Theoretical Advances and Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing

This book comprises a selection of papers from IFSA 2007 on theoretical advances and applications of fuzzy logic and soft computing. These papers were selected from over 400 submissions and constitute an important contribution to the theory and applications of fuzzy logic and soft computing methodologies. Soft Computing c- sists of several computing paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and other techniques, which can be used to produce powerful intelligent systems for solving real-world problems. The papers of IFSA 2007 also make a c- tribution to this goal. This book is intended to be a major reference for scientists and engineers interested in applying new fuzzy logic and soft computing tools to achieve intelligent solution to complex problems. We consider that this book can also be used to get novel ideas for new lines of research, or to continue the lines of research proposed by the authors of the papers contained in the book. The book is divided in to sixteen main parts. Each part contains a set of papers on a common subject, so that the reader can find similar papers grouped together. Some of these parts are comprised from the papers of organized sessions of IFSA 2007 and we thank the session’s organizers for their incredible job on forming these sessions with invited and regular paper submissions.

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications.- An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Graph Method for Finding the Shortest Paths in Networks.- On Imprecision Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets & OLAP – The Case for KNOLAP.- The Application of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing in Flexible Quering.- Algorithm for Interpretation of Multi-valued Taxonomic Attributes in Similarity-Based Fuzzy Databases.- Flexible Location-Based Spatial Queries.- Complex Quantified Statements Evaluated Using Gradual Numbers.- Properties of Local Andness/Orness.- A New Approach for Boolean Query Processing in Text Information Retrieval.- Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms in the Automatic Learning of Boolean Queries: A Comparative Study.- Interactions Between Decision Goals Applied to the Calculation of Context Dependent Re-rankings of Results of Internet Search Engines.- Using Fuzzy Logic to Handle the Users’ Semantic Descriptions in a Music Retrieval System.- Philosophical and Human-Scientific Aspects of Soft Computing.- Between Empiricism and Rationalism: A Layer of Perception Modeling Fuzzy Sets as Intermediary in Philosophy of Science.- Ontological and Epistemological Grounding of Fuzzy Theory.- Application of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Business Planning Models.- Perceptions for Making Sense, Description Language for Meaning Articulation.- Search Engine and Information Processing and Retrieval.- FCBIR: A Fuzzy Matching Technique for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Computing with Words Using Fuzzy Logic:Possibilities for Application in Automatic Text Summarization.- Concept-Based Questionnaire System.- A Hybrid Model for Document Clustering Based on a Fuzzy Approach of Synonymy and Polysemy.- Morphic Computing.- Morphic Computing: Web and Agents.- Perception Based Data Mining and Decision Making.- Looking for Dependencies in Short Time Series Using Imprecise Statistical Data.- Perception Based Time Series Data Mining for Decision Making.- Data Mining for Fuzzy Relational Data Servers.- Computational Intelligence Models of the Distributed Technological Complexes.- Soft Computing in Medical Sciences.- Similarity and Distance–Their Paths from Crisp to Fuzzy Concepts and an Application in Medical Philosophy.- The Choquet and Sugeno Integrals as Measures of Total Effectiveness of Medicines.- Managing Uncertainty with Fuzzy-Automata and Control in an Intensive Care Environment.- Joint Model-Based and Data-Based Learning: The Fuzzy Logic Approach.- Process Monitoring Using Residuals and Fuzzy Classification with Learning Capabilities.- Fuzzy/Possibilistic Optimization.- Possibilistic Worst Case Distance and Applications to Circuit Sizing.- An Algorithm to Solve Two-Person Non-zero Sum Fuzzy Games.- One-Shot Decision with Possibilistic Information.- Portfolio Selection Problem Based on Possibility Theory Using the Scenario Model with Ambiguous Future Returns.- Optimization of Fuzzy Objective Functions in Fuzzy (Multicriteria) Linear Programs - A Critical Survey.- Algebraic Foundations of Soft Computing.- On Extension of LI-Ideal in Lattice Implication Algebra.- Congruence Relations Induced by Filters and LI-Ideals.- Weak Completeness of Resolution in a Linguistic Truth-Valued Propositional Logic.- Fuzzy Trees.- Decision-Based Questionnaire Systems.- Fuzzy Signature and Cognitive Modelling for Complex Decision Model.- Soft Computing in Petroleum Applications.- Estimating Monthly Production of Oil Wells.- IRESC: Reservoir Characterization.- A Fuzzy Approach to the Study of Human Reliability in the Petroleum Industry.- Evolutionary Computation for Valves Control Optimization in Intelligent Wells Under Uncertainties.- A Genetic Algorithm for the Pickup and Delivery Problem: An Application to the Helicopter Offshore Transportation.- Real Options and Genetic Algorithms to Approach of the Optimal Decision Rule for Oil Field Development Under Uncertainties.- Documenting Visual Quality Controls on the Evaluation of Petroleum Reservoir-Rocks Through Ontology-Based Image Annotation.- Event Ordering Reasoning Ontology Applied to Petrology and Geological Modelling.- Optimization to Manage Supply Chain Disruptions Using the NSGA-II.- Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing in Distributed Computing.- A Framework to Support Distributed Data Mining on Grid.- Adaptive Processing Scheme of Overflowed Buckets for Bucket Sort Algorithm.- A Novel Fractal Image Coding Based on Quadtree Partition of the Adaptive Threshold Value.- Towards the Application of Distributed Database in University MIS.- Fractal Interpolation Fitness Based on BOX Dimension’s Pretreatment.- A Statistical Spam Filtering Scheme Based on Grid Platform.- An Approach to Web Prefetching Agent Based on Web Ontology with Hidden Markov Model.- Fuzzy Logic Theory.- A Causal Model with UncertainTime-Series Effect Based on Evidence Theory.- Parametric Fuzzy Linear Systems.- Lattice Ordered Monoids and Left Continuous Uninorms and t-norms.- Discrete Fuzzy Numbers Defined on a Subset of Natural Numbers.- Collaborative Recommending Based on Core-Concept Lattice.- How to Construct Formal Systems for Fuzzy Logics.- A Logical Framework for Fuzzy Quantifiers Part I: Basic Properties.- Solving Planning Under Uncertainty: Quantitative and Qualitative Approach.- The Compositional Rule of Inference and Zadeh’s Extension Principle for Non-normal Fuzzy Sets.- Satisfiability in a Linguistic-Valued Logic and Its Quasi-horn Clause Inference Framework.- Fuzzy Logic Applications.- Fuzzy Flip-Flops Revisited.- Customized Query Response for an Improved Web Search.- An Effective Inductive Learning Structure to Extract Probabilistic Fuzzy Rule Base from Inconsistent Data Pattern.- Robust Stability Analysis of a Fuzzy Vehicle Lateral Control System Using Describing Function Method.- An Adaptive Location Service on the Basis of Fuzzy Logic for MANETs.- Self-tunable Fuzzy Inference System: A Comparative Study for a Drone.- A Kind of Embedded Temperature Controller Based on Self-turning PID for Texturing Machine.- Trajectory Tracking Using Fuzzy-Lyapunov Approach: Application to a Servo Trainer.- Neural Networks.- A New Method for Intelligent Knowledge Discovery.- New Method of Learning and Knowledge Management in Type-I Fuzzy Neural Networks.- Gear Fault Diagnosis in Time Domains by Using Bayesian Networks.- Improving a Fuzzy ANN Model Using Correlation Coefficients.- A Sliding Mode Control Using Fuzzy-Neural Hierarchical Multi-model Identifier.- A Method for Creating Ensemble Neural Networks Using a Sampling Data Approach.- Soft Computing.- Using Fuzzy Sets for Coarseness Representation in Texture Images.- Pattern Classification Model with T-Fuzzy Data.- Adjusting an Environment to Human Behaviors Based on Biopsy Information.- Sub-algebras of Finite Lattice Implication Algebra.- Semantics Properties of Compound Evaluating Syntagms.- Characteristic Morphisms and Models of Fuzzy Logic in a Category of Sets with Similarities.- Fixed Points and Solvability of Systems of Fuzzy Relation Equations.- Towards a Proof Theory for Basic Logic.- MV-Algebras with the Cantor–Bernstein Property.- On ?ukasiewicz Logic with Truth Constants.- EQ-Algebras in Progress.- A Fuzzy Approach for the Sequencing of Didactic Resources in Educational Adaptive Hypermedia Systems.