Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Volume 161

Volume 161, Number 1, January 2010

Special section: New Trends on Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Models

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  Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk:
  Preface to the special section on new trends on pattern recognition with fuzzy models. 1-2
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  Julián Luengo, Francisco Herrera:
  Domains of competence of fuzzy rule based classification systems with data complexity measures: A case of study using a fuzzy hybrid genetic based machine learning method. 3-19
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  Humberto Bustince Sola, Miguel Pagola, Edurne Barrenechea Tartas, Javier Fernández, Pedro Melo-Pinto, Pedro Couto, Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Javier Montero:
  Ignorance functions. An application to the calculation of the threshold in prostate ultrasound images. 20-36
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  Gonzalo Bailador, Gracián Triviño:
  Pattern recognition using temporal fuzzy automata. 37-55
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  Ferdinando Di Martino, Vincenzo Loia, Salvatore Sessa:
  A segmentation method for images compressed by fuzzy transforms. 56-74
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  Sina Zarei Mahmoodabadi, Javad Alirezaie, Paul S. Babyn, Andrea Kassner, Elysa Widjaja:
  Wavelets and fuzzy relational classifiers: A novel spectroscopy analysis system for pediatric metabolic brain diseases. 75-95

Regular section: Image processing

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  André Bigand, Olivier Colot:
  Fuzzy filter based on interval-valued fuzzy sets for image filtering. 96-117
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  Giovanni Palma, Isabelle Bloch, Serge Muller:
  Fast fuzzy connected filter implementation using max-tree updates. 118-146

Volume 161, Number 2, January 2010

Special section: Selected papers from the FSTA 2008 Conference

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  Michal Baczynski, Erich-Peter Klement, Radko Mesiar:
  Selected papers from FSTA 2008, the Ninth International Conference on Fuzzy Sets - Theory and Applications. 147-148
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  Pawel Drygas:
  On properties of uninorms with underlying t-norm and t-conorm given as ordinal sums. 149-157
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  Michal Baczynski, Balasubramaniam Jayaram:
  QL-implications: Some properties and intersections. 158-188
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  Józef Drewniak, Ewa Rak:
  Subdistributivity and superdistributivity of binary operations. 189-201
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  Józef Drewniak, Anna Król:
  A survey of weak connectives and the preservation of their properties by aggregations. 202-215
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  Urszula Dudziak:
  Weak and graded properties of fuzzy relations in the context of aggregation process. 216-233
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  Urszula Dudziak, Barbara Pekala:
  Equivalent bipolar fuzzy relations. 234-253

Regular Sections: Aggregation operations

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  Isabel Aguiló, Jaume Suñer, Joan Torrens:
  Matrix representation of copulas and quasi-copulas defined on non-square grids of the unit square. 254-268
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  Fabrizio Durante, Fabio Spizzichino:
  Semi-copulas, capacities and families of level sets. 269-276
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  Sándor Jenei:
  On the relationship between the rotation construction and ordered Abelian groups. 277-284

Fuzzy relational equations

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  Sy-Ming Guu, Yan-Kuen Wu:
  Minimizing a linear objective function under a max-t-norm fuzzy relational equation constraint. 285-297

Volume 161, Number 3, February 2010

Special Issue: Fuzzy Logics and Related Structures

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  Siegfried Gottwald, Petr Hájek, Ulrich Höhle, Erich-Peter Klement:
  Editorial. 299-300
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  Tomasz Kowalski, Hiroakira Ono:
  Fuzzy logics from substructural perspective. 301-310
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  Petr Cintula, Petr Hájek:
  Triangular norm based predicate fuzzy logics. 311-346
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  Francesc Esteva, Lluís Godo, Carles Noguera:
  On expansions of WNM t-norm based logics with truth-constants. 347-368
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  Agata Ciabattoni, George Metcalfe, Franco Montagna:
  Algebraic and proof-theoretic characterizations of truth stressers for MTL and its extensions. 369-389
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  Petr Cintula, Erich-Peter Klement, Radko Mesiar, Mirko Navara:
  Fuzzy logics with an additional involutive negation. 390-411
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  Lawrence Neff Stout:
  A categorical semantics for fuzzy predicate logic. 412-432
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  Thomas Vetterlein:
  MTL-algebras arising from partially ordered groups. 433-443
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  A. Frascella, Cosimo Guido:
  Structured lattices and topological categories of L-sets. 444-452
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  S. E. Rodabaugh:
  Relationship of algebraic theories to powersets over objects in Set and Set × C. 453-470

Volume 161, Number 4, February 2010

Fuzzy inference systems

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  Federico Montesino-Pouzols, Amaury Lendasse, Angel Barriga Barros:
  Autoregressive time series prediction by means of fuzzy inference systems using nonparametric residual variance estimation. 471-497
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  Christos Anagnostopoulos, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades:
  Advanced fuzzy inference engines in situation aware computing. 498-521

Clustering

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  Daniel Graves, Witold Pedrycz:
  Kernel-based fuzzy clustering and fuzzy clustering: A comparative experimental study. 522-543
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  Moamar Sayed Mouchaweh:
  Semi-supervised classification method for dynamic applications. 544-563

Learning

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  Mahnhoon Lee, Witold Pedrycz:
  Adaptive learning of ordinal-numerical mappings through fuzzy clustering for the objects of mixed features. 564-577
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  Vali Derhami, Vahid Johari Majd, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi:
  Exploration and exploitation balance management in fuzzy reinforcement learning. 578-595
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  Degang Chen, Qiang He, Xizhao Wang:
  FRSVMs: Fuzzy rough set based support vector machines. 596-607

Neural networks

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  Pagavathigounder Balasubramaniam, M. Syed Ali:
  Robust exponential stability of uncertain fuzzy Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with time-varying delays. 608-618

Volume 161, Number 5, March 2010

Non-additive measures

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  Elías F. Combarro, Pedro Miranda:
  Adjacency on the order polytope with applications to the theory of fuzzy measures. 619-641
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  Jun Kawabe:
  Regularities of Riesz space-valued non-additive measures with applications to convergence theorems for Choquet integrals. 642-650
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  Xuekun Ren, Chong Wu, Congxin Wu:
  Some remarks on the double asymptotic null-additivity of monotonic measures and related applications. 651-660

Set-Multifunctions

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  Anca Precupanu, Alina Gavrilut, Anca Croitoru:
  A fuzzy Gould type integral. 661-680
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  Alina Cristiana Gavrilut:
  Regularity and autocontinuity of set multifunctions. 681-693

Sugeno Integrals

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  Miguel Couceiro, Jean-Luc Marichal:
  Characterizations of discrete Sugeno integrals as polynomial functions over distributive lattices. 694-707
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  Hamzeh Agahi, Radko Mesiar, Yao Ouyang:
  General Minkowski type inequalities for Sugeno integrals. 708-715

Formal Languages

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  Symeon Bozapalidis, Olympia Louscou-Bozapalidou:
  Fuzzy tree language recognizability. 716-734

Algebra

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  John Harding, Carol L. Walker, Elbert A. Walker:
  The variety generated by the truth value algebra of type-2 fuzzy sets. 735-749
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  Yung-Yih Lur, Yan-Kuen Wu, Sy-Ming Guu:
  On the max-generalized mean powers of a fuzzy matrix. 750-762
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  Branimir Seselja, Dragan Stojic, Andreja Tepavcevic:
  On existence of P-valued fuzzy sets with a given collection of cuts. 763-768

Correspondence

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  Bo Sun, Congxin Wu:
  Yet another note on the range of null-additive fuzzy and non-fuzzy measures. 769-770

Volume 161, Number 6, March 2010

Adaptive Control

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  Shaocheng Tong, Xianglei He, Yongming Li, Huaguang Zhang:
  Adaptive fuzzy backstepping robust control for uncertain nonlinear systems based on small-gain approach. 771-796
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  Abdesselem Boulkroune, Mohamed Tadjine, Mohammed M'Saad, Mondher Farza:
  Fuzzy adaptive controller for MIMO nonlinear systems with known and unknown control direction. 797-820
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  Weisheng Chen, Zhengqiang Zhang:
  Globally stable adaptive backstepping fuzzy control for output-feedback systems with unknown high-frequency gain sign. 821-836

Robust control

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  Yih-Guang Leu:
  Mean-based fuzzy identifier and control of uncertain nonlinear systems. 837-858
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  Jun Yoneyama:
  Robust H_∞ control of uncertain fuzzy systems under time-varying sampling. 859-871
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  Xinrui Liu, Huaguang Zhang, Jing Dai:
  Delay-dependent robust and reliable H_∞ fuzzy hyperbolic decentralized control for uncertain nonlinear interconnected systems. 872-892

Controller design

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  Mohamed Khairy, Abdel-Latif Elshafei, Hassan M. Emara:
  LMI based design of constrained fuzzy predictive control. 893-918
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  Hwa Chang Sung, Do-Wan Kim, Jin Bae Park, Young Hoon Joo:
  Robust digital control of fuzzy systems with parametric uncertainties: LMI-based digital redesign approach. 919-933

Volume 161, Number 7, April 2010

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  Murat Diker, Senol Dost, Aysegül Altay Ugur:
  Interior and closure operators on texture spaces - I: Basic concepts and Cech closure operators. 935-953
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  Murat Diker, Senol Dost, Aysegül Altay Ugur:
  Interior and closure operators on texture spaces - II: Dikranjan-Giuli closure operators and Hutton algebras. 954-972
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  Wei Yao:
  Quantitative domains via fuzzy sets: Part I: Continuity of fuzzy directed complete posets. 973-987
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  Hong-Yan Li, Fu-Gui Shi:
  Degrees of fuzzy compactness in L-fuzzy topological spaces. 988-1001
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  Gunther Jäger:
  Compactification of lattice-valued convergence spaces. 1002-1010
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  Javier Gutiérrez García, Salvador Romaguera, Manuel Sanchis:
  Fuzzy uniform structures and continuous t-norms. 1011-1021
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  Javier Gutiérrez García, Ulrich Höhle, María Angeles de Prada-Vicente:
  On lattice-valued frames: The completely distributive case. 1022-1030

Book Review

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  Michel Grabisch:
  A review on generalized measure theory, Zhenyuan Wang, George J. Klir. 1031-1032

Erratum

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  Ling-Xia Lu, Wei Yao:
  Correction to "On many-valued stratified L-fuzzy convergence spaces" [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 159 (2008) 2503-2519]. 1033-1038

Volume 161, Number 8, April 2010

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  Jian-Zhong Xiao, Ying Lu:
  Condensing operators and topological degree theory in standard fuzzy normed spaces. 1047-1063
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  Wolfgang Trutschnig:
  Characterization of the sendograph-convergence of fuzzy sets by means of their L_p- and levelwise convergence. 1064-1077
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  Jesús Rodríguez-López, Salvador Romaguera, José Manuel Sánchez-Álvarez:
  The Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-metric. 1078-1096
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  Rekha Srivastava, Amit Kumar Singh:
  A note on α- and α^*-Hausdorffness. 1097-1104
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  Yueli Yue, Fu-Gui Shi:
  On fuzzy pseudo-metric spaces. 1105-1116
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  Gabjin Yun, Seungsu Hwang, Jeongwook Chang:
  Fuzzy Lipschitz maps and fixed point theorems in fuzzy metric spaces. 1117-1130
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  Dorel Mihet:
  A class of contractions in fuzzy metric spaces. 1131-1137
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  Ioan Golet:
  On generalized fuzzy normed spaces and coincidence point theorems. 1138-1144

Correspondence

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  Akbar Azam, Muhammad Arshad:
  A note on "Fixed point theorems for fuzzy mappings" by P. Vijayaraju and M. Marudai. 1145-1149

Erratum

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  Dorel Mihet:
  Erratum to "Fuzzy psi-contractive mappings in non-Archimedean fuzzy metric spaces revisited [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 159 (2008) 739-744]". 1150-1151

Volume 161, Number 9, May 2010

Editorial

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  Stephen Ernest Rodabaugh, Lawrence Neff Stout, Erich-Peter Klement:
  Editorial. 1161

Categorical and Logical Foundations

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  Lawrence Neff Stout:
  When does a category built on a lattice with a monoidal structure have a monoidal structure? 1162-1174
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  Steven Vickers:
  Fuzzy sets and geometric logic. 1175-1204
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  Dexue Zhang:
  Implication structures, fuzzy subsets, and enriched categories. 1205-1223

Foundations of Topology

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  Mustafa Demirci:
  Pointed semi-quantales and lattice-valued topological spaces. 1224-1241
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  Jinming Fang, Yueli Yue:
  L-fuzzy closure systems. 1242-1252
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  S. E. Rodabaugh:
  Necessity of non-stratified and anti-stratified spaces in lattice-valued topology. 1253-1269
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  Sergey A. Solovyov:
  From quantale algebroids to topological spaces: Fixed- and variable-basis approaches. 1270-1287

Applications of Lattice-Valued Mathematics

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  Jelena Ignjatovic, Miroslav Ciric, Stojan Bogdanovic, Tatjana Petkovic:
  Myhill-Nerode type theory for fuzzy languages and automata. 1288-1324
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  Ewa Orlowska, Ingrid Rewitzky:
  Algebras for Galois-style connections and their discrete duality. 1325-1342
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  John Harding, Carol L. Walker, Elbert A. Walker:
  Convex normal functions revisited. 1343-1349
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  Siegfried Weber:
  A complete characterization of all weakly additive measures and of all valuations on the canonical extension of any finite MV-chain. 1350-1367

Volume 161, Number 10, May 2010

Implications

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  Margarita Mas, Miquel Monserrat, Joan Torrens:
  A characterization of (U, N), RU, QL and D-implications derived from uninorms satisfying the law of importation. 1369-1387
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  Yun Shi, Bart Van Gasse, Da Ruan, Etienne E. Kerre:
  On dependencies and independencies of fuzzy implication axioms. 1388-1405
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  Michal Baczynski:
  On the distributivity of fuzzy implications over continuous and Archimedean triangular conorms. 1406-1419

Aggregation functions

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  Tomasa Calvo, Gleb Beliakov:
  Aggregation functions based on penalties. 1420-1436
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  Gleb Beliakov, Tomasa Calvo, Simon James:
  On Lipschitz properties of generated aggregation functions. 1437-1447

Triangular norms

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  Peter Viceník:
  On a class of generated triangular norms and their isomorphisms. 1448-1458

Non-additive set-functions

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  Fabio Cuzzolin:
  The geometry of consonant belief functions: Simplicial complexes of necessity measures. 1459-1479
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  Josefa Caballero, Kishin B. Sadarangani:
  Chebyshev inequality for Sugeno integrals. 1480-1487

Volume 161, Number 11, June 2010

Industrial Engineering

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  Yuh-Wen Chen, Moussa Larbani, Chen-Hao Liu:
  Simulation of a supply chain game with multiple fuzzy goals. 1489-1510
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  S. Ali Torabi, M. Ebadian, R. Tanha:
  Fuzzy hierarchical production planning (with a case study). 1511-1529
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  Francisco Campuzano, Josefa Mula, David Peidro:
  Fuzzy estimations and system dynamics for improving supply chains. 1530-1542

Scheduling

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  Seyda Topaloglu, Hasan Selim:
  Nurse scheduling using fuzzy modeling approach. 1543-1563

Fuzzy intervals

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  Luciano Stefanini:
  A generalization of Hukuhara difference and division for interval and fuzzy arithmetic. 1564-1584
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  Ondrej Pavlacka, Jana Talasová:
  Fuzzy vectors as a tool for modeling uncertain multidimensional quantities. 1585-1603
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  Jaroslav Ramík, Petr Korviny:
  Inconsistency of pair-wise comparison matrix with fuzzy elements based on geometric mean. 1604-1613

Game Theory

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  Xiaohui Yu, Qiang Zhang:
  An extension of cooperative fuzzy games. 1614-1634

Volume 161, Number 12, June 2010

Automata Theory

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  Lihua Wu, Daowen Qiu:
  Automata theory based on complete residuated lattice-valued logic: Reduction and minimization. 1635-1656
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  Fei Wang, Zuren Feng, Ping Jiang:
  Reliable decentralized supervisory control of fuzzy discrete event systems. 1657-1668

Formal Concept Analysis

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  Partha Ghosh, Krishna Kundu, Debasis Sarkar:
  Fuzzy graph representation of a fuzzy concept lattice. 1669-1675

Algebra

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  Remigijus Petras Gylys:
  Effectible residuated lattices and n-th roots. 1676-1698
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  Jorge Jiménez Meana, Susana Montes, Branimir Seselja, Andreja Tepavcevic:
  On lattice valued up-sets and down-sets. 1699-1710

Fuzzy sets on algebraic structures

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  Yao-Long Li, Guo-Jun Zhang, Ling-Xia Lu:
  Axioms for bases of closed regular fuzzy matroids. 1711-1725
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  Magdaléna Rencová:
  A generalization of probability theory on MV-algebras to IF-events. 1726-1739
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  H. V. Kumbhojkar:
  Spectrum of prime L-fuzzy h-ideals of a hemiring. 1740-1749

Book review

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  Alejandro Sobrino:
  R. Seising (Ed.), Views on Fuzzy Sets and Systems from Different Perspectives, Philosophy and Logic, Criticisms and Applications Springer Verlag Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Volume 243, 2009, XL, 580pp, 113 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-93801-9. 1750-1753

Volume 161, Number 13, July 2010

Clustering

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  Qing Song, XuLei Yang, Yeng Chai Soh, Zhimin Wang:
  An information-theoretic fuzzy C-spherical shells clustering algorithm. 1755-1773
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  Roelof K. Brouwer, Albert A. Groenwold:
  Modified fuzzy c-means for ordinal valued attributes with particle swarm for optimization. 1774-1789
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  Huaxiang Zhang, Jing Lu:
  Creating ensembles of classifiers via fuzzy clustering and deflection. 1790-1802

Neural networks

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  Seok-Beom Roh, Tae-Chon Ahn, Witold Pedrycz:
  The design methodology of radial basis function neural networks based on fuzzy K-nearest neighbors approach. 1803-1822
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  R. Rakkiyappan, Pagavathigounder Balasubramaniam:
  On exponential stability results for fuzzy impulsive neural networks. 1823-1835

Fuzzy rule-based Systems

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  José Luis Aznarte, Marcelo C. Medeiros, José Manuel Benítez:
  Linearity testing for fuzzy rule-based models. 1836-1851

Forecasting

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  Sheng-Tun Li, Shu-Ching Kuo, Yi-Chung Cheng, Chih-Chuan Chen:
  Deterministic vector long-term forecasting for fuzzy time series. 1852-1870

Decision tables

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  Degang Chen, Suyun Zhao:
  Local reduction of decision system with fuzzy rough sets. 1871-1883

Volume 161, Number 14, July 2010

Inconsistency Management

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  Mihir K. Chakraborty, Soma Dutta:
  Graded consequence revisited. 1885-1905
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