Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Volume 160

Volume 160, Number 1, January 2009

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  Prabhakar Akella:
  C-sets of n-uninorms. 1-21
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  Zhudeng Wang, Jin-xuan Fang:
  Residual operations of left and right uninorms on a complete lattice. 22-31
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  Funda Karaçal, Yasemin Sagiroglu:
  Infinitely OR -distributive t-norms on complete lattices and pseudo-complements. 32-43
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  Koen Maes, Bernard De Baets:
  Rotation-invariant t-norms: The rotation invariance property revisited. 44-51
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  Roger B. Nelsen, José Juan Quesada-Molina, José Antonio Rodríguez-Lallena, Manuel Úbeda-Flores:
  Kendall distribution functions and associative copulas. 52-57
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  Radko Mesiar, Yao Ouyang:
  General Chebyshev type inequalities for Sugeno integrals. 58-64
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  Gleb Beliakov:
  Construction of aggregation functions from data using linear programming. 65-75
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  Azene Zenebe, Anthony F. Norcio:
  Representation, similarity measures and aggregation methods using fuzzy sets for content-based recommender systems. 76-94
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  Bernhard Moser:
  On the compactness of admissible transformations of fuzzy partitions in terms of T-equivalence relations. 95-106
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  Hong-Ying Zhang, Wen-Xiu Zhang:
  Hybrid monotonic inclusion measure and its use in measuring similarity and distance between fuzzy sets. 107-118
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  Kun-Lun Zhang, Dong-Hai Li, Li-Xia Song:
  On finite relation equations with sup-conjunctor composition over a complete lattice. 119-128

Volume 160, Number 2, January 2009

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  Antonio Fernández-Caballero:
  Contribution of fuzziness and uncertainty to modern artificial intelligence. 129
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  Jesús Medina, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Jorge Ruiz-Calviño:
  Formal concept analysis via multi-adjoint concept lattices. 130-144
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  Eyal Kolman, Michael Margaliot:
  Extracting symbolic knowledge from recurrent neural networks - A fuzzy logic approach. 145-161
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  Pascual Julián, Ginés Moreno, Jaime Penabad:
  An improved reductant calculus using fuzzy partial evaluation techniques. 162-181
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  José Francisco Vélez, Ángel Sánchez, Ana Belén Moreno, Jose L. Esteban:
  Fuzzy shape-memory snakes for the automatic off-line signature verification problem. 182-197
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  Agnès Rico, Olivier Strauss, Denis Mariano-Goulart:
  Choquet integrals as projection operators for quantified tomographic reconstruction. 198-211
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  Eyke Hüllermeier, Michael M. Richter, Rosina Weber:
  Prelude to the papers "Fuzzy case based reasoning for facial expression recognition" and "Temporal similarity by measuring possibilistic uncertainty in CBR". 212-213
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  José M. Juárez, Francisco Guil, José T. Palma, Roque Marín:
  Temporal similarity by measuring possibilistic uncertainty in CBR. 214-230
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  Aasia Khanum, Muid Mufti, Muhammad Younus Javed, M. Zubair Shafiq:
  Fuzzy case-based reasoning for facial expression recognition. 231-250
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  Azzurra Ragone, Umberto Straccia, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini:
  Fuzzy matchmaking in e-marketplaces of peer entities using Datalog. 251-268
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  R. D. Rodrigues, A. J. O. Cruz, R. T. Cavalcante:
  Aliança: A proposal for a fuzzy database architecture incorporating XML. 269-279

Volume 160, Number 3, February 2009

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  Erich-Peter Klement, Radko Mesiar:
  Editorial. 291
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  Romano Scozzafava, Barbara Vantaggi:
  Fuzzy inclusion and similarity through coherent conditional probability. 292-305
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  Giulianella Coletti, Barbara Vantaggi:
  T-conditional possibilities: Coherence and inference. 306-324
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  Fabio Spizzichino:
  A concept of duality for multivariate exchangeable survival models. 325-333
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  Elisabetta Alvoni, Pier Luigi Papini, Fabio Spizzichino:
  On a class of transformations of copulas and quasi-copulas. 334-343
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  Ana Colubi:
  Statistical inference about the means of fuzzy random variables: Applications to the analysis of fuzzy- and real-valued data. 344-356
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  Gil González-Rodríguez, Ángela Blanco-Fernández, Ana Colubi, María Asunción Lubiano:
  Estimation of a simple linear regression model for fuzzy random variables. 357-370
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  Siegfried Weber:
  Uncertainty measures - Problems concerning additivity. 371-383
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  Diego A. Alvarez:
  A Monte Carlo-based method for the estimation of lower and upper probabilities of events using infinite random sets of indexable type. 384-401

Volume 160, Number 4, February 2009

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  Bing Chen, Xiaoping Liu, Chong Lin, Kefu Liu:
  Robust H_infinity control of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems with state and input time delays. 403-422
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  Jun Yang, Shouming Zhong, Lianglin Xiong:
  A descriptor system approach to non-fragile H_∞ control for uncertain fuzzy neutral systems. 423-438
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  C. J. B. Macnab:
  Preventing bursting in approximate-adaptive control when using local basis functions. 439-462
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  Tung-Sheng Chiang, Chian-Song Chiu, Peter Liu:
  Fuzzy output regulator design of discrete affine systems with multiple time-varying delays. 463-481
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  Jiuxiang Dong, Guang-Hong Yang:
  Dynamic output feedback H_∞ control synthesis for discrete-time T-S fuzzy systems via switching fuzzy controllers. 482-499
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  Ginalber L. O. Serra, Celso Pascoli Bottura:
  Fuzzy instrumental variable approach for nonlinear discrete-time systems identification in a noisy environment. 500-520
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  Guomin Li, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi:
  Fuzzy looperless tension control for hot strip rolling. 521-536
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  C. Wakabayashi, Marcelo Embiruçu, Cristiano Hora Fontes, Ricardo Kalid:
  Fuzzy control of a nylon polymerization semi-batch reactor. 537-553
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  Mahdi Hamzeh, Hamid Reza Mahdiani, Ahmad Saghafi, Sied Mehdi Fakhraie, Caro Lucas:
  Computationally efficient active rule detection method: Algorithm and architecture. 554-568

Volume 160, Number 5, March 2009

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  Toly Chen, Yi-Chi Wang:
  A fuzzy set approach for evaluating and enhancing the mid-term competitiveness of a semiconductor factory. 569-585
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  Shian-Jong Chuu:
  Group decision-making model using fuzzy multiple attributes analysis for the evaluation of advanced manufacturing technology. 586-602
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  Yucheng Dong, Yinfeng Xu, Shui Yu:
  Linguistic multiperson decision making based on the use of multiple preference relations. 603-623
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  Nobusumi Sagara, Milan Vlach:
  Representation of preference relations on sigma-algebras of nonatomic measure spaces: Convexity and continuity. 624-634
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  Dan Butnariu, Tomás Kroupa:
  Enlarged cores and bargaining schemes in games with fuzzy coalitions. 635-643
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  Yan-An Hwang, Yu-Hsien Liao:
  The consistent value of fuzzy games. 644-656
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  Moussa Larbani:
  Solving bimatrix games with fuzzy payoffs by introducing Nature as a third player. 657-666
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  Adam Kasperski, Michal Kulej:
  Choosing robust solutions in discrete optimization problems with fuzzy costs. 667-682
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  Jiafu Tang, Zhendong Pan, Richard Y. K. Fung, Henry C. W. Lau:
  Vehicle routing problem with fuzzy time windows. 683-695
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  Fu-Gui Shi:
  A new approach to the fuzzification of matroids. 696-705

Volume 160, Number 6, March 2009

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  Anna Kolesárová, Koen Maes:
  Selected papers from AGOP 2007, the Fourth International Summer School on Aggregation Operators. 715-716
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  José Antonio Rodríguez-Lallena, Manuel Úbeda-Flores:
  Some new characterizations and properties of quasi-copulas. 717-725
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  Jana Kalická:
  On some construction methods for 1-Lipschitz aggregation functions. 726-732
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  Bernard De Baets, Hans E. De Meyer, Susana Díaz:
  On an idempotent transformation of aggregation functions and its application on absolutely continuous Archimedean copulas. 733-751
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  Bernard De Baets, Hans E. De Meyer, Jana Kalická, Radko Mesiar:
  Flipping and cyclic shifting of binary aggregation functions. 752-765
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  Humberto Bustince Sola, Javier Montero, Radko Mesiar:
  Migrativity of aggregation functions. 766-777
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  Glad Deschrijver:
  Characterizations of (weakly) Archimedean t-norms in interval-valued fuzzy set theory. 778-801
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  Yasuo Narukawa, Vicenç Torra:
  Multidimensional generalized fuzzy integral. 802-815
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  Anna Kolesárová, Radko Mesiar:
  Parametric characterization of aggregation functions. 816-831
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  Daniel Ruiz-Aguilera, Joan Torrens:
  S- and R-implications from uninorms continuous in ]0, 1[² and their distributivity over uninorms. 832-852

Regular section

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  Jean Dezert, Arnaud Martin, Florentin Smarandache:
  Comments on "A new combination of evidence based on compromise" by K. Yamada. 853-855

Volume 160, Number 7, April 2009

Fuzzy rule-based modeling

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  Alexandre G. Evsukoff, Sylvie Galichet, Beatriz S. L. P. de Lima, Nelson F. F. Ebecken:
  Design of interpretable fuzzy rule-based classifiers using spectral analysis with structure and parameters optimization. 857-881
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  Gerasimos G. Rigatos, Q. Zhang:
  Fuzzy model validation using the local statistical approach. 882-904

Data mining

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  Jesús Alcalá-Fdez, Rafael Alcalá, María José Gacto, Francisco Herrera:
  Learning the membership function contexts for mining fuzzy association rules by using genetic algorithms. 905-921

Neurofuzzy systems

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  Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli, Mohammad Teshnehlab, Ali Khaki-Sedigh:
  Training ANFIS as an identifier with intelligent hybrid stable learning algorithm based on particle swarm optimization and extended Kalman filter. 922-948
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  Ching-Hung Lee, Hung-Yi Pan:
  Performance enhancement for neural fuzzy systems using asymmetric membership functions. 949-971
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  Xingsheng Deng, Xinzhou Wang:
  Incremental learning of dynamic fuzzy neural networks for accurate system modeling. 972-987

Regression

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  Shaoqing Xu, Qiang-Yi Luo, Guang-Hui Xu, Lei Zhang:
  Asymmetrical interval regression using extended epsilon-SVM with robust algorithm. 988-1002

Volume 160, Number 8, April 2009

Special section: formal methods for fuzzy mathematics, approximation and reasoning, part II

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  Vilém Novák, Irina Perfilieva, Libor Behounek, Petr Cintula:
  Formal methods for fuzzy mathematics, approximation and reasoning - Part II. 1003-1004
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  Libor Behounek, Martina Danková:
  Relational compositions in Fuzzy Class Theory. 1005-1036
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  Martin Stepnicka, Ondrej Polakovic:
  A neural network approach to the fuzzy transform. 1037-1047
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  Jaroslav Hancl, Ladislav Misík, János T. Tóth:
  Fuzzy rational approximation of irrationals. 1048-1053

Fuzzy relations|Fuzzy relations

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  Miroslav Ciric, Jelena Ignjatovic, Stojan Bogdanovic:
  Uniform fuzzy relations and fuzzy functions. 1054-1081

Algebra

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  Roberto Giuntini, Hector Freytes, Antonio Ledda, Francesco Paoli:
  A discriminator variety of Gödel algebras with operators arising in quantum computation. 1082-1098
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  Lavinia Corina Ciungu:
  Algebras on subintervals of pseudo-hoops. 1099-1113
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  Irina Cristea:
  Hyperstructures and fuzzy sets endowed with two membership functions. 1114-1124

Automata theory and formal languages

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  Hongyan Xing, Daowen Qiu, Fuchun Liu:
  Automata theory based on complete residuated lattice-valued logic: Pushdown automata. 1125-1140
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  Hongyan Xing, Daowen Qiu:
  Pumping lemma in context-free grammar theory based on complete residuated lattice-valued logic. 1141-1151
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  Xiuhong Guo:
  Grammar theory based on lattice-ordered monoid. 1152-1161

Logic programming

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  Dusan Guller:
  On the refutational completeness of signed binary resolution and hyperresolution. 1162-1176

Volume 160, Number 9, May 2009

Topology

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  Andrew Craig, Gunther Jäger:
  A common framework for lattice-valued uniform spaces and probabilistic uniform limit spaces. 1177-1203
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  Lingqiang Li, Dexue Zhang:
  On the relationship between limit spaces, many valued topological spaces, and many valued preorders. 1204-1217
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  Fu-Gui Shi:
  L-fuzzy interiors and L-fuzzy closures. 1218-1232
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  Wei Yao, Ling-Xia Lu:
  Analogizing Hutton's quasi-uniformities for complete lattices and extending Shi's quasi-uniformities to closed set lattices. 1233-1244
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  Hua-Peng Zhang, Jin-Xuan Fang:
  New definition of locally convex L-topological vector spaces. 1245-1255
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  Jian-Zhong Xiao, Xing-Hua Zhu:
  Conjugate topology of pointwise metric molecular lattices. 1256-1266
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  Jian-Zhong Xiao, Xing-Hua Zhu:
  Metric topology on the L-fuzzy real line. 1267-1276
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  Ildar Sadeqi, M. Salehi:
  Fuzzy compact operators and topological degree theory. 1277-1285

Non-additive measures and integrals

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  Enrique Miranda:
  Updating coherent previsions on finite spaces. 1286-1307
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  Alina Gavrilut:
  Non-atomicity and the Darboux property for fuzzy and non-fuzzy Borel/Baire multivalued set functions. 1308-1317
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  Roee Teper:
  On the continuity of the concave integral. 1318-1326
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  Jun Kawabe:
  Continuity and compactness of the indirect product of two non-additive measures. 1327-1333

Volume 160, Number 10, May 2009

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  Isabelle Bloch, Alfredo Petrosino, Andrea Tettamanzi:
  Fuzzy sets in interdisciplinary perception and intelligence. 1339-1340
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  Jérôme Fortin, Adam Kasperski, Pawel Zielinski:
  Some methods for evaluating the optimality of elements in matroids with ill-known weights. 1341-1354
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  Didier Dubois, Henri Prade:
  An overview of the asymmetric bipolar representation of positive and negative information in possibility theory. 1355-1366
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  Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva:
  Gradual trust and distrust in recommender systems. 1367-1382
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  Célia da Costa Pereira, Andrea Tettamanzi:
  Reasoning about actions with imprecise and incomplete state descriptions. 1383-1401
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  Ginés Moreno, Vicente Pascual:
  A hybrid programming scheme combining fuzzy-logic and functional-logic resources. 1402-1419
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  Andrea Bonarini, Alessandro Lazaric, Francesco Montrone, Marcello Restelli:
  Reinforcement distribution in fuzzy Q-learning. 1420-1443
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  Guido Sangiovanni:
  Definition of fuzzy logic rules representing finite element method experts' reasoning. 1444-1456
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  Hassan Khotanlou, Olivier Colliot, Jamal Atif, Isabelle Bloch:
  3D brain tumor segmentation in MRI using fuzzy classification, symmetry analysis and spatially constrained deformable models. 1457-1473
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  Maurizio Cardaci, Vito Di Gesù, Maria Petrou, Marco Elio Tabacchi:
  A fuzzy approach to the evaluation of image complexity. 1474-1484
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  Alfredo Petrosino, Alessio Ferone:
  Rough fuzzy set-based image compression. 1485-1506
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  Kerstin Schill, Christoph Zetzsche, Joana Hois:
  A belief-based architecture for scene analysis: From sensorimotor features to knowledge and ontology. 1507-1516

Volume 160, Number 11, June 2009

Analysis

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  Yurilev Chalco-Cano, Heriberto Román-Flores:
  Comparation between some approaches to solve fuzzy differential equations. 1517-1527
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  Zengtai Gong, Yabin Shao:
  The controlled convergence theorems for the strong Henstock integrals of fuzzy-number-valued functions. 1528-1546
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  Vasile Lupulescu:
  On a class of fuzzy functional differential equations. 1547-1562
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  Dong Qiu, Lan Shu, Zhiwen Mo:
  On starshaped fuzzy sets. 1563-1577
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  Dong Qiu, Lan Shu, Zhiwen Mo:
  Notes on fuzzy complex analysis. 1578-1589

Fuzzy mappings

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  Zezhong Wu, Jiuping Xu:
  Generalized convex fuzzy mappings and fuzzy variational-like inequality. 1590-1619
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  Jin-Xuan Fang, Qiong-Yu Xue:
  Some properties of the space of fuzzy-valued continuous functions on a compact set. 1620-1631

Stability of functional equations

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  Choonkil Park:
  Fuzzy stability of a functional equation associated with inner product spaces. 1632-1642
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  Alireza Kamel Mirmostafaee, Mohammad Sal Moslehian:
  Stability of additive mappings in non-Archimedean fuzzy normed spaces. 1643-1652
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  Alireza Kamel Mirmostafaee:
  A fixed point approach to almost quartic mappings in quasi fuzzy normed spaces. 1653-1662
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  Dorel Mihet:
  The fixed point method for fuzzy stability of the Jensen functional equation. 1663-1667

Volume 160, Number 12, June 2009

Robust control

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  Li Li, Xiaodong Liu, Tianyou Chai:
  New approaches on H_infinity control of T-S fuzzy systems with interval time-varying delay. 1669-1688
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  Hongbin Zhang, Yanyan Shen, Gang Feng:
  Delay-dependent stability and H_infinity control for a class of fuzzy descriptor systems with time-delay. 1689-1707
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  Engang Tian, Dong Yue, Yijun Zhang:
  Delay-dependent robust H_infinity control for T-S fuzzy system with interval time-varying delay. 1708-1719
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  Baoyong Zhang, James Lam, Shengyuan Xu, Zhan Shu:
  Robust stabilization of uncertain T-S fuzzy time-delay systems with exponential estimates. 1720-1737
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  Jun Yoneyama:
  H_infinity filtering for fuzzy systems with immeasurable premise variables: An uncertain system approach. 1738-1748

Adaptive control

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  Shaocheng Tong, Yongming Li:
  Observer-based fuzzy adaptive control for strict-feedback nonlinear systems. 1749-1764

Applications

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  Chuan-Kai Lin:
  H_infinity reinforcement learning control of robot manipulators using fuzzy wavelet networks. 1765-1786
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  Zhijun Li, Chunquan Xu:
  Adaptive fuzzy logic control of dynamic balance and motion for wheeled inverted pendulums. 1787-1803
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  Shahin Salehi, Mohammad Shahrokhi:
  Adaptive fuzzy backstepping approach for temperature control of continuous stirred tank reactors. 1804-1818

Volume 160, Number 13, July 2009

Image processing

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  Humberto Bustince Sola, Edurne Barrenechea Tartas, Miguel Pagola, Javier Fernández:
  Interval-valued fuzzy sets constructed from matrices: Application to edge detection. 1819-1840
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  Hsiang-Chieh Chen, Wen-June Wang:
  Efficient impulse noise reduction via local directional gradients and fuzzy logic. 1841-1857
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  Isabelle Bloch:
  Duality vs. adjunction for fuzzy mathematical morphology and general form of fuzzy erosions and dilations. 1858-1867

Clustering

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  Carl G. Looney:
  Fuzzy connectivity clustering with radial basis kernel functions. 1868-1885
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  Yi-hong Dong, Shaoka Cao, Ken Chen, Maoshun He, Xiaoying Tai:
  PFHC: A clustering algorithm based on data partitioning for unevenly distributed datasets. 1886-1901

Applications of fuzzy logic

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  Edgard Jamhour, Manoel Camillo Penna, Ricardo Nabhen, Guy Pujolle:
  Modeling a multi-queue network node with a fuzzy predictor. 1902-1928

Robotics

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  Omid Reza Esmaeili Motlagh, Sai Hong Tang, Napsiah Ismail:
  Development of a new minimum avoidance system for a behavior-based mobile robot. 1929-1946

Human factors

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  Enrico Zio,