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The treatment of complex systems often requires the manipulation of vague, imprecise and uncertain information. Indeed, the human being is competent in handling of such systems in a natural way. Instead of thinking in mathematical terms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Baghdad Atmani , Sofia Benbelkacem , Mohamed Benamina

Learning the parameters of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) from limited data is a significant challenge. We introduce the Fuzzy MAP EM algorithm, a novel approach that incorporates expert knowledge into the parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Marco Locatelli , Arjen Hommersom , Roberto Clemens Cerioli , Daniela Besozzi , Fabio Stella

In the subjective Bayesian approach uncertainty is described by a prior distribution chosen by the statistician. Fuzzy set theory is another way of representing uncertainty. Here we give a decision theoretic approach which allows a Bayesian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Glen Meeden

How to handle uncertainty in medical diagnosis is an open issue. In this paper, a new decision making methodology based on Z-numbers is presented. Firstly, the experts' opinions are represented by Z-numbers. Z-number is an ordered pair of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Dong Wu , Xiang Liu , Feng Xue , Hanqing Zheng , Yehang Shou , Wen Jiang

In this paper, generalised intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets and relations on generalised intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets are defined and a few of their properties are studied. An application of generalised intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Bivas Dinda , Tuhin Bera , T. K. Samanta

Considering the high volume, wide variety, and rapid speed of data generation, investigating feature selection methods for big data presents various applications and advantages. By removing irrelevant and redundant features, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mohammad Hossein Safarpour , Seyed Majid Alavi , Mohammad Izadikhah , Hossein Dibachi

From last decade, when Molodtsov introduced the theory of soft set as a new approach to deal with uncertainties, until now this theory was considered sharply by a fair number of researchers. Combination of fuzzy set theory and soft set…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Azadeh Zahedi Khameneh , Adem Kilicman , Abdul Razak Salleh

On the basis of network analysis, and within the context of modeling imprecision or vague information with fuzzy sets, we propose an innovative way to analyze, aggregate and apply this uncertain knowledge into community detection of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Inmaculada Gutiérrez , Daniel Gómez , Javier Castro , Rosa Espínola

In 1999, Molodtsov \cite{1} developed the idea of soft set theory, proving it to be a flexible mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty. Several researchers have extended the framework by combining it with other theories of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Santanu Acharjee , Sidhartha Medhi

In our work, we continue to explore the properties of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets, which are obtained by combining interval-valued fuzzy sets and soft sets. We introduce the concept of energy of an interval-valued fuzzy soft set, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ljubica Djurović , Maja Laković , Nenad Stojanović

The practice of stochastic sensitivity analysis described in the decision analysis literature is a testimonial to the need for considering deviations from precise point estimates of uncertainty. We propose the use of Bayesian fuzzy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Pramod Jain , Alice M. Agogino

Modeling human ratings data subject to raters' decision uncertainty is an attractive problem in applied statistics. In view of the complex interplay between emotion and decision making in rating processes, final raters' choices seldom…

Applications · Statistics 2021-05-21 Antonio Calcagnì , Luigi Lombardi

The treatment of both aleatory and epistemic uncertainty by recent methods often requires an high computational effort. In this abstract, we propose a numerical sampling method allowing to lighten the computational burden of treating the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-12-14 Eric Chojnacki , Jean Baccou , Sébastien Destercke

In this paper we present architecture of a fuzzy expert system used for therapy of dyslalic children. With fuzzy approach we can create a better model for speech therapist decisions. A software interface was developed for validation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Ovidiu-Andrei Schipor , Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc , Maria-Doina Schipor

The approach described here allows to use the fuzzy Object Based Representation of imprecise and uncertain knowledge. This representation has a great practical interest due to the possibility to realize reasoning on classification with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Mohamed Nazih Omri

Fuzzy optimization deals with the problem of determining 'optimal'solutions of an optimization problem when some of the elements that appear in the problem are not precise. In real situations it is usual to have information, in systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Victor Blanco , Justo Puerto

In the intricate field of medical diagnostics, capturing the subtle manifestations of diseases remains a challenge. Traditional methods, often binary in nature, may not encapsulate the nuanced variances that exist in real-world clinical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Salem Ameen , Ravivarman Balachandran , Theodoros Theodoridis

Maji et al. introduced in 2002 a method of parametric decision making using soft sets as tools and representing their tabular form as a binary matrix. In cases, however, where some or all of the parameters used for the characterization of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Michael Gr. Voskoglou

Aiming at the group decision - making problem with multi - objective attributes, this study proposes a group decision - making system that integrates fuzzy inference and Bayesian network. A fuzzy rule base is constructed by combining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Shui-jin Rong , Wei Guo , Da-qing Zhang

A new approach for uncertainty management for fuzzy, rule based decision support systems is proposed: The domain expert's knowledge is expressed by a set of rules that frequently refer to vague and uncertain propositions. The certainty of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Christoph F. Eick