Fuzzy Sets and Systems - IFSA 2003: 10th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 - July 2, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2715)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, IFSA 2003, held in June/July 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey. The 84 papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected form 318 submissions. The papers address all current issues in the area and present the state of the art in fuzzy sets, fuzzy systems, and fuzzy logic and their applications in a broad variety of fields. The papers are divided in four parts on mathematical issues, methodological issues, application areas, and cross-disciplinary issues. On The Transitivity Of Fuzzy Indifference Relations / Susana Díaz, Bernard De Baets And Susana Montes -- About Z[subscript F], The Set Of Fuzzy Relative Integers, And The Definition Of Fuzzy Bags On Z[subscript F] / Patrick Bosc And Daniel Rocacher -- The Difference Between 2 Multidimensional Fuzzy Bags: A New Perspective On Comparing Successful And Unsuccessful User's Web Behavior / George Meghabghab -- A Discussion Of Indices For The Evaluation Of Fuzzy Associations In Relational Databases / Didier Dubois, Henri Prade And Thomas Sudkamp -- On A Characterization Of Fuzzy Bags / Miguel Delgado, María J. Martín-bautiste, Daniel Sánchez And María A. Vila. A New Proposal Of Aggregation Functions: The Linguistic Summary / Ignacio Blanco, Daniel Sánchez, José M. Serrano And María A. Vila -- Fuzzy Quantifiers, Multiple Variable Binding And Branching Quantification / Ingo Glöckner -- Modeling The Concept Of Fuzzy Majority Opinion / Gabriella Pasi And Ronald R. Yager -- Modelling Fuzzy Quantified Statements Under A Voting Model Interpretation Of Fuzzy Sets / Félix Díaz-hermida, Alberto Bugarín, Purificación Cariñena, Manuel Mucientes, David E. Losada And Senén Barro -- Arithmetic Of Fuzzy Quantities Based On Vague Arithmetic Operations / Mustafa Demirci -- Level-sets As Decomposition Of The Topological Space Speca / Paavo Kukkurainen. Axiomatization Of Any Residuated Fuzzy Logic Defined By A Continuous T-norm / Francesc Esteva, Lluis Godo And Franco Montagna -- Extension Of Lukasiewicz Logic By Product Connective / Rostislav Horčík And Petr Cintula -- Formulas Of Lukasiewicz's Logic Represented By Hyperplanes / Antonio Di Nola And Ada Lettieri -- Fuzzifying The Thoughts Of Animals / Iztok Lebar Bajec, Nikolaj Zimic And Miha Mraz -- Approximating Fuzzy Control Strategies Via Cri / Siegfried Gottwald, Vilem Norák And Irina Perfilieva -- Inequalities In Fuzzy Probability Calculus / Saskia Janssens, Bernard De Baets And Hans De Meyer -- Fuzziness And Uncertainty Within The Framework Of Context Model / Van-nam Huynh, Mina Ryoke, Yoshiteru Nakamori And Tu Bao Ho. Uncertainty In Noise Mapping: Comparing A Probabilistic And A Fuzzy Set Approach / Tom De Muer And Dick Botteldooren -- Trapezoidal Approximations Of Fuzzy Numbers / Przemyshaw Grzegorzewski And Edyta Mrówka -- A Discrete-time Portfolio Selection With Uncertainty Of Stock Prices / Yuji Yoshida, Masami Yasuda, Jun-ichi Nakagami And Masami Kurano -- A Fuzzy Approach To Stochastic Dominance Of Random Variables / Bart De Schuymer, Hans De Meyer And Bernard De Baets -- Extracting Strict Orders From Fuzzy Preference Relations / Koen Maes And Bernard De Baets -- T-ferrers Relations Versus T-biorders / Susana Díaz, Bernard De Baets And Susana Montes. Sugeno Integrals For The Modelling Of Noise Annoyance Aggregation / Andy Verkeyn, Dick Botteldooren, Bernard De Baets And Guy De Tré -- On Separability Of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets / Krassimir T. Atanassov, Janusz Kacprzyk, Eulalia Szmidt And Ljudmila P. Todorova -- Calculating Limit Decisions In Factoring Using A Fuzzy Decision Model Based On Interactions Between Goals / Rudolf Felix -- Fuzzy Models Of Rainfall-discharge Dynamics / Hilde Vernieuwe, Olga Georgieva, Bernard De Baets, Valentijn R.n. Pauwels And Niko E.c. Verhoest -- A Rule-based Method To Aggregate Criteria With Different Relevance / Gerardo Canfora And Luigi Troiano. Imprecise Modelling Using Gradual Rules And Its Application To The Classification Of Time Series / Sylvie Galichet, Didier Dubois And Henri Prade -- A Semi-supervised Clustering Algorithm For Data Exploration / Abdelhamid Bouchachia And Witold Pedrycz -- A Comparative Study Of Classifiers On A Real Data Set / Sofia Visa And Anca Ralescu -- A Note On Quality Measures For Fuzzy Association Rules / Didier Dubois, Eyke Hullermeier And Henri Prade -- Differentiated Treatment Of Missing Values In Fuzzy Clustering / Heiko Timm, Christian Döring And Rudolf Kruse -- Mining Multi-level Diagnostic Process Rules From Clinical Databases Using Rough Sets And Medical Diagnostic Model / Shusaku Tsumoto. Lattice Fuzzy Signal Operators And Generalized Image Gradients / Petros Maragos, Vassilis Tzouvaras And Giorgos Stamou -- Non-uniform Coders Design For Motion Compression Method By Fuzzy Relational Equations / Hajime Nobuhara And Kaoru Hirota -- A Method For Coding/decoding Images By Using Fuzzy Relation Equations / Ferdinando Di Martino, Vincenzo Loia And Salvatore Sessa -- Embedded Fuzzy Control System In An Open Computerized Numerical Control: A Technology Transfer Case-study / Rodolfo E. Haber, José R. Alique, Angel Alique, Ramón Uribe-etxebarria And Javier Hernández -- Activation Of Trapezoidal Fuzzy Subsets With Different Inference Methods / Anis Sakly And Mohamed Benrejeb. Fuzzy Adaptive Sliding Mode Control For A Class Of Uncertain Nonlinear Mimo Systems With Application To A 2dof Twin Propeller / Aria Alasti, Hamid Bolandhemat And Navid Dadkhuh Tehrani -- Improvement Of Second Order Sliding-mode Controller Applied To Position Control Of Induction Motors Using Fuzzy Logic / Mahdi Jalili-kharaajoo And Hassan Ebrahimirad -- Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Application Of Fuzzy Clustering For Designing A Tsk-based Fuzzy Energy Flow Management Unit / Lucio Ippolito And Pierluigi Siano -- A Fuzzy Logic Vision And Control System Embedded With Human Knowledge For Autonomous Vehicle Navigation / Charles E. Kinney And Dean B. Edwards. Fuzzy Logic Based Dynamic Localization And Map Updating For Mobile Robots / Mohammad Molhim And Kudret Demirli -- An Overview On Soft Computing In Behavior Based Robotics / Frank Hoffmann -- Asymmetric Redundancy Of Tuples In Fuzzy Relational Database / Rolly Intan And Masao Mukaidono -- Fuzzy Clustering In Classification Using Weighted Features / Lourenço P.c. Bandeira, João M.c. Sousa And Uzay Kaymak -- Data And Clustor Weighting In Target Selection Based On Fuzzy Clustering / Uzay Kaymak -- On-line Design Of Takagi-sugeno Models / Plamen Angelov And Dimitar Filev -- Gradient Projection Method And Equality Index In Recurrent Neural Fuzzy Network / Rosangela Ballini And Fernando Gomide. Experimental Analysis Of Sensory Measurement Imperfection Impact For A Cheese Ripening Fuzzy Model / Irina Ioannou, Nathalie Perrot, Gilles Mauris And Gilles Trystram -- Generation Of Fuzzy Membership Function Using Information Theory Measures And Genetic Algorithm / Masoud Makrehchi, Otman Basir And Mohamed Kamel -- Analyzing The Performance Of A Multiobjective Ga-p Algorithm For Learning Fuzzy Queries In A Machine Learning Environment / Oscar Cordón, Enrique Herrera-viedma, María Luque, Félix De Moya And Carmen Zarco -- Commutativity As Prior Knowledge In Fuzzy Modeling / Pablo Carmona, Juan L. Castro And José M. Zurita. Evolutionary Optimization Of Fuzzy Models With Asymmetric Rbf Membership Functions Using Simplified Fitness Sharing / Min-soeng Kim, Chang-hyun Kim And Ju-jang Lee -- Fuzzy Multi-objective Optimization Approach For Rod Shape Design In Long Product Rolling / Victor Oduguwa, Rajkumar Roy And Didier Farrugia -- A Fuzzy-based Meta-model For Reasoning About Number Of Software Defects / Marek Reformat -- A Dual Representation Of Uncertain Dynamic Spatial Information / Gloria Bordogna, Paola Carrara, Sergio Chiesa And Stefano Spaccapietra -- Enabling Fuzzy Object Comparison In Modern Programming Platforms Through Reflection / Fernando Berzal, Juan-carlos Cubero, Nicolás Marín And Olga Pons. An Xml-based Approach To Processing Imprecise Requirements / Jonathan Lee, Yong-yi Fanjiang, Tzung-jie Chen And Ying-yan Lin -- Inducing Fuzzy Concepts Through Extended Version Space Learning / Eyke Hüllermeier -- A Symbolic Approximate Reasoning Under Fuzziness / Mazen El-sayed And Daniel Pacholczyk -- Making Fuzzy Absolute And Fuzzy Relative Orders Of Magnitude Consistent / Didier Dubois, Allel Hadjali And Henri Prade -- Learning First Order Fuzzy Logic Rules / Henri Prade, Gilles Richard And Mathieu Serrurier -- An Interactive Fuzzy Satisfying Method For Multiobjective Nonlinear Integer Programming Problems Through Genetic Algorithms / Masatoshi Sakawa And Kosuke Kato. Taner Bilgiç, Bernard De Baets, Okyay Kaynak (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. A Perspective on the Philosophical Grounding of Fuzzy Theories....Pages 1-15 Binary Operations on Fuzzy Sets: Recent Advances....Pages 16-29 Multiple Criteria Choice, Ranking, and Sorting in the Presence of Ordinal Data and Interactive Points of View....Pages 30-38 Dual Interval Model and Its Application to Decision Making....Pages 39-51 Automatic Taxonomy Generation: Issues and Possibilities....Pages 52-63 A Fuzziness Measure of Rough Sets....Pages 64-70 Fuzzy Closure Operators Induced by Similarity....Pages 71-78 A New Approach to Teaching Fuzzy Logic System Design....Pages 79-86 On the Transitivity of Fuzzy Indifference Relations....Pages 87-94 About Z f , the Set of Fuzzy Relative Integers, and the Definition of Fuzzy Bags on Z f ....Pages 95-102 The Difference Between 2 Multidimensional Fuzzy Bags: A New Perspective on Comparing Successful and Unsuccessful User’s Web Behavior....Pages 103-110 A Discussion of Indices for the Evaluation of Fuzzy Associations in Relational Databases....Pages 111-118 On a Characterization of Fuzzy Bags....Pages 119-126 A New Proposal of Aggregation Functions: The Linguistic Summary....Pages 127-134 Fuzzy Quantifiers, Multiple Variable Binding, and Branching Quantification....Pages 135-142 Modeling the Concept of Fuzzy Majority Opinion....Pages 143-150 Modelling Fuzzy Quantified Statements under a Voting Model Interpretation of Fuzzy Sets....Pages 151-158 Arithmetic of Fuzzy Quantities Based on Vague Arithmetic Operations....Pages 159-166 Level-Sets as Decomposition of the Topological Space SpecA....Pages 167-171 Axiomatization of Any Residuated Fuzzy Logic Defined by a Continuous T-norm....Pages 172-179 Extension of Łukasiewicz Logic by Product Connective....Pages 180-188 Formulas of Łukasiewicz’s Logic Represented by Hyperplanes....Pages 189-194 Fuzzifying the Thoughts of Animats....Pages 195-202 Approximating Fuzzy Control Strategies via CRI....Pages 203-210 Inequalities in Fuzzy Probability Calculus....Pages 211-218 Fuzziness and Uncertainty within the Framework of Context Model....Pages 219-228 Uncertainty in Noise Mapping: Comparing a Probabilistic and a Fuzzy Set Approach....Pages 229-236 Trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers....Pages 237-244 A Discrete-Time Portfolio Selection with Uncertainty of Stock Prices....Pages 245-252 A Fuzzy Approach to Stochastic Dominance of Random Variables....Pages 253-260 Extracting Strict Orders from Fuzzy Preference Relations....Pages 261-268 T -Ferrers Relations versus T -biorders....Pages 269-276 Sugeno Integrals for the Modelling of Noise Annoyance Aggregation....Pages 277-284 On Separability of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets....Pages 285-292 Calculating Limit Decisions in Factoring Using a Fuzzy Decision Model Based on Interactions between Goals....Pages 293-302 Fuzzy Models of Rainfall-Discharge Dynamics....Pages 303-310 A Rule-Based Method to Aggregate Criteria with Different Relevance....Pages 311-318 Imprecise Modelling Using Gradual Rules and Its Application to the Classification of Time Series....Pages 319-327 A Semi-supervised Clustering Algorithm for Data Exploration....Pages 328-337 A Comparative Study of Classifiers on a Real Data Set....Pages 338-345 A Note on Quality Measures for Fuzzy Association Rules....Pages 346-353 Differentiated Treatment of Missing Values in Fuzzy Clustering....Pages 354-361 Mining Multi-level Diagnostic Process Rules from Clinical Databases Using Rough Sets and Medical Diagnostic Model....Pages 362-369 Rough Sets and Information Granulation....Pages 370-377 Indiscernibility-Based Clustering: Rough Clustering....Pages 378-386 Fuzzy Multiset Space and c-Means Clustering Using Kernels with Application to Information Retrieval....Pages 387-395 Using Similarity Measures for Histogram Comparison....Pages 396-403 A CHC Evolutionary Algorithm for 3D Image Registration....Pages 404-411 Color Image Enhancement Using the Support Fuzzification....Pages 412-419 Lattice Fuzzy Signal Operators and Generalized Image Gradients....Pages 420-427 Non-uniform Coders Design for Motion Compression Method by Fuzzy Relational Equations....Pages 428-435 A Method for Coding/Decoding Images by Using Fuzzy Relation Equations....Pages 436-441 Embedded Fuzzy Control System in an Open Computerized Numerical Control: A Technology Transfer Case-Study....Pages 442-449 Activation of Trapezoidal Fuzzy Subsets with Different Inference Methods....Pages 450-457 Design and Simulation of a Fuzzy Substrate Feeding Controller for an Industrial Scale Fed-Batch Baker Yeast Fermentor....Pages 458-465 Fuzzy Supervisor for Combining Sliding Mode Control and H∞ Control....Pages 466-473 Intelligent PID Control by Immune Algorithms Based Fuzzy Rule Auto-Tuning....Pages 474-482 Implementation and Applications of a Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Method....Pages 483-491 System Modelling Using Fuzzy Numbers....Pages 492-499 Fuzzy Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear MIMO Systems with Application to a 2DOF Twin Propeller....Pages 500-507 Improvement of Second Order Sliding-Mode Controller Applied to Position Control of Induction Motors Using Fuzzy Logic....Pages 508-515 Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Application of Fuzzy Clustering for Designing a TSK-based Fuzzy Energy Flow Management Unit....Pages 516-525 A Fuzzy Logic Vision and Control System Embedded with Human Knowledge for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation....Pages 526-534 Fuzzy Logic Based Dynamic Localization and Map Updating for Mobile Robots....Pages 535-543 An Overview on Soft Computing in Behavior Based Robotics....Pages 544-551 Asymmetric Redundancy of Tuples in Fuzzy Relational Database....Pages 552-559 Fuzzy Clustering in Classification Using Weighted Features....Pages 560-567 Data and Cluster Weighting in Target Selection Based on Fuzzy Clustering....Pages 568-575 On-line Design of Takagi-Sugeno Models....Pages 576-584 Gradient Projection Method and Equality Index in Recurrent Neural Fuzzy Network....Pages 585-594 Experimental Analysis of Sensory Measurement Imperfection Impact for a Cheese Ripening Fuzzy Model....Pages 595-602 Generation of Fuzzy Membership Function Using Information Theory Measures and Genetic Algorithm....Pages 603-610 Analyzing the Performance of a Multiobjective GA-P Algorithm for Learning Fuzzy Queries in a Machine Learning Environment....Pages 611-619 Commutativity as Prior Knowledge in Fuzzy Modeling....Pages 620-627 Evolutionary Optimization of Fuzzy Models with Asymmetric RBF Membership Functions Using Simplified Fitness Sharing....Pages 628-635 Fuzzy Multi-objective Optimisation Approach for Rod Shape Design in Long Product Rolling....Pages 636-643 A Fuzzy-Based Meta-model for Reasoning about the Number of Software Defects....Pages 644-651 A Dual Representation of Uncertain Dynamic Spatial Information....Pages 652-659 Enabling Fuzzy Object Comparison in Modern Programming Platforms through Reflection....Pages 660-667 An XML-based Approach to Processing Imprecise Requirements....Pages 668-676 Inducing Fuzzy Concepts through Extended Version Space Learning....Pages 677-684 A Symbolic Approximate Reasoning under Fuzziness....Pages 685-693 Making Fuzzy Absolute and Fuzzy Relative Orders of Magnitude Consistent....Pages 694-701 Learning First Order Fuzzy Logic Rules....Pages 702-709 An Interactive Fuzzy Satisfying Method for Multiobjective Nonlinear Integer Programming Problems through Genetic Algorithms....Pages 710-717 A Global Optimization Method for Solving Fuzzy Relation Equations....Pages 718-724 A Study on Fuzzy Random Linear Programming Problems Based on Possibility and Necessity Measures....Pages 725-732