This book is devoted to reporting innovative and significant progress in fuzzy system engineering. Given the maturation of fuzzy logic, this book is dedicated to exploring the recent breakthroughs in fuzziness and soft computing in favour of intelligent system engineering. This monograph presents novel developments of the fuzzy theory as well as interesting applications of the fuzzy logic explo…
Crisp matrix and bi-matrix games: some basic results -- Fuzzy sets -- Fuzzy numbers and fuzzy arithmetic -- Linear and quadratic programming under fuzzy environment -- Duality in linear and quadratic programming under fuzzy environment -- Matrix games with fuzzy goals -- Matrix games with fuzzy pay-offs -- More on matrix games with fuzzy pay-offs -- Fuzzy Bi-Matrix Games -- Modality and other a…
The Financial Activity of Businesses -- Basic Elements for the Treatment of Uncertainty -- Accountancy and Decision Techniques -- The Estimate of Economic-Financial Values by Means of the Budget -- Long Term Financial Solvency -- Short Term Financial Solvency -- Financial Analysis by Means of Ratios -- Risk Analysis -- Inference Chains in Financial Analysis -- The Effect of Fixed Costs on Profi…
Introduction to Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic -- Algebras with Fuzzy Equalities -- Fuzzy Equational Logic -- Fuzzy Horn Logic.The book deals with similarity relations defined on a set with functions. The functions are required to map similar elements to similar ones. The book presents basic mathematical properties of structures consisting of similarity-preserving functions and logics for reasoning…
Mathematical Aspects -- Theory and Applications of Fractal Tops -- Splines, Fractal Functions, and Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin Spaces -- Hölderian random functions -- Fractal Stationary Density in Coupled Maps -- Physics -- A Network of Fractal Force Chains and Their Effect in Granular Materials under Compression -- Percolation and permeability of three dimensional fracture networks with a powe…
Section 1 – Rule Discovery. Population Dynamics of Genetic Algorithms. Approximating Value Functions in Classifier Systems. Two Simple Learning Classifier Systems. Computational Complexity of the XCS Classifier System. An Analysis of Continuous-Valued Representations for Learning Classifier Systems -- Section 2 – Credit Assignment. Reinforcement Learning: a Brief Overview. A Mathematical Fr…
From the contents: Part I Foundations of Data Mining; Knowledge Discovery as Translation; Mathematical Foundation of Association Rules – Mining Associations by Solving Integral Linear Inequalities; Comparative Study of Sequential Pattern Mining Models; Designing Robust Regression Models; A Probabilistic Logic-based Framework for Characterizing Knowledge Discovery in Databases; A Careful Look …
The Mathematics of Learning -- Logical Regression Analysis: From Mathematical Formulas to Linguistic Rules -- A Feature/Attribute Theory for Association Mining and Constructing the Complete Feature Set -- A New Theoretical Framework for K-means-type Clustering -- Clustering via Decision Tree Construction -- Incremental Mining on Association Rules -- Mining Association Rules from Tabular Data Gu…
Fuzzy Sets -- The Operation of Fuzzy Set -- Fuzzy Relation and Composition -- Fuzzy Graph and Relation -- Fuzzy Number -- Fuzzy Function -- Probabilisy and Uncertainty -- Fuzzy Logic -- Fuzzy Inference -- Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Expert Systems -- Fusion of Fuzzy System and Neural Networks -- Fusion of Fuzzy Systems and Genetic Algorithms.This basic textbook gives an easily accessible introducti…
Evolvable Robots -- Learning for Cooperative Transportation by Autonomous Humanoid Robots -- Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot -- Evolution of Khepera Robotic Controllers with Hierarchical Genetic Programming Techniques -- Evolving Controllers for Miniature Robots -- Evolvable Hardware Synthesis -- Evolutionary Synthesis of Synchronous …