Fuzzy Sets and Systems - IFSA 2003 Book

	A Perspective on the Philosophical Grounding of Fuzzy Theories	1
	Binary Operations on Fuzzy Sets: Recent Advances	16
	Multiple Criteria Choice, Ranking, and Sorting in the Presence of Ordinal Data and Interactive Points of View	30
	Dual Interval Model and Its Application to Decision Making	39
	Automatic Taxonomy Generation: Issues and Possibilities	52
	A Fuzziness Measure of Rough Sets	64
	Fuzzy Closure Operators Induced by Similarity	71
	A New Approach to Teaching Fuzzy Logic System Design	79
	On the Transitivity of Fuzzy Indifference Relations	87
	About Z[subscript f], the Set of Fuzzy Relative Integers, and the Definition of Fuzzy Bags on Z[subscript f]	95
	The Difference Between 2 Multidimensional Fuzzy Bags: A New Perspective on Comparing Successful and Unsuccessful User's Web Behavior	103
	A Discussion of Indices for the Evaluation of Fuzzy Associations in Relational Databases	111
	On a Characterization of Fuzzy Bags	119
	A New Proposal of Aggregation Functions: The Linguistic Summary	127
	Fuzzy Quantifiers, Multiple Variable Binding and Branching Quantification	135
	Modeling the Concept of Fuzzy Majority Opinion	143
	Modelling Fuzzy Quantified Statements under a Voting Model Interpretation of Fuzzy Sets	151
	Arithmetic of Fuzzy Quantities Based On Vague Arithmetic Operations	159
	Level-Sets as Decomposition of the Topological Space SpecA	167
	Axiomatization of Any Residuated Fuzzy Logic Defined by a Continuous T-norm	172
	Extension of Lukasiewicz Logic by Product Connective	180
	Formulas of Lukasiewicz's Logic Represented by Hyperplanes	189
	Fuzzifying the Thoughts of Animals	195
	Approximating Fuzzy Control Strategies via CRI	203
	Inequalities in Fuzzy Probability Calculus	211
	Fuzziness and Uncertainty within the Framework of Context Model	219
	Uncertainty in Noise Mapping: Comparing a Probabilistic and a Fuzzy Set Approach	229
	Trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers	237
	A Discrete-Time Portfolio Selection with Uncertainty of Stock Prices	245
	A Fuzzy Approach to Stochastic Dominance of Random Variables	253
	Extracting Strict Orders from Fuzzy Preference Relations	261
	T-Ferrers Relations versus T-biorders	269
	Sugeno Integrals for the Modelling of Noise Annoyance Aggregation	277
	On Separability of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets	285
	Calculating Limit Decisions in Factoring Using a Fuzzy Decision Model Based on Interactions between Goals	293
	Fuzzy Models of Rainfall-Discharge Dynamics	303
	A Rule-Based Method to Aggregate Criteria with Different Relevance	311
	Imprecise Modelling Using Gradual Rules and Its Application to the Classification of Time Series	319
	A Semi-supervised Clustering Algorithm for Data Exploration	328
	A Comparative Study of Classifiers on a Real Data Set	338
	A Note on Quality Measures for Fuzzy Association Rules	346
	Differentiated Treatment of Missing Values in Fuzzy Clustering	354
	Mining Multi-level Diagnostic Process Rules from Clinical Databases Using Rough Sets and Medical Diagnostic Model	362
	Rough Sets and Information Granulation	370
	Indiscernibility-Based Clustering: Rough Clustering	378
	Fuzzy Multiset Space and c-Means Clustering Using Kernels with Applications to Information Retrieval	387
	Using Similarity Measures for Histogram Comparison	396
	A CHC Evolutionary Algorithm for 3D Image Registration	404
	Color Image Enhancement Using the Support Fuzzification	412
	Lattice Fuzzy Signal Operators and Generalized Image Gradients	420
	Non-uniform Coders Design for Motion Compression Method by Fuzzy Relational Equations	428
	A Method for Coding/Decoding Images by Using Fuzzy Relation Equations	436
	Embedded Fuzzy Control System in an Open Computerized Numerical Control: A Technology Transfer Case-Study	442
	Activation of Trapezoidal Fuzzy Subsets with Different Inference Methods	450
	Design and Simulation of a Fuzzy Substrate Feeding Controller for an Industrial Scale Fed-Batch Baker Yeast Fermentor	458
	Fuzzy Supervisor for Combining Sliding Mode Control and Hoo Control	466
	Intelligent PID Control by Immune Algorithms Based Fuzzy Rule Auto-Tuning	474
	Implementation and Applications of a Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Method	483
	System Modelling Using Fuzzy Numbers	492
	Fuzzy Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear MIMO Systems with Application to a 2DOF Twin Propeller	500
	Improvement of Second Order Sliding-Mode Controller Applied to Position Control of Induction Motors Using Fuzzy Logic	508
	Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Application of Fuzzy Clustering for Designing a TSK-based Fuzzy Energy Flow Management Unit	516
	A Fuzzy Logic Vision and Control System Embedded with Human Knowledge for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation	526
	Fuzzy Logic Based Dynamic Localization and Map Updating for Mobile Robots	535
	An Overview on Soft Computing in Behavior Based Robotics	544
	Asymmetric Redundancy of Tuples in Fuzzy Relational Database	552
	Fuzzy Clustering in Classification Using Weighted Features	560
	Data and Clustor Weighting in Target Selection Based on Fuzzy Clustering	568
	On-line Design of Takagi-Sugeno Models	576
	Gradient Projection Method and Equality Index in Recurrent Neural Fuzzy Network	585
	Experimental Analysis of Sensory Measurement Imperfection Impact for a Cheese Ripening Fuzzy Model	595
	Generation of Fuzzy Membership Function Using Information Theory Measures and Genetic Algorithm	603
	Analyzing the Performance of a Multiobjective GA-P Algorithm for Learning Fuzzy Queries in a Machine Learning Environment	611
	Commutativity as Prior Knowledge in Fuzzy Modeling	620
	Evolutionary Optimization of Fuzzy Models with Asymmetric RBF Membership Functions Using Simplified Fitness Sharing	628
	Fuzzy Multi-objective Optimization Approach for Rod Shape Design in Long Product Rolling	636
	A Fuzzy-Based Meta-model for Reasoning about Number of Software Defects	644
	A Dual Representation of Uncertain Dynamic Spatial Information	652
	Enabling Fuzzy Object Comparison in Modern Programming Platforms through Reflection	660
	An XML-based Approach to Processing Imprecise Requirements	668
	Inducing Fuzzy Concepts through Extended Version Space Learning	677
	A Symbolic Approximate Reasoning under Fuzziness	685
	Making Fuzzy Absolute and Fuzzy Relative Orders of Magnitude Consistent	694
	Learning First Order Fuzzy Logic Rules	702
	An Interactive Fuzzy Satisfying Method for Multiobjective Nonlinear Integer Programming Problems through Genetic Algorithms	710
	A Global Optimization Method for Solving Fuzzy Relation Equations	718
	A Study on Fuzzy Random Linear Programming Problems Based on Possibility and Necessity Measures	725
	Author Index	733