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Open AccessBuilding an Associative Classifier Based on Fuzzy Association Rules
Classification based on association rules is considered to be effective and advantageous in many cases. However, there is a so-called “sharp boundary” problem in association rules mining with quantitative attr...
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Open AccessNovel Robust Stability Criteria For Uncertain Stochastic Neural Networks with Time-Varying Delay
This paper considers the robust stability analysis problem for a class of uncertain stochastic neural networks with time-varying delay. Based on the Lyapunov functional method, and by resorting to the new tech...
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Open AccessCombining Resting-state fMRI and DTI Analysis for Early-onset Schizophrenia
We combined measures of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to investigate alterations of function-structure relationships in patients with early-onset schizo...
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Open AccessExtremal Optimization Combined with LM Gradient Search for MLP Network Learning
Gradient search based neural network training algorithm may suffer from local optimum, poor generalization and slow convergence. In this study, a novel Memetic Algorithm based hybrid method with the integratio...
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Open AccessA Deterministic Algorithm for Min-max and Max-min Linear Fractional Programming Problems
In this paper, a deterministic global optimization algorithm is proposed for solving min-max and max-min linear fractional programming problem (P) which have broad applications in engineering, management scien...
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Open AccessA New Approach to High-accuracy Road Orthophoto Map** Based on Wavelet Transform
Existing orthophoto map based on satellite photography and aerial photography is not precise enough for road marking. This paper proposes a new approach to high-accuracy orthophoto map**. The approach uses i...
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Open AccessBivariate analysis of typical hydrological series of the yellow river
This paper uses Gumbel-Hougaard (G-H) copula, Clayton copula and Frank copula to construct joint distributions of hydrological variables of the two typical stations on the Yellow River Region, including the an...
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Open AccessThe Evidential Reasoning Approach to Medical Diagnosis using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Dempster-Shafer Theory
For medical diagnosis, fuzzy Dempster-Shafer theory is extended to model domain knowledge under probabilistic and fuzzy uncertainty. However, there are some information loss using discrete fuzzy sets and tradi...
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Open AccessInterval-valued Evidence Updating with Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis for Fault Diagnosis
Information fusion methods based on Dempster-Shafer evidence theory (DST) have been widely used in fault diagnosis. In DST-based methods, the monitoring information collected from sensors is modeled as multipl...
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Guest editorial: special issue on evolutionary optimization, feature reduction and learning
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Open AccessResearch on Vertical Coupling Dynamics of Monorail Vehicle at Finger-Band
In view of the fact that exhibits monorail transportation in recent years, the good situation and the lack of straddle-type monorail vehicle vertical dynamics research, the key problems of vertical vibration w...
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Granular computing in machine learning
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Special issue on Machine learning approaches and challenges of missing data in the era of big data
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Open AccessCollaborative filtering recommendation algorithm based on user correlation and evolutionary clustering
In recent years, application of recommendation algorithm in real life such as Amazon, Taobao is getting universal, but it is not perfect yet. A few problems need to be solved such as sparse data and low recomm...
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Open AccessA cooperative coevolution algorithm for complex hybrid seru-system scheduling optimization
Under the current volatile business environment, the requirement of flexible production is becoming increasingly urgent. As an innovative production mode, seru-system with reconfigurability can overcome the lack ...
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Open AccessAn effective matching algorithm with adaptive tie-breaking strategy for online food delivery problem
With the prosperity of e-commerce, ordering food online has become increasingly prevalent nowadays. Derived from the dispatching problem in Meituan, a real online food delivery (OFD) platform in China, this pa...
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Open AccessA two-agent one-machine multitasking scheduling problem solving by exact and metaheuristics
This paper studies a single-machine multitasking scheduling problem together with two-agent consideration. The objective is to look for an optimal schedule to minimize the total tardiness of one agent subject ...
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Open AccessKnowledge from the original network: restore a better pruned network with knowledge distillation
To deploy deep neural networks to edge devices with limited computation and storage costs, model compression is necessary for the application of deep learning. Pruning, as a traditional way of model compressio...
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Open AccessAn improved weighted optimization approach for large-scale global optimization
It is a great challenge for ordinary evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to tackle large-scale global optimization (LSGO) problems which involve over hundreds or thousands of decision variables. In this paper, we pr...
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Open AccessDesign of sampling-based noniterative algorithms for centroid type-reduction of general type-2 fuzzy logic systems
General type-2 (GT2) fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) become a popular research topic for the past few years. Usually the Karnik–Mendel algorithms are the most prevalent approach to complete the type-reduction. None...