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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…

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We provide a rigorous framework for handling uncertainty in quantitative fault tree analysis based on fuzzy theory. We show that any algorithm for fault tree unreliability analysis can be adapted to this framework in a fully general and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Thi Kim Nhung Dang , Benedikt Peterseim , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Mariëlle Stoelinga

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

Soft set theory, introduced by Molodtsov [Molodtsov, D. (1999). Soft set theory-first results. Comput. Math. Appl., 37(4-5), 19-31], provides a flexible framework for managing uncertainty and vagueness, addressing limitations in traditional…

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

Fuzziness and randomicity widespread exist in natural science, engineering, technology and social science. The purpose of this paper is to present a new logic - uncertain propositional logic which can deal with both fuzziness by taking…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Maokang Luo , Wei He

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

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

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP) has achieved remarkable progress. Nonetheless, significant challenges remain in handling texts with ambiguity, polysemy, or uncertainty. We…

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This paper proposes a new fuzzy assessing procedure with application in management decision making. The proposed fuzzy approach build the membership functions for system characteristics of a standby repairable system. This method is used to…

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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…

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Medical diagnosis process vary in the degree to which they attempt to deal with different complicating aspects of diagnosis such as relative importance of symptoms, varied symptom pattern and the relation between diseases them selves. Based…

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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

Emergences of computers and information technological revolution made tremendous changes in the real world and provides a different dimension for the intelligent data analysis. Well formed fact, the information at right time and at right…

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In this paper, we propose a novel weighted combination feature selection method using bootstrap and fuzzy sets. The proposed method mainly consists of three processes, including fuzzy sets generation using bootstrap, weighted combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Zixiao Shen , Xin Chen , Jonathan M. Garibaldi

In dealing with veracity of data analytics, fuzzy methods are more and more relying on probabilistic and statistical techniques to underpin their applicability. Conversely, standard statistical models usually disregard to take into account…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Elvira Di Nardo , Rosaria Simone

The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been, and still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable modern information…

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In the rapidly evolving educational landscape, the unbiased assessment of soft skills is a significant challenge, particularly in higher education. This paper presents a fuzzy logic approach that employs a Granular Linguistic Model of…

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