rules more accurately. Besides, by using the proposed DD-FLC, an average improvement of WSN was shown in terms of first node dead (FND), 10% of nodes dead (10PND), quarter of nodes dead (QND), half of nodes dead (HND). Show more

Keywords: Wireless sensor network, sparse learning, TSK fuzzy system, GS-TSK

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-224252

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Zhao, Hongyan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: China has now embraced the information era, which has had a significant impact on everyday life, employment, and educational practices. Information technology has also had a significant impact on the growth of the education sector, resulting in a fast-paced and resource-rich setting for student interaction. Through the network platform, various interactive software can improve students’ learning methods, especially language teaching software. English audio-visual speaking is software for training English language listening and speaking, which can carry out relevant oral activities and topic discussions according to the imported materials. As a result, you can assist pupils in using the vocabulary and …knowledge associated with the subject, which will increase their interest in learning. English teachers can fully prepare for speaking and listening tasks in the classroom by using audio-visual speaking. At the same time, through the learning of TV and movie trailers, English audio-visual speaking can provide readers with background knowledge, which is ready for readers to fully understand the language and content in the video materials. Based on information technology, this paper constructs English audio-visual and oral mobile teaching software, which depends on interactive digital media algorithms. Through the mobile teaching software for English audio-visual speaking, students can form good English listening and reading habits, which will provide important help for English language learning.First, this essay examines the value and benefits of mobile applications for providing English instruction orally and visually, which might help to illustrate the need for software development. The research then suggests various algorithms for English that are related to audio, visual, and oral input that can detect, assess, and correct students’ learning mistakes. Finally, this work develops the fundamental methodology of the audio-visual and verbal mobile software for instruction in English. Show more

Keywords: Interactive digital media algorithm, English audio-visual speaking, mobile teaching software

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233741

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Chen, Rong | Lan, Furong | Wang, Jianhua

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In order to effectively control the pressure and energy consumption of multiple air compressors within an acceptable range, an intelligent pressure switching control method for air compressor group control based on multi-agent RL is studied. This method uses sensors in the air compressor field control cabinet to collect data such as header pressure, air storage tank pressure, and air storage tank temperature and sends them to the edge data collector for integration. After integration, the main control cabinet sends them to the upper computer. Combined with the on-site collected data, a multi-agent-based air compressor group control model is designed to …convert multiple air compressors in the air compressor group control problem into a multi-agent mode, facilitating unified switching control of the air compressor group. Then, using the intelligent pressure switching control method based on deep Q-learning, driven by a neural network controller, the frequency of the frequency converter is adjusted to control the pressure at the outlet of the air compressor terminal header within the set value range, completing the pressure intelligent switching control. After testing, this method has good application results in pressure control, energy saving, and other aspects after being used for intelligent pressure switching control of air compressor group control. Show more

Keywords: Multi-agent, intensive learning, air compressor group control, pressure intelligence, neural network controller

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233217

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Xu, Xiaosheng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The current conventional water resources management planning method realizes the optimal allocation of water resources by constructing a function aiming at economic benefits; it causes poor model planning repercussions as a result of the disregard of comprehensive benefits. In this regard, a hydrological model-based water resource management planning method for climate change is proposed. By combining geological conditions, hydrological conditions and other climate change factors, a hydrological model is constructed to calculate watershed flows, and the hydrological model is used to divide the watershed scale and hydrological response units. A multi-objective function planning model is constructed with economic and ecological …benefits as the objective functions. The proposed approach is tested in trials and shown to provide advantages for thorough planning. The results of the study demonstrate that the algorithm has a high value of extensive benefit when the recommended strategy is utilized for the optimum allocation of water resources, and has a more preferable optimal allocation consequence. Show more

Keywords: Hydrological modeling, climate change, water resources, management planning, optimal allocation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233939

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-10, 2023

Authors: Rajesh Kanna, R. | Ulagamuthalvi, V.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Diagnosis is given top priority in terms of farm resource allocation, because it directly affects the GDP of the country. Crop analysis at an early stage is important for verifying the efficient crop output. Computer vision has a number of intriguing and demanding concerns, including disease detection. After China, India is the world’s second-largest creator of wheat. However, there exist algorithms that can accurately identify the most prevalent illnesses of wheat leaves. To help farmers keep track on a large area of wheat plantation, leaf image and data processing techniques have recently been deployed extensively and in pricey systems. In …this study, a hybrid pre-processing practice is used to remove undesired distortions while simultaneously enhancing the images. Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is used to segment the affected areas from the pre-processed images. The data is then incorporated into a disease classification model using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). It was tested using Kaggle data and several metrics to see how efficient the suggested approach was. This study demonstrates that the traditional Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) technique achieved 91.94% accuracy on the input images, but the hybrid pre-processing model with CNN achieved 95.06 percent accuracy. Show more

Keywords: Plant leaves diseases, convolutional neural network, fuzzy c-means, wheat production, pre-processing techniques

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233672

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Prabu Shankar, K.C. | Shyry, S. Prayla

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Early detection of diseases in men and women can improve treatment and reduce the risk involved in human life. Nowadays techniques which are non-invasive in nature are popularly used to detect the various types of diseases. Histopathological analysis plays a major role in finding the nature of the disease through medical images. Manual interpretation of these medical imaging takes time, is tedious, subjective, and can have human errors. It has also been discovered that the interpretation of these images varies amongst diagnostic labs. As computer power and memory capacity have increased, methodologies and medical image processing techniques have been developed …to interpret and analyse these images as a substitute for human involvement. The challenge lies in devising an efficient pre-processing technique that helps in analysing, processing and preparing the medical image for further diagnostics. This research provides a hybrid technique that reduces noise in the NITFI medical image by using a 2D adaptive median filter at level 1. The edges of the filtered medical image are preserved using the modified CLAHE algorithm which preserves the local contrast of the image. Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm extracts the ROI part of the image which helps in easy and accurate identification of the disease. All the three steps are run over the 3D image slices of a NIFTI image. The proposed method proves that it achieves close to ideal RMSE, PSNR and UQI values as well as achieves an average runtime of 37.193 seconds for EM per slice. Show more

Keywords: 2D adaptive, expectation maximization, NIFTI, UQI, edge preservation, 3D slice, computational intelligence

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233931

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Meena, Rakesh | Joshi, Sunil | Raghuwanshi, Sandeep

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract:  Rice is a staple meal that helps people worldwide access sufficient food. However, this crop has several illnesses, significantly lowering its production and quality. Because of this, it is imperative to conduct early disease detection to halt the spread of infections. Because of this, it is desirable to develop an automatic system that will help agronomists, pathologists, and indeed growers in directly diagnosing rice diseases. This would allow for preventative measures to be done as quickly as feasible. In this day and age of artificial intelligence, researchers have experimented with various learning approaches to discover diseases that can affect rice …plants. Deep learning has recently seen considerable use in many computer vision and image analysis fields, becoming one of the most prominent machine learning algorithms. Deep learning has also recently found substantial usage in many computer vision and picture analysis fields. On the other hand, deep learning methods have seen very little application in plant disease recognition, except for some ongoing research centered on the problem and using a public dataset of pictures magnified to show plant leaves. Because of their high computational complexity, which requires a huge memory cost, and the complexity of experimental materials’ backgrounds, which makes it difficult to train an efficient model, deep learning methods have only seen limited use in plant disease recognition. This is due to several factors, including the following: The Inception module was improved to recognise and detect rice plant illnesses in this research by substituting the original convolutions with architecture based on modified-Xception (M-Xception). In addition, ResNet extracts features by prioritising logarithm calculations over softmax calculations to get more consistent classification outcomes. The model’s training utilised a two-stage transfer learning process to produce an effective model. The results of the experiments reveal that the suggested approach can achieve the specified level of performance, with an average recognition fineness of 99.73% on the public dataset and 98.05% on the domestic dataset, respectively. Our proposed work is better as per existing methods and models. Show more

Keywords: Deep learning, rice crop, disease detection, feature extraction, M-Xception model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230655

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Rajendran, Aishwarya | Ganesan, Sumathi | Rathis Babu, T.K.S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Brain tumor is observed to be grown in irregular shape and presented deep inside the tissues that led to cancer. Human brain tumor identification and categorization are performed with high latency, but also an essential task for the medical experts. The assistance through the automated diagnosis is generally utilized for the advancement in the diagnosis ability in order to get superior accuracy in brain tumor detection. Although the researches are enhancing the brain tumor detection performance, the highly challenging is to segment the brain tumor since it has variability concerning the tumor type, contrast, image modality and also in other …factors. To meet up all the challenges, a novel classification method is introduced using segmentation and machine learning approaches. Initially, the required images are collected from benchmark data sources. The input images are undergone for pre-processing stage, where it is done via “Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) and filtering methods”. Further, the pre-processed imagesare given as input to two classifier models as “Residual Network (ResNet) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)”, in which the model provide the result as normal and abnormal images. In the second part, obtained abnormal image acts an input for segmentation step. In segmentation, it is needed to extract the relevant features by texture and spatial features. The resultant features are subjected for optimizing, where the optimal features are acquired through Adaptive Coyote Optimization Algorithm (ACOA). Then, the extracted features are fed into machine learning model like “Support Vector Machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Random Forest (RF)” to render the segmented image. Finally, the hybrid classification named Hybrid ResGRUis developed by integrating the ResNet and GRU, where the hyper parameters are tuned optimally using developed ACOA, thus it is used for classifying the abnormal image that belongs to benign stage or malignant stage. The experimental results are evaluated, and its performance is analyzed by various metrics. Hence, the proposed classification model ensures effective segmentation and classification performance. Show more

Keywords: Brain tumour segmentation and classification, adaptive coyote optimization algorithm, residual network, gated recurrent unit, ensemble machine learning-based tumor segmentation, deep learning-based classification

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233546

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Jahanpanah, Sirus | Hamidi, Mohammad

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Fuzzy graphs as labeled graphs (fuzzy vertex labeling and fuzzy edge labeling) have many applications in real life such as complex networks, coding theory, medical sciences, communication networks, and management sciences. Also, triangular norms as a special class of functions, have many applications in fuzzy set theory, probability and statistics, and other areas. This paper considers the notations of an inverse fuzzy graph and triangular norms to introduce the new type of graphs as valued-inverse Dombi fuzzy graphs. The valued-inverse Dombi fuzzy graphs are a generalization of inverse fuzzy graphs and are dual to Dombi fuzzy graphs. For any given …greater than or equal to one real number, we construct a type of Dombi inverse fuzzy graph and investigate some conditions such that the product and union of Dombi inverse fuzzy graphs be a Dombi inverse fuzzy graph. Show more

Keywords: Fuzzy subset, Dombi triangular operator, valued-Dombi inverse fuzzy graph, Mathematics Subject Classification: 03E72, 05C72

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231535

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Abdus Subhahan, D. | Vinoth Kumar, C.N.S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The worldwide deforestation rate worsens year after year, ultimately resulting in a variety of severe implications for both mankind and the environment. In order to track the success of forest preservation activities, it is crucial to establish a reliable forest monitoring system. Changes in forest status are extremely difficult to manually annotate due to the tiny size and subtlety of the borders involved, particularly in regions abutting residential areas. Previous forest monitoring systems failed because they relied on low-resolution satellite images and drone-based data, both of which have inherent limitations. Most government organizations still use manual annotation, which is a …slow, laborious, and costly way to keep tabs on data. The purpose of this research is to find a solution to these problems by building a poly-highway forest convolution network using deep learning to automatically detect forest borders so that changes over time may be monitored. Here initially the data was curated using the dynamic decomposed kalman filter. Then the data can be augmented. Afterward the augmented image features can be fused using the multimodal discriminant centroid feature clustering. Then the selected area can be segmented using the iterative initial seeded algorithm (IISA). Finally, the level and the driver of deforestation can be classified using the poly-highway forest convolution network (PHFCN). The whole experimentation was carried out in a dataset of 6048 Landsat-8 satellite sub-images under MATLAB environment. From the result obtained the suggested methodology express satisfied performance than other existing mechanisms. Show more

Keywords: Deforestation, dynamic decomposed kalman filter, multimodal discriminant centroid feature clustering, iterative initial seeded algorithm, poly-highway forest convolution network

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233534

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Wang, Yongjie | Lu, Chang-e | Cheng, Zhihong | Wang, Juan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Optimizing the allocation of preschool education resources and improving the efficiency of resource allocation is of great strategic significance for the universal and inclusive development of preschool education and the realization of “education for young children". In recent years, the shift from high-speed development to high-quality development of the social economy has significantly improved the balanced development level of China’s preschool education industry. However, preschool education remains the weakest link in China’s education system and the most unfavorable aspect of educational resource allocation. Problems such as shortage of preschool education resources, insufficient investment, uneven regional development, imbalanced supply and demand …structure, low resource allocation efficiency, and “difficult to enter, expensive to enter” are still prominent. How to optimize resource allocation and improve resource utilization efficiency in the limited resources of preschool education is the key to achieving balanced, fair, coordinated, and high-quality development of preschool education. The county preschool education resource allocation level evaluation is MAGDM problems. Recently, the TODIM and TOPSIS technique was employed to cope with MAGDM issues. The interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets (IVPFSs) are employed as a tool for characterizing uncertain information during the county preschool education resource allocation level evaluation. In this manuscript, the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy TODIM-TOPSIS (IVPF-TODIM-TOPSIS) technique is built to solve the MAGDM under IVPFSs. Finally, a numerical case study for county preschool education resource allocation level evaluation is given to validate the proposed technique. The main contribution of this paper is managed: (1) the TODIM and TOPSIS technique was extended to IVPFSs; (2) Information Entropy is employed to manage the weight values under IVPFSs. (3) the IVPF-TODIM-TOPSIS technique is founded to manage the MAGDM under IVPFSs; (4) Algorithm analysis for county preschool education resource allocation level evaluation and comparison analysis are constructed based on one numerical example to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the IVPF-TODIM-TOPSIS technique. Show more

Keywords: Multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets (IVPFSs), TODIM technique, TOPSIS technique, education resource allocation level evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233742

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Agrawal, Monika | Moparthi, Nageswara Rao

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Sentiment analysis (SA)at the sentence, aspect, and document levels determines the sentiment of particular aspect phrases in a given sentence. Due to their capacity to extract sentiment information from text in aspect-level sentiment classification, neural networks (NNs) have achieved significant success. Generally speaking, sufficiently sizable training corpora are necessary for NNs to be effective. The performance of NN-based systems is reduced by the small size of the aspect-level corpora currently available. In this research, we suggest a gated bilateral recurrent neural network (G-Bi-RNN) as a foundation for multi-source data fusion, their system offers sentiment information that several sources. We develop …a uniform architecture specifically to include information from sentimental lexicons, including aspect- and sentence-level corpora. To further provide aspect-specific phrase representations for SA, we use G-Bi-RNN, a deep bilateral Transformer-based pre-trained language model. We assess our methods using SemEval 2014 datasets for laptops and restaurants. According to experimental findings, our method consistently outperforms cutting-edge techniques on all datasets. We use a number of well-known aspect-level SA datasets to assess the efficacy of our model. Experiments show that when compared to baseline models, the suggested model can produce state-of-the-art results. Show more

Keywords: Sentiment analysis (SA), gated bilateral recurrent neural network (G-Bi-RNN), language model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234076

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Wang, Weize | Feng, Yurui

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Intuitionistic fuzzy (IF) information aggregation in multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a substantial stream that has attracted significant research attention. There are various IF aggregation operators have been suggested for extracting more informative data from imprecise and redundant raw information. However, some of the aggregation techniques that are currently being applied in IF environments are non-monotonic with respect to the total order, and suffer from high computational complexity and inflexibility. It is necessary to develop some novel IF aggregation operators that can surpass these imperfections. This paper aims to construct some IF aggregation operators based on Yager’s triangular norms to …shed light on decision-making issues. At first, we present some novel IF operations such as Yager sum, Yager product and Yager scalar multiplication on IF sets. Based on these new operations, we propose the IF Yaeger weighted geometric operator and the IF Yaeger ordered weighted geometric operator, and prove that they are monotone with respect to the total order. Then, the focus on IF MCDM have motivated the creation of a new MCDM model that relies on suggested operators. We show the applicability and validity of the model by using it to select the most influential worldwide supplier for a manufacturing company and evaluate the most efficient method of health-care disposal. In addition, we discuss the sensitivity of the proposed operator to decision findings and criterion weights, and also analyze it in comparison with some existing aggregation operators. The final results show that the proposed operator is suitable for aggregating both IF information on “non-empty lattice" and IF data on total orders. Show more

Keywords: Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, aggregation operators, Yager triangular norms, monotonicity, multi-criteria decision-making

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234906

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-17, 2023

Authors: Yuan, Yuan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With the development of national economy and the increase of foreign trade, Business English has become one of the most popular majors in universities. In order to cultivate business English talents for the national society and adapt to the requirements of the times, the innovation of English teaching concepts and the reform of teaching techniques are the only way for business English majors teaching in universities. The colleges business English teaching quality evaluation is considered as a multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM). In this paper, the EDAS technique is expanded to the single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) and the single-valued neutrosophic …number EDAS (SVNN-EDAS) technique based on Euclid distance and cosine similarity measure (CSM) is constructed to manage MAGDM. The CRITIC technique is employed to achieve the weight information based on Euclid distance and CSM technique under SVNSs. Finally, the colleges business English teaching quality evaluation is employed to demonstrate the SVNN-EDAS technique and some comparative analysis is employed to demonstrate the SVNN-EDAS. Thus, the main research contribution of this work is then constructed: (1) the CRITIC technique is built to get the attribute’s weight based on Euclid distance and CSM technique; (2) the SVNN-EDAS technique is constructed under SVNNs based on Euclid distance and CSM technique; (3) an example for colleges business English teaching quality evaluation is employed to verify SVNN-EDAS technique and several decision comparative analysis are employed to verify the SVNN-EDAS. Show more

Keywords: Multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM), single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs), EDAS technique, cosine similarity measure (CSM), teaching quality evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233786

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Pughazendi, N. | Valarmathi, K. | Rajaraman, P.V. | Balaji, S.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) devices installed in hospital direct data unceasingly; in this manner, energy usage augments with the number of broadcasts too. In this paper, Reliable Cluster based Data Collection Framework (RCDCF) for IoT-Big Data Healthcare Applications (HA) is developed. During clustering process, the connected IoT devices are grouped into clusters. In clustering technique, the available IoT devices are gathered into groups. The device with high battery capacity and processing ability is selected as a cluster head (CH). Each member of the cluster is allocated multiple slots by applying a general function pooled by the Fog node and the …entire devices. To perceive and eliminate outliers from the sensor data, Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) method is utilized. To forecast the objective and subjective behaviours of the equipments, a Random Forest Deep Neural Network (RF-DNN) based classification model is utilized. By experimental results, it has been shown that RCDCF achieves 19% and 20% reduced energy consumption at Cloud and Fog centers, respectively. Moreover, RCDCF has 2.1% and 1.3% increased correctness of data at Cloud and Fog data centers, respectively, when compared to the existing framework. Show more

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud, clustering, health care solution, slot allocation, Random Forest Deep Neural Network (RF-DNN), categorization

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233505

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-10, 2023

Authors: Kadry, Heba | Samak, Ahmed H. | Ghorashi, Sara | Alhammad, Sarah M. | Abukwaik, Abdulwahab | Taloba, Ahmed I. | Zanaty, Elnomery A.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Coronavirus is a new pathogen that causes both the upper and lower respiratory systems. The global COVID-19 pandemic’s size, rate of transmission, and the number of deaths is all steadily rising. COVID-19 instances could be detected and analyzed using Computed Tomography scanning. For the identification of lung infection, chest CT imaging has the advantages of speedy detection, relatively inexpensive, and high sensitivity. Due to the obvious minimal information available and the complicated image features, COVID-19 identification is a difficult process. To address this problem, modified-Deformed Entropy (QDE) algorithm for CT image scanning is suggested. To enhance the number of training …samples for effective testing and training, the suggested method utilizes QDE to generate CT images. The retrieved features are used to classify the results. Rapid innovations in quantum mechanics had prompted researchers to use Quantum Machine Learning (QML) to test strategies for improvement. Furthermore, the categorization of corona diagnosed, and non-diagnosed pictures is accomplished through Quanvolutional Neural Network (QNN). To determine the suggested techniques, the results are related with other methods. For processing the COVID-19 imagery, the study relates QNN with other existing methods. On comparing with other models, the suggested technique produced improved outcomes. Also, with created COVID-19 CT images, the suggested technique outperforms previous state-of-the-art image synthesis techniques, indicating possibilities for different machine learning techniques such as cognitive segmentation and classification. As a result of the improved model training/testing, the image classification results are more accurate. Show more

Keywords: Coronavirus, quantum machine learning, quanvolutional neural network, Q-deformed entropy

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233633

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Subburaj, S. | Murugavalli, S. | Muthusenthil, B.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: SLR, which assists hearing-impaired people to communicate with other persons by sign language, is considered as a promising method. However, as the features of some of the static SL could be the same as the feature in a single frame of dynamic Isolated Sign Language (ISL), the generation of accurate text corresponding to the SL is necessary during the SLR. Therefore, Edge-directed Interpolation-based Recurrent Neural Network (EI-RNN)-centered text generation with varied features of the static and dynamic Isolated SL is proposed in this article. Primarily, ISL videos are converted to frames and pre-processed with key frame extraction and illumination control. …After that, the foreground is separated with the Symmetric Normalised Laplacian-centered Otsu Thresholding (SLOT) technique for finding accurate key points in the human pose. The human pose’s key points are extracted with the Media Pipeline Holistic (MPH) pipeline approach and to improve the features of the face and hand sign, the resultant frame is fused with the depth image. After that, to differentiate the static and dynamic actions, the action change in the fused frames is determined with a correlation matrix. After that, to engender the output text for the respective SL, features are extracted individually as of the static and dynamic frames. It is obtained from the analysis that when analogized to the prevailing models, the proposed EI-RNN’s translation accuracy is elevated by 2.05% in INCLUDE 50 Indian SL based Dataset and Top 1 Accuracy 2.44% and Top 10 accuracy, 1.71% improved in WLASL 100 American SL. Show more

Keywords: Isolated Sign Language (ISL), Sign Language Recognition (SLR), Edge directed Interpolation based Recurrent Neural Network (EIRNN), text generation, word level sign language, Media Pipeline Holistic (MPH)

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233610

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Li, Meng | Wang, Xue-ping

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In order to guarantee the downloading quality requirements of users and improve the stability of data transmission in a BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer file sharing system, this article deals with eigenproblems of addition-min algebras. First, it provides a sufficient and necessary condition for a vector being an eigenvector of a given matrix, and then presents an algorithm for finding all the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a given matrix. It further proposes a sufficient and necessary condition for a vector being a constrained eigenvector of a given matrix and supplies an algorithm for computing all the constrained eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a given …matrix. This article finally discusses the supereigenproblem of a given matrix and presents an algorithm for obtaining the maximum constrained supereigenvalue and depicting the feasible region of all the constrained supereigenvectors for a given matrix. It also gives some examples for illustrating the algorithms, respectively. Show more

Keywords: Fuzzy relation inequality, Addition-min composition, Eigenvalue, Eigenvector, Algorithm

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234499

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-13, 2023

Authors: Li, Mengyang | Wang, Nan | Fu, Zhumu | Tao, Fazhan | Zhou, Tao

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this paper, the robust stability of nonlinear system with unknown perturbation is considered combining operator-based right coprime factorization and fuzzy control method from the input-output view of point. In detail, fuzzy logic system is firstly combined with operator-based right coprime factorization method to study the uncertain nonlinear system. By using the operator-based fuzzy controller, the unknown perturbation is formulated, and a sufficient condition of guaranteeing robust stability is given by systematic calculation, which reduces difficulties in designing controller and calculating inverse of Bezout identity. Implications of the results related to former results are briefly compared and discussed. Finally, a …simulation example is shown to confirm effectiveness of the proposed design scheme of this paper. Show more

Keywords: Nonlinear systems, coprime factorization, robust stability, unknown perturbation, fuzzy control, robust control

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231879

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-9, 2023

Authors: Sathish, E. | Muthukumar, R.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In agriculture, selecting an “appropriate plant for an appropriate soil” is a crucial stage for all sorts of lands. There are different types of soil found in India. It is necessary to understand the features of the soil type to predict the types of crops cultivated in a particular soil. This leads to significant inconsistencies and errors in large-scale soil mapping. However, manually analyzing the soil type in the laboratory is cost-effective and time-consuming, yet it produces an inaccurate classification result. To overcome these challenges, a novel AQU-FRC Net (Aquila – Faster Regional Convolutional Neural Neural) is proposed for the …automatic prediction of soil and recommending suitable crops based on a soil-crop relationship database. The soil images were pre-processed using a Scalable Range-based Adaptive Bilateral Filter (SCRAB) for eliminating the noise artifacts from the images. The pre-processed images were classified using Faster-RCNN, which utilized MobileNet as a feature extraction network. The classification results were optimized by the Aquila optimization (AQU) algorithm that normalizes the parameters of the network to achieve better results. The proposed AQU-FRC Net achieves a high accuracy of 98.16% for predicting soil. The experimental results demonstrate that the model successfully predicts the soil when compared to other meta-heuristic-based methods. Show more

Keywords: MobileNet, Aquila – Faster RCNN, Faster-RCNN, meta-heuristic, aquila optimization

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230408

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Lv, Zhenzhe | Liu, Qicheng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In the era of big data, the complexity of data is increasing. Problems such as data imbalance and class overlap pose challenges to traditional classifiers. Meanwhile, the importance of imbalanced data has become increasingly prominent, it is necessary to find appropriate methods to enhance classification performance of classifiers on such datasets. In response, this paper proposes a mixed sampling method (ISODF-ENN) based on iterative self-organizing (ISODATA) denoising diffusion algorithm and edited nearest neighbors (ENN) data cleaning algorithm. The algorithm first uses iterative self-organizing clustering algorithm to divide minority class into different sub-clusters, then it uses denoising diffusion algorithm to generate …new minority class data for each sub-cluster, and finally it uses ENN algorithm to preprocess majority class data to remove the overlap with the minority class data. Each sub-cluster is oversampled according to sampling ratio, so that the oversampled minority class data also conforms to the distribution of original minority class data. Experimental results on keel datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms other methods in terms of F-value and AUC, effectively addressing the issues of class imbalance and class overlap. Show more

Keywords: Imbalanced data, diffusion model, mixed-sampling, ISODATA, ENN

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233886

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Zhang, An | Li, Minghao | Bi, Wenhao

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) formation shape refers to the geometric shape when multi-UAVs fly in formation and describes their relative positions. It plays a necessary role in multi-UAVs collaboration to improve performance, avoid collision, and provide reference for control. This study aims to determine the most appropriate multi-UAVs formation shape in a specific mission to meet different and even conflicting requirements. The proposed approach introduces requirement satisfaction and spherical fuzzy analytic network process (SFANP) to improve the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). First, multi-UAVs capability criteria and their evaluation models are constructed. Next, performance …data are transformed into requirement satisfaction of capability and unified into a same scale. Qualitative judgments are made and quantified based on spherical fuzzy sets and nonlinear transformation functions are developed for benefit, cost, and interval metrics. Then, SFANP is used to handle interrelationships among criteria and determine their global weights, which takes decision vagueness and hesitancy into account and extends decision-makers’ preference domain onto a spherical surface. Finally, alternative formation shapes are ranked by their distances to the positive and negative ideal solution according to the TOPSIS. Furthermore, a case study of 9 UAVs performing a search-attack mission is set up to illustrate the proposed approach, and a comparative analysis is conducted to verify the applicability and credibility. Show more

Keywords: Multi-UAVs, formation shape, requirement satisfaction, spherical fuzzy sets, analytic network process, TOPSIS

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231494

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Sun, Peixi | Cui, Tong | Qi, Shixin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Corporate culture is an objective existence that arises with the rise and development of enterprises. It originates from enterprise practice and influences the behavior of employees. Whether it is intentional identification or unintentional avoidance, corporate culture is not a question of absence, but a question of quality; It’s not about non-existent issues, but about the magnitude of their influence. Therefore, building a corporate culture that conforms to the characteristics of the enterprise and is recognized by the majority of employees, continuously enhancing the influence of corporate culture, is a very important topic in the construction of corporate culture. The corporate …culture influence evaluation is looked as the multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem. The intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) are easy to depict the uncertain information during the corporate culture influence evaluation. Then, intuitionistic fuzzy Combined Compromise Solution (IF-CoCoSo) method is designed under IFSs. Furthermore, IF-CoCoSo is used to cope with the MAGDM. At last, an example is supplied for corporate culture influence evaluation to prove the practicability of the IF-CoCoSo method and some comparative analysis are conducted to verify the effectiveness of IF-CoCoSo method. Thus, the main objectives of this paper are outlined as follows: (1) the CRITIC method is used to obtain the weight information; (2) intuitionistic fuzzy Combined Compromise Solution (IF-CoCoSo) method is designed under IFSs; (3) IF-CoCoSo is used to cope with the MAGDM based on CRITIC weight information and Euclidean distance; (4) At last, an example is supplied for corporate culture influence evaluation to prove the practicability of the IF-CoCoSo method and some comparative analysis are conducted to show the effectiveness of IF-CoCoSo method. Show more

Keywords: Multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM), intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs), IF-CoCoSo method, CRITIC weight method, corporate culture influence evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232044

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Rahim, Muhammad | Eldin, ElSayed M. Tag | Khan, Salma | Ghamry, Nivin A. | Alanzi, Agaeb Mahal | Khalifa, Hamiden Abd El-Wahed

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: In this study, we introduce The p , q -quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi operators, including p , q -quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi weighted averaging (p , q -QOFDWA), p , q -quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi ordered weighted averaging (p , q -QOFDOWA), p , q -quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi weighted geometric (p , q -QOFDWG), and p , q -quasirung orthopair fuzzy Dombi ordered weighted geometric (p , q -QOFDOWG) operators. These operators effectively manage imprecise and uncertain information, outperforming other fuzzy sets like the Pythagorean fuzzy set (PFS) and q-rung orthopair fuzzy set (q-ROFS). We investigate their properties, including …boundedness and monotonicity, and demonstrate their applicability in multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems within a p , q -quasirung orthopair fuzzy (p , q -QOF) environment. To showcase the practicality, we present a real-world scenario involving the selection of investment alternatives as an illustrative example. Our findings highlight the significant advantage and potential of these operators for handling uncertainty in decision-making. Show more

Keywords: p, q-quasirung orthopair fuzzy sets, Dombi norms, aggregation operators, decision-making

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233327

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-22, 2023

Authors: Prasath, N. | Arun, A. | Saravanan, B. | Kamaraj, Kanagaraj

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Intelligent Fuzzy Edge Computing (IFEC) has emerged as an innovative technology to enable real-time decision-making in Internet of Things (IoT)-based Digital Twin environments. Digital Twins provide virtual models of physical systems, facilitating predictive maintenance and optimization. However, implementing real-time decision-making in these environments is challenging due to massive data volumes and need for quick response times. IFEC addresses this by offering a flexible, scalable and efficient platform for real-time decision-making. This paper presents an overview of key aspects of IFEC including fuzzy logic, edge computing and Digital Twins. The use of fuzzy logic in IFEC provides an adaptive framework for …handling uncertainties in data. Edge computing enables localized processing, reducing latency. The integration of Digital Twins allows system monitoring, analysis and optimization. Potential applications of IFEC are highlighted in domains such as manufacturing, healthcare, energy management and transportation. Recent advancements in IFEC are also discussed, covering new fuzzy inference systems, edge computing architectures, Digital Twin modeling techniques and security mechanisms. Overall, IFEC shows great promise in enabling real-time decision-making in complex IoT-based Digital Twin environments across various industries. Further research on IFEC will facilitate the ongoing digital transformation of industrial systems. Show more

Keywords: Intelligent fuzzy edge computing, real-time decision making, IoT-based digital twins, predictive maintenance, fuzzy logic, edge computing

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233495

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Tuyet, Vo Thi Hong | Binh, Nguyen Thanh | Tin, Dang Thanh

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With the medical internet of things, many automated diagnostic models related to eye diseases are easier. The doctors could quickly contrast and compare retina fundus images. The retina image contains a lot of information in the image. The task of detecting diabetic macular edema from retinal images in the healthcare system is difficult because the details in these images are very small. This paper proposed the new model based on the medical internet of things for predicting diabetic macular edema in retina fundus images. The method called DMER (Diabetic Macular Edema in Retina fundus images) to detect diabetic macular edema …in retina fundus images based on improving deep residual network being combined with feature pyramid network in the context of the medical internet of things. The DMER method includes the following stages: (i) ResNet101 improved combining with feature pyramid network is used to extract features of the image and obtain the map of these features; (ii) a region proposal network to look for potential anomalies; and (iii) the predicted bounding boxes against the true bounding box by the regression method to certify the capability of macular edema. The MESSIDOR and DIARETDB1 datasets are used for testing with evaluation criteria such as sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. The accuracy of the DMER method is about 98.08% with MESSIDOR dataset and 98.92% with DIARETDB1 dataset. The results of the method DMER are better than those of the other methods up to the present time with the above datasets. Show more

Keywords: Diabetic macular edema, ResNet101, feature map, region proposal network, region of interest, medical internet of things

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234649

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Moosavi, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Hashemi | Araghi, Mohammad Ali Fariborzi | Ziari, Shokrollah

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Mathematical modeling of many natural and physical phenomena in industry, engineering sciences and basic sciences lead to linear and non-linear devices. In many cases, the coefficients of these devices, taking into account qualitative or linguistic concepts, show their complexity in the form of Z -numbers. Since Z -number involves both fuzziness and reliability or probabilistic uncertainty, it is difficult to obtain the exact solution to the problems with Z -number. In this work, a method and an algorithm are proposed for the approximate solution of a Z -number linear system of equations as an important case of such problems. The …paper is devoted to solving linear systems where the coefficients of the variables and right hand side values are Z -numbers. An algorithm is presented based on a ranking scheme and the neural network technique to solve the obtained system. Moreover, two examples are included to describe the procedure of the method and results. Show more

Keywords: Z-numbers, fuzzy number, linear systems of equations, artificial neural networks

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232452

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Wang, Yibo

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With the development of digital creative industry and the use of more emerging digital technologies, the forms of digital cultural and creative design products are also increasingly diversified. Unlike traditional cultural and creative design products, digital cultural and creative design products are no longer limited to physical products, but appear more in the field of exhibition, virtual reality and product visualization. At the initial stage of the combination of digital information technology and cultural and creative content, digital cultural and creative design products, unlike ordinary cultural and creative design products, opened a new vision for users. The design quality evaluation …of digital cultural and creative design products is viewed as a multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM). The single-value neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) concept and its interval-valued version (Interval-valued neutrosophic sets, IVNSs) are within the recent rapid developments for managing the uncertain representation problem in MCGDM. In SVNSs, decision makers (DMs) could portray membership, non-membership and hesitancy. IVNSs expands this useful feature through portraying intervals to these three information decision degrees. In this manner, the uncertainty, ambiguity and vagueness hidden in human judgements could be quantified more efficiently. IVNSs have been widely employed and researched in MCGDM. The main purpose of this paper is to proposed the Interval-valued neutrosophic number MABAC (IVNN-MABAC) technique based on prospect theory (PT) to address the MCGDM. Eventually, an example for design quality evaluation of digital cultural and creative design products and some comparative analysis was employed to demonstrate the superiority of the designed technique. Show more

Keywords: MCGDM, IVNSs, MABAC technique, design quality evaluation, digital cultural, creative product

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230520

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-12, 2023

Authors: Dandugala, Lakshmi Srinivasulu | Vani, Koneru Suvarna

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Big data analytics (BDA) is a systematic way to analyze and detect various patterns, relationships, and trends in vast amounts of data. Big data analysis and processing require significant effort, techniques, and equipment. The Hadoop framework software uses the MapReduce approach to do large-scale data analysis using parallel processing in order to generate results as soon as possible. Due to the traditional algorithm’s longer execution time and difficulty in processing big amounts of data, this is one of the main issues. Clusters are highly correlated inside each other but are not highly correlated with one another. The technique of effectively …allocating limited resources is known as an optimization algorithm for clustering. For processing large amounts of data with several dimensions, the conventional optimization approach is insufficient. By using a fuzzy method, this can be prevented. In this paper, we proposed Fuzzy based energy efficient clustering approach to enhance the clustering mechanism. In summary, Fuzzy based energy efficient clustering introduces a function that measures the distance between the cluster center and the instance, which aids in improved clustering, and we then present the MobileNet V2 model to improve efficiency and speed up computation. To enhance the method’s performance and reduce its time complexity, the distributed database simulates the shared memory space and parallelizes on the MapReduce framework on the Hadoop cloud computing platform. The proposed approach is evaluated using performance metrics such as Accuracy, Precision, Adjusted Rand Index (ARI), Recall, F1-Score, and Normalized Mutual Information (NMI). The experimental findings indicate that the proposed approach outperforms the existing techniques in terms of clustering accuracy. Show more

Keywords: Big data analytics (BDA), Hadoop, cloud computing, fuzzy based energy efficient clustering, MobileNet V2, MapReduce

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230387

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Wang, Jia | Zhang, Ke | Li, Jingyuan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Awareness of Network Security Situation (abbreviated as NSS for short) technology is in a period of vigorous development recently. NSS technology means network security situational awareness technology. It refers to the technology of collecting, processing, and analyzing various real-time information in the network to understand and evaluate the current network security status. It can not only find network security threats, but also reflect the NSS in the system security metrics, and provide users with targeted security protection measures. Based on data mining methods, this paper analyzed and models perceived threats and security events with data mining algorithms, and improved information …security measurement methods based on association analysis. This paper proposed network security information analysis and NSS based on data mining, and analyzed the experimental results of network awareness of NSS information security measurement. The experimental results showed that when the Timer was 8, the accuracy of the awareness of NSS information security measurement method based on data mining can reach 92.89% . The data mining model had the highest accuracy of 93.14% in situation understanding and evaluation of KDDCup-99 dataset. The results showed that the model can accurately predict the NSS. When Timer was 6, the highest accuracy of the model was 92.71% . In general, the NSS prediction mining model based on KDDCup-99 can better understand, evaluate and predict the situation. Show more

Keywords: Network security situation, data mining, information security, situation awareness

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233390

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Vishnukumar, Ravula | Ramaiah, Mangayarkarasi

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The Internet’s evolution resulted in a massive amount of data. As a result, the internet has become more sophisticated and vulnerable to massive attacks. The attack detection system is a key feature for system security in modern networks. The IDS might be signature-based or detect anomalous behavior. Researchers recently created several detection algorithms for identifying network intrusions in vehicular network security, but they failed to detect intrusions effectively. For this reason, the optimal Deep Learning approach, namely Political Fractional Dingo Optimizer (PFDOX)-based Deep belief network is introduced for attack detection in network security for vehicles. The Internet of Vehicle simulation …is done initially, and then the input data is passed into the pre-processing phase, which removes noise present in the data. Then, the feature extraction module receives the pre-processed data. The Deep Maxout Network is trained using the Fractional Dingo optimizer (FDOX)is utilized to detect normal and abnormal behavior. Fractional calculus and Dingo optimizer (DOX) are combined to create the proposed FDOX. Finally, intruder/attack types are classified using the Deep Belief Network, which is tuned using the PFDOX. The PFDOX is created by the assimilation of the DOX, Fractional Calculus, and Political Optimizer (PO). The experimental result shows that the designed PFDOX_DBN for attack type classification offers a better result based on f-measure, precision, and recall with the values of 0.924, 0.916, and 0.932, for the CIC-IDS2017 dataset. Show more

Keywords: Deep maxout network, intrusion detection, deep belief network, dingo optimizer, fractional calculus, political optimizer

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233581

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: Liu, Dashuai | Zhang, Jie | Wang, Chenlu | Ci, Weilin | Wu, Baoxia | Quan, Huafeng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: As society evolves, companies produce more homogeneous products, shifting customers’ needs from functionality to emotions. Therefore, how quickly customers select products that meet their Kansei preferences has become a key concern. However, customer Kansei preferences vary from person to person and are ambiguous and uncertain, posing a challenge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a TF-KE-GRA-TOPSIS method that integrates triangular fuzzy Kansei engineering (TF-KE) with Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). Firstly, a Kansei evaluation system is constructed based on KE and fuzzy theory. A dynamic triangular fuzzy Kansei …preference similarity decision matrix (TF-KPSDM) is defined to quantify customer satisfaction with fuzzy Kansei preferences. Secondly, dynamic objective weights are derived using Criteria Importance Though Intercrieria Correlation (CRITIC) and entropy, optimized through game theory to achieve superior combined weights. Thirdly, the GRA-TOPSIS method utilizes the TF-KPSDM and combined weights to rank products. Finally, taking the case of Kansei preference selection for electric bicycles, results indicate that the proposed method robustly avoids rank reversal and achieves greater accuracy than comparative models. This study can help companies dynamically recommend products to customers based on their Kansei preferences, increasing customer satisfaction and sales. Show more

Keywords: TF-KE-GRA-TOPSIS, CRITIC and entropy, game theory, customers’ fuzzy Kansei preferences, dynamic ranking of products

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234549

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-22, 2023

Authors: Jiang, Le | Liu, Hongbin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Some risky multi-criteria group decision making problems include payoff and probability information. To deal with these problems, this study introduces a large scale multi-criteria group decision making model based on focus theory of choice. In this model, a group of experts’ linguistic evaluations on multiple criteria are first collected to form linguistic distributions. The positive foci of the linguistic distributions are computed and aggregated into the alternatives’ scores. It is noted that in this process the linguistic terms and probabilities are aggregated by using different rules. The positive foci of the alternatives’ scores are computed and the optimal alternative is …selected. A pollution treatment evaluation problem is solved by using the proposed model, and simulation experiments and comparative analysis are given. Show more

Keywords: Focus theory of choice, linguistic distribution, multi-criteria group decision making, positive foci

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234310

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-10, 2023

Authors: Dai, Songsong | Song, Haifeng | Xu, Yingying | Du, Lei

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of (O , N )-difference, for an overlap function O and a fuzzy negation N . (O , N )-differences are weaker than fuzzy difference constructed from positive and continuous t-norms and fuzzy negations, in the sense that (O , N )-differences do not necessarily satisfy certain properties, as the right neutrality principle, but only weaker versions of these properties. This paper analyzes the main properties satisfied by (O , N )-differences, and provides a characterization of (O , N )-difference.

Keywords: Fuzzy conjunction, fuzzy difference, overlap function, t-norm

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234501

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-9, 2023

Authors: Nandipati, Bhagya Lakshmi | Devarakonda, Nagaraju

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Lung cancer incidence and mortality continue to rise rapidly around the world. According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year survivability for individuals in the metastasis phases is significantly lower, highlighting the importance of early lung cancer diagnosis for effective therapy and improved quality of life. To achieve this, it is crucial to combine PET’s sensitivity for recognizing abnormal regions with CT’s anatomical localization for evaluating PET-CT images in computer-assisted detection implementations. Current PET-CT image evaluation methods either run each modality independently or aggregate the data from both, but they often overlook the fact that different visual features encode different …types of data from different modalities. For instance, high atypical PET uptake within the lungs is more crucial for identifying tumors compared to physical PET uptake in the heart. To address the challenges of fine-grained issues during feature extraction and fusion, we propose an interpretable deep learning-based solution for lung cancer diagnosis using CT and PET images. This involves building an Optimal Adversarial Network for merging and an Optimal Attention-based Generative Adversarial Network with Classifier (Opt_att-GANC) to augment the classification of the existence and nonexistence of lung cancer based on extracted features. The performance of the Opt_att-GANC is compared with existing methodologies like global-feature encoding U-Net (GEU-Net), 3D Dense-Net, and 3D Convolutional Neural Network Technique (3D-CNN). Results show that the proposed Opt_att-GANC achieves an F1-score of 67.08%, 93.74% accuracy, 92% precision, 92.1% recall, and 93.74% recall. The prospective study aims to enhance the precision degree with reduced duration by incorporating an ensemble neural network paradigm for feature extraction. Show more

Keywords: Lung cancer, fuzzy fusion, feature extraction, classification, neural networks, Adversarial network, PET

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233491

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2023

Authors: Sharma, Shamneesh | Mishra, Nidhi

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The expeditious advancement and widespread implementation of intelligent urban infrastructure have yielded manifold advantages, albeit concurrently engendering novel security predicaments. Examining current patterns in the security of smart cities is paramount in comprehending nascent risks and formulating efficacious preventative measures. The present study suggests the utilization of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) as a means to scrutinize and reveal implicit semantic associations within a collection of textual materials pertaining to the security of smart cities. Through the process of gathering and pre-processing pertinent textual data, constructing a matrix that represents the frequency of terms within documents, and utilizing techniques that reduce …the number of dimensions, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has the ability to uncover concealed patterns and associations among concepts related to security. This study proposes five recommendations for future research that employ a topic modeling technique to investigate the often-explored subjects related to smart city security. This discovery provides additional evidence in favor of the proposition that a robust blockchain-driven framework is vital for the advancement of smart cities. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) offers important insights into the dynamic landscape of smart city security by employing several techniques such as pattern recognition, document or phrase clustering, and result visualization. Through the examination of patterns and developments, individuals in positions of political authority, urban planning, and security knowledge possess the ability to uphold their proficiency, render judicious choices substantiated by empirical data, and establish proactive strategies aimed at preserving the security, privacy, and sustainability of intelligent urban environments. Show more

Keywords: Smart cities, security in smart cities, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), trends in smart cities, natural language processing

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235210

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-18, 2023

Authors: He, Jialin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: With the rapid development of information technology, software products are playing an increasingly important role in people’s production and life, and have penetrated into many industries. Software quality is the degree to which the software meets the specified requirements, and is an important indicator to evaluate the quality of the products used. At present, the scale of software is increasing, and the complexity is increasing. It is an urgent problem to reasonably grasp and ensure the product quality. The measurement and evaluation of Software quality characteristics is an effective means to improve Software quality. Faced with the complex system of …software, there are many factors that affect product quality. Current research mainly measures software product quality from a qualitative perspective. The computer software quality evaluation is a classical multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM). Type-2 Neutrosophic Numbers (T2NNs) is a popular set in the field of MAGDM and many scholars have expanded the traditional MAGDM to this T2NNs in recent years. In this paper, two new similarity measures based on sine function for T2NN is proposed under T2NNs. These two new methods are built for MAGDM based on the sine similarity measures for T2NN (SST) and sine similarity weighted measures for T2NN (SSWT). At the end of this paper, Finally, a practical case study for computer software quality evaluation is constructed to validate the proposed method and some comparative studies are constructed to verify the applicability. Thus, the main research contribution of this work is constructed: (1) two new similarity measures based on sine function for T2NN is proposed under T2NNs; (2) These two new methods are built for MAGDM based on the sine similarity measures for T2NN (SST) and sine similarity weighted measures for T2NN (SSWT); (3) an example for computer software quality evaluation is employed to verify the constructed techniques and several decision comparative analysis are employed to verify the constructed techniques. Show more

Keywords: Multi-attribute decision making (MAGDM), Type-2 neutrosophic numbers (T2NNs), similarity measure, sine function, computer software quality evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233407

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023

Authors: Gao, Yuchen | Yang, Qing | Meng, Huijuan | Gao, Dexin

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Flame and smoke detection is a critical issue that has been widely used in various unmanned security monitoring scenarios. However, existing flame smoke detection methods suffer from low accuracy and slow speed, and these problems reduce the efficiency of real-time detection. To solve the above problems, we propose an improved YOLOv7(You Only Look Once) algorithm for flame smoke mobile detection. The algorithm uses the Kmeans algorithm to cluster the prior frames in the dataset and uses a lightweight CNeB(ConvNext Block) module to replace part of the traditional ELAN module to accelerate the detection speed while ensuring high accuracy. In addition, …we propose an improved CIoU loss function to further enhance the detection effect. The experimental results show that, compared with the original algorithm, our algorithm improves the accuracy by 4.5% and the speed by 39.87%. This indicates that our algorithm meets the real-time monitoring requirements and can be practically applied to field detection on mobile edge computing devices. Show more

Keywords: YOLO, fire detect, smoke detect, NVIDIA Jetson

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232650

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-11, 2023

Authors: Fu, Liping

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Today, information technology has penetrated into various fields of universities, and the development of information technology in teaching, scientific research, management, and services has become a catalyst for promoting changes in universities. In terms of teaching informatization, the Internet provides a powerful tool for knowledge dissemination and a huge platform for learning and communication between university teachers and students. Knowledge sharing has become easier, and the era of mutual interaction between teachers and students has arrived. University teachers need to quickly face this challenge, adapt to the new teaching and learning environment, improve their own literacy, enhance their information-based teaching …ability, change their teaching behavior, and thereby improve the quality of university education and meet the needs of society for talent cultivation. The informationization teaching ability evaluation of university teachers is a classical MAGDM problems. Recently, the Exponential TODIM(ExpTODIM) and (grey relational analysis) GRA method has been used to cope with MAGDM issues. The interval neutrosophic sets (INSs) are used as a tool for characterizing uncertain information during the informationization teaching ability evaluation of university teachers. In this manuscript, the interval neutrosophic number Exponential TODIM-GRA (INN-ExpTODIM-GRA) method is built to solve the MAGDM under INSs. In the end, a numerical case study for informationization teaching ability evaluation of university teachers is given to validate the proposed method. Show more

Keywords: Multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), interval neutrosophic sets (INSs), ExpTODIM, GRA, informationization teaching ability evaluation

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233192

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Yan, Li

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: To improve the effect of immersive animation design, this paper combines digital media technology (DT) to establish an immersive animation design system and analyzes the media digital signal data processing algorithm. According to the advantages and disadvantages of the FHT algorithm and probabilistic algorithm, this paper proposes the FHT-SLM algorithm and the FHT-IPTS algorithm. Moreover, this paper analyzes the basic principle of TPWC transform and M-TPWC and the CO-OFDM system of cascaded FHT algorithm and M-TPWC algorithm. Finally, this paper simulates the CO-OFDM simulation system built by Matlab2018.a and Optisystem. Through the experimental analysis results, the reliability of the algorithm …and the system in this paper is verified, and the design effect of immersive animation is effectively improved. Show more

Keywords: DT, immersion, animation design, influence

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-235793

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-10, 2023

Authors: Monteiro, Ana Shirley | Santiago, Regivan | Bedregal, Benjamín | Palmeira, Eduardo | Araújo, Juscelino

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Saminger-Platz, Klement, and Mesiar (2008) extended t -norms from a complete sublattice to its respective lattice using the conventional definition of sublattice. In contrast, Palmeira and Bedregal (2012) introduced a more inclusive sublattice definition, via retractions. They expanded various important mathematical operators, including t -norms, t -conorms, fuzzy negations, and automorphisms. They also introduced De Morgan triples (semi-triples) for these operators and provided their extensions in their groundbreaking work. In this paper, we propose a method of extending quasi-overlap functions and quasi-grouping functions defined on bounded sublattices (in a broad sense) to a bounded superlattice. To achieve that, we use …the technique proposed by Palmeira and Bedregal. We also define: quasi-overlap (resp . quasi-grouping) functions generated from quasi-grouping (resp . quasi-overlap) functions and frontier fuzzy negations, De Morgan (semi)triples for the classes of quasi-overlap functions, quasi-grouping functions and fuzzy negations, as well as its respective extensions. Finally we study properties of all extensions defined. Show more

Keywords: Retractions, extensions, quasi-overlap, quasi-grouping, bounded lattices

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232805

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2023

Authors: Geetha, M.P. | Renuka, D. Karthika

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: A recommendation system serves as a distributed information filter, predicting customer preferences in reviews, ratings, and comments. Analysing customer behaviour aids in understanding needs and predicting intentions. E-commerce tracks product usage and sentiment to provide a personalized network based on consumer preference modelling. The challenge lies in optimizing item selection for suitable consumers to enhance performance. To address this, an imperative is the item recommendation approach for modelling future consumer behaviour. However, traditional machine learning methods often overlook dynamic product recommendations due to evolving user interests and changes in preferences reflected in customer ratings, causing cold-start issues. To overcome these …challenges, a comprehensive deep learning approach is introduced. This approach incorporates a deep neural network for consumer preference prediction, utilizing a multi-task learning paradigm to accommodate variations in consumer ratings. The research contribution lies in applying this network to predict consumer preference scores based on latent multimodal information and item characteristics. Initially, the architecture manages changing consumer aspects and preferences by extracting features and latent factors from customer review rating data. These latent factors include customer demographic information and other concealed features that signify preferences based on experiences and behaviours. Extracted latent features are processed using a sentiment analysis model to generate embedding latent features. A finely-tuned deep neural network with hyper-parameter adjustments serves as a prediction network, forming a customer performance-oriented recommendation system. It processes embedded latent features along with associated sentiments to achieve high prediction accuracy, reliability, and latency. The deep learning architecture, enriched with consumer-specific discriminative information, generates an objective function for item recommendations with minimal error, significantly enhancing predictive performance. Empirical experiments on Amazon review datasets validate the proposed model’s performance, showcasing its enhanced effectiveness and scalability in handling substantial data volumes. Show more

Keywords: Product recommendation, multitask learning, consumer buying behaviour analysis, user preference modelling

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-231116

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-17, 2023

Authors: Li, Jing | Jia, Bin | Fan, Jiulun | Yu, Haiyan | Hu, Yifan | Zhao, Feng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: The relative entropy fuzzy c-means (REFCM) clustering algorithm improves the robustness of the fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm against noise. However, its increased complexity results in slower convergence. To address this issue, we have proposed a suppressed REFCM (SREFCM) algorithm, in which a constant suppression rate, α, is selected. However, in cases where external factors, such as changes in the data structure, are present, relying on a fixed α value may result in a decline in algorithm performance, which is clearly unsuitable. Therefore, the adaptive selection of parameters is a critical step. Based on the data structure itself, this paper proposes …an algorithm for adaptive parameter selection utilizing partition entropy coefficient and alternating modified partition coefficient, and compares it to six parameter selection algorithms based on generalized rules: θ ′ type, ρ type, β type, τ type, σ type and ξ type. Empirical findings indicate that adapting parameters can enhance the partitioning capability of the algorithm while ensuring a rapid convergence rate. Show more

Keywords: Suppressed relative entropy fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm, suppression rate, partition entropy coefficient, alternating modified partition coefficient, adaptive parameter selection

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232999

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-16, 2023