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In this paper, we are trying to examine trade offs between fuzzy logic and certain Bayesian networks and we propose to combine their respective advantages into fuzzy certain Bayesian networks (FCBN), a certain Bayesian networks of fuzzy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Abdelkader Heni , Mohamed Nazih Omri , Adel Alimi

Clinical decision requires reasoning in the presence of imperfect data. DTs are a well-known decision support tool, owing to their interpretability, fundamental in safety-critical contexts such as medical diagnosis. However, learning DTs…

In benchmarking, organizations look outward to examine others' performance in their industry or sector. Often, they can learn from the best practices of some of them and improve. In order to develop this idea within the framework of Data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Nuria Ramón , José L. Ruiz , Inmaculada Sirvent

In this paper, we present a unified framework for decision making under uncertainty. Our framework is based on the composite of two risk measures, where the inner risk measure accounts for the risk of decision given the exact distribution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Pengyu Qian , Zizhuo Wang , Zaiwen Wen

deaR is a recently developed R package for data envelopment analysis (DEA) that implements a large number of conventional and fuzzy models, along with super-efficiency models, cross-efficiency analysis, Malmquist index, bootstrapping, and…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-06-05 Vicente J. Bolos , Rafael Benitez , Vicente Coll-Serrano

This paper is concerned with multi-modal data fusion (MMDF) under unexpected modality failures in nonlinear non-Gaussian dynamic processes. An efficient framework to tackle this problem is proposed. In particular, a notion termed modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Bin Liu

This paper is to consider the problems of estimation and recognition from the perspective of sigma-max inference (probability-possibility inference), with a focus on discovering whether some of the unknown quantities involved could be more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Wei Mei , Yunfeng Xu , Limin Liu

Accurate and efficient uncertainty estimation is crucial to build reliable Machine Learning (ML) models capable to provide calibrated uncertainty estimates, generalize and detect Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) datasets. To this end,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Bertrand Charpentier , Chenxiang Zhang , Stephan Günnemann

Dense prediction tasks are common for 3D point clouds, but the uncertainties inherent in massive points and their embeddings have long been ignored. In this work, we present CUE, a novel uncertainty estimation method for dense prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Kaiwen Cai , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Xiaowei Huang

Many problems in engineering and sciences require the solution of large scale optimization constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs). Though PDE-constrained optimization is itself challenging, most applications pose additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Joseph Hart , Bart van Bloemen Waanders , Roland Herzog

The Best-Worst Method (BWM) is a well-known Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) method used to calculate criteria-weights in many real-life applications. It was observed that the decision judgments used to calculate weights in BWM may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Harshit M Ratandhara , Mohit Kumar

This paper studies identification and estimation of a class of dynamic models in which the decision maker (DM) is uncertain about the data-generating process. The DM surrounds a benchmark model that he or she fears is misspecified by a set…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-01-30 Timothy M. Christensen

The basic aim of our study is to give a possible model for handling uncertain information. This model is worked out in the framework of DATALOG. At first the concept of fuzzy Datalog will be summarized, then its extensions for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-04-08 Agnes Achs

Reliability assessment of distribution system, based on historical data and probabilistic methods, leads to an unreliable estimation of reliability indices since the data for the distribution components are usually inaccurate or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Ahmad Shokrollahi , Hossein Sangrody , Mahdi Motalleb , Mandana Rezaeiahari , Elham Foruzan , Fattah Hassanzadeh

This contribution reviews critically the existing entropy measures for probabilistic hesitant fuzzy sets (PHFSs), and demonstrates that these entropy measures fail to effectively distinguish a variety of different PHFSs in some cases. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Bahram Farhadinia , Uwe Aickelin , Hadi Akbarzadeh Khorshidi

An important constraint of Fuzzy Inference Systems (FIS) is their structured rules defined based on evaluating all input variables. Indeed, the length of all fuzzy rules and the number of input variables are equal. However, in many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Armin Salimi-Badr

We introduce a general theory of epistemic random fuzzy sets for reasoning with fuzzy or crisp evidence. This framework generalizes both the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions, and possibility theory. Independent epistemic random…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Thierry Denoeux

The Fuzzy Modeling has been applied in a wide variety of fields such as Engineering and Management Sciences and Social Sciences to solve a number Decision Making Problems which involve impreciseness, uncertainty and vagueness in data. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Arindam Chaudhuri , Kajal De , Dipak Chatterjee

Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method is widely used in many real applications. With the desirable property of efficient handling with the uncertain information in decision making, the fuzzy DEMATEL is heavily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Yunpeng Li , Ya Li , Jie Liu , Yong Deng

In this paper, we constructed a model to determine weights of criterias and presented a solution for determining the optimal alternative by using the constructed model and relationship analysis between criterias in fuzzy group…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Jon JaeGyong , Mun JongHui , Ryang GyongIl