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Fuel injector is the key part of a high-pressure common rail fuel injection system. Its manufacturing precision and assembly quality affect system's property and performance. According to the characteristics and demands of assembly of the fuel injector, an intelligent optimization algorithm is proposed...

After analyzing the enterprise’s production strategy under the constraints of carbon quota, this paper proposes new mathematical models aiming for the optimal choice of enterprise’s production strategy under the monopoly and competitive environments respectively. Combining the neural network optimization...

A graph structure is a useful tool in solving the combinatorial problems in different areas of computer science and computational intelligence systems. In this paper, we introduce the concept of cubic graph, which is different from the notion of cubic graph in S. Rashid, N. Yaqoob, M. Akram, M. Gulistan,...

Localization is one of the key issues in wireless sensor networks. Several algorithms and techniques have been introduced for localization. Localization is a procedural technique of estimating the sensor node location. In this paper, a novel three hybrid algorithms based on firefly is proposed for localization...

The main objectives of this article include the formal statement of a new mathematical model of uncertain knowledge and the presentation of its potential applications. The novel hybrid model is called complex Pythagorean fuzzy N-soft set (CPFNSS) because it enjoys both the parametric structure of N-soft...

Epilepsy can well be stated as a disorder of the central nervous systems (CNS) that brought about recurring seizures owing to chronic abnormal blasts of electrical discharge on the brain. Knowing if an individual is having a seizure and diagnosing the seizure type or epilepsy syndrome could be hard....

Driving tendency is the comprehensive embodiment of driver's physiological and psychological characteristics. It reflects driver's psychological condition during the process of driving. Identification of the driving tendency has great significance to researching of the driver assistant system, especially...

To detect indeterminacy effect in the manufacturing process, attribute control chart using neutrosophic Weibull distribution is proposed in this paper. To make the attribute control chart more efficient for persistent shifts in the industrial process, an attribute control chart using Weibull distribution...

Presently, a conventional coalition structure can no more cover all the types of cooperative structures in practice, external cooperation between the coalitions also affects the payoff allocation between the participants. We propose a solution to solve the bargaining problem with level structure by defining...

As reserving a certain number of potential partners plays a significant role in alleviating existing partners' collaborative interruption risks, we investigate the process of discovering potential partners to improve the supply chain network's resilience. Most of the existing research confines...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has the disadvantage of limited and non-rechargeable energy resource in WSN creates a challenge and led to development of various clustering and routing algorithms. The paper proposes an approach for improving network lifetime by using Particle swarm optimization based...

The stability of process is certainly one of the most important aspects to fulfill the task. Now, it is still a challenge to put forward a model to deal with the stability of manufacturing process mathematically. Aiming at solving the problem, this paper discusses the issues by the notion of manufacturing...

The aim of this research is to automate an analysis of the EGFR gene as a whole, and especially an analysis of those exons with clinically identified microdeletion mutations which are recorded with non-mutated nucleotides in a long chains of a, c, t, g nucleotides, and “-“ (microdeletion) in the NCBI...

Most of the advanced first-order logic automated theorem proving (ATP) systems adopt binary resolution methods as the core inference mechanism, where only two clauses are involved and a complementary pair of literals are eliminated during each deduction step. Recently, a novel multi-clause inference...

We focus on the development of a method to guide the choice of a set of users in an environment where the number of features describing the items is high and user interaction becomes laborious. Using the framework of formal concept analysis, particularly the notion of implication between attributes,...

In most existing large-scale group decision making (LSGDM) problems, the relationships between decision makers (DMs) are usually ignored or regarded as static. However, in many cases, the results of LSGDM are dynamically influenced by the relationship between group members. To address this issue, a dynamic...

Urban Traffic Flow Guidance System (UTFGS) may cause the overreaction and concentration of travelers and lead to the phenomenon of Braess Paradox. The paper develops a constrained K-shortest paths algorithm within a dynamic restricted searching area in consideration of realistic road network spatial...

This paper introduces the 3rd major release of the KEEL Software. KEEL is an open source Java framework (GPLv3 license) that provides a number of modules to perform a wide variety of data mining tasks. It includes tools to perform data management, design of multiple kind of experiments, statistical analyses,...

This paper focuses on the bit error rate (BER) performance of intelligent transportation communication system under multi-path mobile frequency-selective channels. After presenting the theoretical BER performance formula of single carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) in the form of double integral,...

Semantic face inpainting from corrupted images is a challenging problem in computer vision and has many practical applications. Different from well-studied nature image inpainting, the face inpainting task often needs to fill pixels semantically into a missing region based on the available visual data....

Software Fault Prediction (SFP) research has made enormous endeavor to accurately predict fault proneness of software modules, thus maximize precious software test resources, reduce maintenance cost and contributes to produce quality software products. In this regard, Machine Learning (ML) has been successfully...

As an extension of hesitant fuzzy set, the probabilistic hesitant fuzzy set (PHFS) can more accurately express the initial decision information given by experts, thus the decision method based on PHFS is more true and reliable. In this paper, multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) method is proposed...

Rapid growth and development of civil engineering in recent years inspire building enterprises to concentrate on construction contractor selection for achieving more construction quality and lower construction cost. The existing studies generally regard the process of selecting the best contractor as...

The uncertain nonlinear systems can be modeled with fuzzy equations or fuzzy differential equations (FDEs) by incorporating the fuzzy set theory. The solutions of them are applied to analyze many engineering problems. However, it is very difficult to obtain solutions of FDEs. In this paper, the solutions...

Plenty of experiments and data analysis of vehicle track type in road curved section show that the deviation and the crossing characteristics of vehicle track paths are directly related to the driving stability and security. In this paper, the concept of driving dangerous area in curved section was proposed...

Deep neural network-based end-to-end visuomotor control for robotic manipulation is becoming a hot issue of robotics field recently. One-hot vector is often used for multi-task situation in this framework. However, it is inflexible using one-hot vector to describe multiple tasks and transmit intentions...

Document representation is one of the foundations of natural language processing. The bag-of-words (BoW) model, as the representative of document representation models, is a method with the properties of simplicity and validity. However, the traditional BoW model has the drawbacks of sparsity and lacking...

Person detection in real videos and images is a classical research problem in computer vision. Person detection is a nontrivial problem that offers many challenges due to several nuisances that commonly observed in natural videos. Among these, scale is the main challenging problem in various object detection...

The goal of biomimicry is to resolve problems by studying and mimicking the characteristics of organisms or design elements in nature. Although wireless sensor networks are used in various fields, they have limited network lifespan. Research has thus focused on observing and modeling the behavioral principles...

In order to establish an available emergency management system, it is important to conduct effective evacuation with reliable and real time optimal route plans. This paper aims at creating a route finding strategy by considering the time dependent factors as well as uncertainties that may be encountered...

The significance of addressing Big Data applications is beyond all doubt. The current ability of extracting interesting knowledge from large volumes of information provides great advantages to both corporations and academia. Therefore, researchers and practitioners must deal with the problem of scalability...

In the highly dynamic complex product design process, task allocations recovered by reactive allocating decisions are usually subject to design changes. In this paper, a robust predictive–reactive allocating approach considering possible disruption times is proposed, so that it can absorb the disruption...

In this paper, different classes of the whorl fingerprint are discussed. A general dynamical system with a parameter θ is created using differential equations to simulate these classes by varying the value of θ. The global dynamics is studied, and the existence and stability of equilibria are analyzed....

Search-based agents have shown to perform well in many game-based applications. In the context of partially-observable scenarios agent's require the state to be fully determinized. Especially in case of collectible cards games, the sheer number of decks constructed by players hinder an agent to...

This paper proposes a topological analysis of urban transit system based on a functional representation network constructed from the urban transit system in Beijing. The representation gives a functional view on nodes named a transit line. Statistical measures are computed and introduced in complex network...

Many hydrocarbon explorations in mature fields have been severely affected by complex and overburdening issues, such as shallow gas accumulation, gas pockets, and gas seepage. In this work, a new forward modelling technique is proposed in evaluating the potential survey design for fields affected by...

Time-difference method is a vitally significant algorithm for measuring natural gas flow with ultrasonic gas flowmeter. The key of this algorithm is to accurately measure the arrival time of ultrasonic signal. However, it is difficult to determine the feature points corresponding to the arrival time...

The paper proposes and analyses performance of a fuzzy-based mediator with showcase examples in robot navigation. The mediator receives outputs from two controllers and uses estimated collision probability for adapting the signal proportions in the final output. The approach was implemented and tested...

A tracked vehicle gearbox is divided into two subsystems-housing and gear train. Dynamic behaviors of the two subsystems are coupled practically. And the coupled characteristics describe the integrative dynamic behaviors of gearbox. This study proposes a coupled simulation model to investigate the interrelationship...

The explosion of the Internet has deeply affected the labour market. Identifying most rewarded and demanded items in job offers is key for recruiters and candidates. This work analyses 4, 000 job offers from a Spanish IT recruitment portal. We conclude that (1) experience is more rewarded than education,...

The Monte Carlo adaptation rule has been proposed to design asymmetric neural network. By adjusting the degree of the symmetry of the networks designed by this rule, the spurious memories or unwanted attractors of the networks can be suppressed completely. We have extended this rule to design full-connected...

This paper develops uncertain probabilistic dual hesitant fuzzy numbers (UPDHFN), which includes six types of dual hesitant fuzzy sets (DHFNs). Next, the UPDHFN is applied to the uncertain probabilistic dual hesitant fuzzy preference relation (UPDHFPR). Furthermore, the (acceptable) expected consistency,...

In this paper a coarse-grain execution model for evolutionary algorithms is proposed and used for solving numerical and combinatorial optimization problems. This model does not use migration as the solution dispersion mechanism, in its place a more efficient population-merging mechanism is used that...

Motivated by a problem in the commodity transportation, a mathematical model is developed to calculate capacity of single-commodity network when the time reliability levels of transporting commodity between origin-destination pairs are constrained. We use a hybrid intelligent algorithm, in which genetic...

Inductive learning has been—and still is—one of the most important methods that can be applied in classification problems. Knowledge is usually represented using rules that establish relationships between the problem variables. SLAVE (Structural Learning Algorithm in a Vague Environment)...

Moore's interval arithmetic always provides the same results of arithmetic operations, e.g. [1, 3]+ [5, 9]= [6, 12]. But in real life problems, the operation result can be different, e.g. equal to [4, 7]. Therefore, real problems require more advanced arithmetic. The paper presents (on example of the...

In polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) hyperandrogenism and metabolic dysfunction increase cardiovascular risk. Vitamin D3 deficiency is a common comorbidity in PCOS. Our aim was to examine the alterations of insulin-induced vasodilation and receptor expression in rat aorta in a PCOS model. Methods: Female...

Background/Objectives: We previously demonstrated a different regional stiffness response of elastic and muscular arteries after the administration of nitroglycerin, leading to an alteration of aortic-brachial stiffness gradient. Regional stiffness of smaller arteries may respond differently to vasodilation...

Granular computing is a essential mathematical tool in artificial intelligence. An incomplete information system is an important model and its basic structures are information structures. This paper investigates information structures in an incomplete information system from granular computing viewpoint,...