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The purpose of the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology is to foster advancements of knowledge and help disseminate results concerning recent applications and case studies in the areas of fuzzy logic, intelligent systems, and web-based applications among working professionals and professionals in education and research, covering a broad cross-section of technical disciplines.
The journal will publish original articles on current and potential applications, case studies, and education in intelligent systems, fuzzy systems, and web-based systems for engineering and other technical fields in science and technology. The journal focuses on the disciplines of computer science, electrical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, engineering management, bioengineering, and biomedical engineering. The scope of the journal also includes developing technologies in mathematics, operations research, technology management, the hard and soft sciences, and technical, social and environmental issues.
Authors: Li, Jia | Xue, Shuaihao | Li, Minghui | Shi, Xiaoqiu
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: Combining the harmony search algorithm (HS) with the local search algorithm (LS) can prevent the HS from falling into a local optimum. However, how LS affects the performance of HS has not yet been studied systematically. Therefore, in this paper, it is first proposed to combine four frequently used LS with HS to obtain several search algorithms (HSLSs). Then, by taking the flexible job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP) as an example and considering decoding times, study how the parameters of HSLSs affect their performance, where the performance is evaluated by the difference rate based on the decoding times. The simulation results …mainly show that (I) as the harmony memory size (HMS) gradually increases, the performance of HSLSs first increases rapidly and then tends to remain unchanged, and HMS is not the larger the better; (II) as harmony memory considering rate increases, the performance continues to improve, while the performance of pitch adjusting rate on HSLSs goes to the opposite; Finally, more benchmark instances are also used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms. The results of this paper have a certain guiding significance on how to choose LS and other parameters to improve HS for solving FJSP. Show more
Keywords: Algorithm analysis, local search, harmony search, flexible job-shop scheduling problem
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-239142
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2024
Authors: Ma, Dongdong | He, Xiaohai | Wang, Meiling | Fang, Qingmao | Zhu, Han | Hu, Ping
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: Knowledge graph question answering aims to answer natural language questions using structured knowledge graph data. The key to achieving this is having a correct semantic understanding of the question phrases. Query graph generation is an important step for knowledge graph question answering systems to tackle complex questions. Unlike simple single-hop questions, complex questions often require reasoning between multiple triples to get the right answer due to multiple entities, relationships and constraints, making it difficult to generate correct query graphs. In previous studies, researchers have primarily focused on improving the extraction and representation of question features, neglecting the prior structural information …implicated in the question itself. In this paper, we propose a question structure classifier to classify the question structure, and alleviate the noise interference in query graph through classification results. In the classifier, we strengthen the information about the question structure through the attention mechanism, while weakening the irrelevant information. Moreover, a query graph sorting module based on feature cross-coding is proposed to sort candidate paths in the query graph using fine-grained feature interaction between words. Extensive experiments are conducted on two public datasets (MetaQA and WebQuestionsSP) and the experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other baselines. Show more
Keywords: Knowledge graph question answering, relation embedding, attention enhancement, feature cross-encoding
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-233650
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2024
Authors: Yue, Lizhu | Lv, Yue
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: The Vlsekriterijumska Optimizacija I Komprosmisno Resenie (VIKOR) method to some extent modifies the utility function to a value function that can consider different risk preferences. However, the weight and risk attitude parameters involved in the model are difficult to determine, which limits its application. To overcome this problem, a Poset-VIKOR model is proposed. A partial order set is a non-parametric decision-making method. Through the combination of partial order set and VIKOR model, the parameters can be “eliminated”, and a robust method that can run the model is obtained. This method uses the Hasse diagram to express the evaluation results, which …can not only directly display the hierarchical and clustering information, but also show the robustness characteristics of the alternative comparison. Show more
Keywords: VIKOR method, poset, weight, multiple attribute decision making
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-230680
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-17, 2024
Authors: Shao, Dangguo | Huang, Chunsheng | Liu, Cuiyin | Ma, Lei | Yi, Sanli
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: The automatic segmentation of diabetic retinopathy (DR) holds significant importance for assisting physicians in diagnosis and treatment. Given the complexity, high inter-class similarity, and uncertainty of DR, it is crucial to integrate multiscale information between lesions and establish global correlations among them. To address these issues, a novel HRU-TNet (Hybrid Residual U-Transformer Network) algorithm for retinal lesion segmentation is proposed. In this framework, the network is augmented with lightweight self-attention residual U-modules (LSA-RSU) to capture high-frequency details of the lesions and global contextual information. The skip connections are then enhanced through interactive residual transformer fusion modules (IRTF) and channel-cross attention …(CCA), promoting dependencies among features at different scales and filtering out interfering information to guide feature fusion and eliminate ambiguity. Additionally, a novel retinal image enhancement technique is devised, employing local wavelet transformations to capture detailed components of the retinal images, thereby enhancing the representational capacity of the segmentation network. Data augmentation is also performed to ensure network adaptability to small datasets. Comprehensive experiments conducted on the publicly available IDRID and e_ophtha datasets yielded average AUC_PR values of 0.709 and 0.451, respectively. The proposed approach demonstrated superior generalization on the DDR dataset compared to other methods mentioned in the literature. These results demonstrate that our proposed method is better suited for small retinal datasets, exhibiting improved segmentation accuracy and generalization compared to existing approaches. Show more
Keywords: Lesion segmentation, fundus image enhancement, transformer, cross attention fusion, light self-attention residual
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-240788
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2024
Authors: He, Xiaorong | Fang, Anran | Yu, Dejian
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: Electronic commerce (EC) has become the most critical business activity in the world. China has become the world’s largest market for EC. Over the past three decades, numerous researches have examined the current status of the development of monolingual EC research in specific scenarios. However, the paradigm shift in EC development through the analysis of the dynamic evolution of semantic information has not yet been examined, and the distinctions and connections between multilingual EC studies have not yet been established. This study analyzed 16,207 English and 17,850 Chinese EC-related articles from the Web of Science database and CNKI by combining …the BERTopic topic model and SBERT sentence embedding-based similarity computations. The results reveal the distributions of global and local topics in the English and Chinese EC literature, analyze the semantic intricacies of topic convergence and evolution across continuous time, as well as the distinctions and connections between English and Chinese topics. Finally, the evolutionary patterns and life cycle of three crucial English and Chinese topics are explored respectively, including their emergence, development, maturity, and decline. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive overview of EC studies from a topic perspective. Show more
Keywords: Electronic commerce, BERTopic, topic modeling, topic evolution, sentence embedding
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232825
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-22, 2024
Authors: Kazancı, O. | Hoskova-Mayerova, S. | Davvaz, B.
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: In recent years, the m-polar fuzziness structure has attracted the attention of researchers and has been commonly applied in algebraic structures. In this article, we present the notion of multi-polar fuzzy hyperideals of ordered semihyperrings, which is a generalization of the concept of bi-polar fuzzy hyperideals of ordered semihyperrings. We investigate some of their associated properties. Furthermore, we characterized regular ordered semihyperring in terms of multi-polar fuzzy quasi-ideals and multi-polar fuzzy bi-ideals.
Keywords: Semihyperring, ordered semihyperring, m-polar fuzzy semihyperring, m-polar fuzzy hyperideals
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-238654
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-09, 2024
Authors: Ameen, Zanyar A. | Mohammed, Ramadhan A. | Al-shami, Tareq M. | Asaad, Baravan A.
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: This paper introduces a new fuzzy structure named “fuzzy primal.” Then, it studies the essential properties and discusses their basic operations. By applying the q-neighborhood system in a primal fuzzy topological space and the Łukasiewicz disjunction, we establish a fuzzy operator (·) ⋄ on the family of all fuzzy sets, followed by its core characterizations. Next, we use (·) ⋄ to investigate a further fuzzy operator denoted by Cl ⋄ . To determine a new fuzzy topology from the existing one, the earlier fuzzy operators are explored. Such a new fuzzy topology is called primal fuzzy topology. Various properties of …primal fuzzy topologies are found. Among others, the structure of a fuzzy base that generates a primal fuzzy topology. Furthermore, the concept of compatibility between fuzzy primals and fuzzy topologies is introduced, and some equivalent conditions to that concept are examined. It is shown that if a fuzzy primal is compatible with a fuzzy topology, then the fuzzy base that produces the primal fuzzy topology is itself a fuzzy topology. Show more
Keywords: Fuzzy primal, fuzzy grill, fuzzy ideal, primal fuzzy topology, fuzzy ideal topology
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-238408
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-10, 2024
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: Background: Breast cancer diagnosis relies on accurate lesion segmentation in medical images. Automated computer-aided diagnosis reduces clinician workload and improves efficiency, but existing image segmentation methods face challenges in model performance and generalization. Objective: This study aims to develop a generative framework using a denoising diffusion model for efficient and accurate breast cancer lesion segmentation in medical images. Methods: We design a novel generative framework, PalScDiff, that leverages a denoising diffusion probabilistic model to reconstruct the label distribution for medical images, thereby enabling the sampling of diverse, plausible segmentation outcomes. Specifically, with the …condition of the corresponding image, PalScDiff learns to estimate the masses region probability through denoising step by step. Furthermore, we design a Progressive Augmentation Learning strategy to incrementally handle segmentation challenges of irregular and blurred tumors. Moreover, multi-round sampling is employed to achieve robust breast mass segmentation. Results: Our experimental results show that PalScDiff outperforms established models such as U-Net and transformer-based alternatives, achieving an accuracy of 95.15%, precision of 79.74%, Dice coefficient of 77.61%, and Intersection over Union (IOU) of 81.51% . Conclusion: The proposed model demonstrates promising capabilities for accurate and efficient computer-aided segmentation of breast cancer. Show more
Keywords: Diffusion model, consistent regularization, breast cancer, medical image segmentation, data augmentation
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-239703
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-15, 2024
Authors: Yang, Guang | Qi, Juntong | Wang, Mingming | Wu, Chong | Liu, Yansheng | Liu, Zhengjun | Ping, Yuan
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: Target encirclement is widely used in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs), which can effectively monitor and intercept external threats. However, the integration from target detection, localization to final tracking is difficult or costly. This article proposes a complete and inexpensive framework of the target encirclement for multiple quadrotors. The framework consists of three modules: object detection, target localization and formation tracking. Firstly, a one-stage object detector based on a convolutional neural network is used to achieve fast and accurate object detection. Then, combined with the position and attitude states of the quadrotor, a 3D target localization scheme to locate …the target position is proposed. Based on consensus theory, a time-varying formation tracking control protocol is proposed. Finally, a multiple quadrotor platform composed of one reconnaissance quadrotor and four hunter quadrotors is built with self-organizing network communication, which avoids the expensive cost of deploying object detection modules on each quadrotor platform. We deployed the framework on the multiple quadrotor platform and conducted static and dynamic localization and encirclement experiments with a minibus as the target. The result shows that the reconnaissance quadrotors can detect and accurately locate targets over 30 fps , and the average deviation of locating the target minibus could reach a minimum of 0.0712 m . The hunter quadrotors could track and encircle the dynamic moving target minibus in a time-varying formation. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed framework of the target encirclement for multiple quadrotors. Show more
Keywords: Multiple quadrotors, target encirclement, visual detection, target localization, time-varying formation tracking
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-238335
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-14, 2024
Authors: Ou, Qiqi | Zhang, Xiaohong | Wang, Jingqian
Article Type: Research Article
Abstract: Fuzzy rough sets (FRSs) play a significant role in the field of data analysis, and one of the common methods for constructing FRSs is the use of the fuzzy logic operators. To further extend FRSs theory to more diverse information backgrounds, this article proposes a covering variable precision fuzzy rough set model based on overlap functions and fuzzy β-neighbourhood operators (OCVPFRS). Some necessary properties of OCVPFRS have also been studied in this work. Furthermore, multi-label classification is a prevalent task in the realm of machine learning. Each object (sample or instance) in multi-label data is associated with various labels (classes), …and there are numerous features or attributes that need to be taken into account within the attribute space. To enhance various performance metrics in the multi-label classification task, attribute reduction is an essential pre-processing step. Therefore, according to overlap functions and fuzzy rough sets’ excellent work on applications: such as image processing and multi-criteria decision-making, we establish an attribute reduction method suitable for multi-label data based on OCVPFRS. Through a series of experiments and comparative analysis with existing multi-label attribute reduction methods, the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method have been verified. Show more
Keywords: Fuzzy rough sets, overlap functions, fuzzy β-neighbourhood operators, attribute reduction, multi-label classification
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-238245
Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. Pre-press, no. Pre-press, pp. 1-19, 2024
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