Fuzzy Sets and Systems - IFSA 2003

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.

Invited Papers.- A Perspective on the Philosophical Grounding of Fuzzy Theories.- Binary Operations on Fuzzy Sets: Recent Advances.- Multiple Criteria Choice, Ranking, and Sorting in the Presence of Ordinal Data and Interactive Points of View.- Dual Interval Model and Its Application to Decision Making.- Automatic Taxonomy Generation: Issues and Possibilities.- Mathematical Areas.- A Fuzziness Measure of Rough Sets.- Fuzzy Closure Operators Induced by Similarity.- A New Approach to Teaching Fuzzy Logic System Design.- On the Transitivity of Fuzzy Indifference Relations.- About Zf, the Set of Fuzzy Relative Integers, and the Definition of Fuzzy Bags on Zf.- The Difference Between 2 Multidimensional Fuzzy Bags: A New Perspective on Comparing Successful and Unsuccessful User’s Web Behavior.- A Discussion of Indices for the Evaluation of Fuzzy Associations in Relational Databases.- On a Characterization of Fuzzy Bags.- A New Proposal of Aggregation Functions: The Linguistic Summary.- Fuzzy Quantifiers, Multiple Variable Binding, and Branching Quantification.- Modeling the Concept of Fuzzy Majority Opinion.- Modelling Fuzzy Quantified Statements under a Voting Model Interpretation of Fuzzy Sets.- Arithmetic of Fuzzy Quantities Based on Vague Arithmetic Operations.- Level-Sets as Decomposition of the Topological Space SpecA.- Axiomatization of Any Residuated Fuzzy Logic Defined by a Continuous T-norm.- Extension of ?ukasiewicz Logic by Product Connective.- Formulas of ?ukasiewicz’s Logic Represented by Hyperplanes.- Fuzzifying the Thoughts of Animats.- Approximating Fuzzy Control Strategies via CRI.- Inequalities in Fuzzy Probability Calculus.- Fuzziness and Uncertainty within the Framework of Context Model.- Uncertainty in Noise Mapping: Comparing a Probabilistic and a Fuzzy Set Approach.- Trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers.- Methodological Areas.- A Discrete-Time Portfolio Selection with Uncertainty of Stock Prices.- A Fuzzy Approach to Stochastic Dominance of Random Variables.- Extracting Strict Orders from Fuzzy Preference Relations.- T-Ferrers Relations versus T-biorders.- Sugeno Integrals for the Modelling of Noise Annoyance Aggregation.- On Separability of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets.- Calculating Limit Decisions in Factoring Using a Fuzzy Decision Model Based on Interactions between Goals.- Fuzzy Models of Rainfall-Discharge Dynamics.- A Rule-Based Method to Aggregate Criteria with Different Relevance.- Imprecise Modelling Using Gradual Rules and Its Application to the Classification of Time Series.- A Semi-supervised Clustering Algorithm for Data Exploration.- A Comparative Study of Classifiers on a Real Data Set.- A Note on Quality Measures for Fuzzy Association Rules.- Differentiated Treatment of Missing Values in Fuzzy Clustering.- Mining Multi-level Diagnostic Process Rules from Clinical Databases Using Rough Sets and Medical Diagnostic Model.- Rough Sets and Information Granulation.- Indiscernibility-Based Clustering: Rough Clustering.- Fuzzy Multiset Space and c-Means Clustering Using Kernels with Application to Information Retrieval.- Using Similarity Measures for Histogram Comparison.- A CHC Evolutionary Algorithm for 3D Image Registration.- Color Image Enhancement Using the Support Fuzzification.- Lattice Fuzzy Signal Operators and Generalized Image Gradients.- Non-uniform Coders Design for Motion Compression Method by Fuzzy Relational Equations.- A Method for Coding/Decoding Images by Using Fuzzy Relation Equations.- Application Areas.- Embedded Fuzzy Control System in an Open Computerized Numerical Control: A Technology Transfer Case-Study.- Activation of Trapezoidal Fuzzy Subsets with Different Inference Methods.- Design and Simulation of a Fuzzy Substrate Feeding Controller for an Industrial Scale Fed-Batch Baker Yeast Fermentor.- Fuzzy Supervisor for Combining Sliding Mode Control and H? Control.- Intelligent PID Control by Immune Algorithms Based Fuzzy Rule Auto-Tuning.- Implementation and Applications of a Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Method.- System Modelling Using Fuzzy Numbers.- Fuzzy Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear MIMO Systems with Application to a 2DOF Twin Propeller.- Improvement of Second Order Sliding-Mode Controller Applied to Position Control of Induction Motors Using Fuzzy Logic.- Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Application of Fuzzy Clustering for Designing a TSK-based Fuzzy Energy Flow Management Unit.- A Fuzzy Logic Vision and Control System Embedded with Human Knowledge for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation.- Fuzzy Logic Based Dynamic Localization and Map Updating for Mobile Robots.- An Overview on Soft Computing in Behavior Based Robotics.- Asymmetric Redundancy of Tuples in Fuzzy Relational Database.- Fuzzy Clustering in Classification Using Weighted Features.- Data and Cluster Weighting in Target Selection Based on Fuzzy Clustering.- Cross-Disciplinary Areas.- On-line Design of Takagi-Sugeno Models.- Gradient Projection Method and Equality Index in Recurrent Neural Fuzzy Network.- Experimental Analysis of Sensory Measurement Imperfection Impact for a Cheese Ripening Fuzzy Model.- Generation of Fuzzy Membership Function Using Information Theory Measures and Genetic Algorithm.- Analyzing the Performance of a Multiobjective GA-P Algorithm for Learning Fuzzy Queries in a Machine Learning Environment.- Commutativity as Prior Knowledge in Fuzzy Modeling.- Evolutionary Optimization of Fuzzy Models with Asymmetric RBF Membership Functions Using Simplified Fitness Sharing.- Fuzzy Multi-objective Optimisation Approach for Rod Shape Design in Long Product Rolling.- A Fuzzy-Based Meta-model for Reasoning about the Number of Software Defects.- A Dual Representation of Uncertain Dynamic Spatial Information.- Enabling Fuzzy Object Comparison in Modern Programming Platforms through Reflection.- An XML-based Approach to Processing Imprecise Requirements.- Inducing Fuzzy Concepts through Extended Version Space Learning.- A Symbolic Approximate Reasoning under Fuzziness.- Making Fuzzy Absolute and Fuzzy Relative Orders of Magnitude Consistent.- Learning First Order Fuzzy Logic Rules.- An Interactive Fuzzy Satisfying Method for Multiobjective Nonlinear Integer Programming Problems through Genetic Algorithms.- A Global Optimization Method for Solving Fuzzy Relation Equations.- A Study on Fuzzy Random Linear Programming Problems Based on Possibility and Necessity Measures.