Overall Performance Evaluation of Tubular Scraper Conveyors Using a TOPSIS-Based Multiattribute Decision-Making Method

Properly evaluating the overall performance of tubular scraper conveyors (TSCs) can increase their overall efficiency and reduce economic investments, but such methods have rarely been studied. This study evaluated the overall performance of TSCs based on the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). Three conveyors of the same type produced in the same factory were investigated. Their scraper space, material filling coefficient, and vibration coefficient of the traction components were evaluated. A mathematical model of the multiattribute decision matrix was constructed; a weighted judgment matrix was obtained using the DELPHI method. The linguistic positive-ideal solution (LPIS), the linguistic negative-ideal solution (LNIS), and the distance from each solution to the LPIS and the LNIS, that is, the approximation degrees, were calculated. The optimal solution was determined by ordering the approximation degrees for each solution. The TOPSIS-based results were compared with the measurement results provided by the manufacturer. The ordering result based on the three evaluated parameters was highly consistent with the result provided by the manufacturer. The TOPSIS-based method serves as a suitable evaluation tool for the overall performance of TSCs. It facilitates the optimal deployment of TSCs for industrial purposes

A dynamic recommender system as reinforcement for personalized education by a fuzzly linguistic web system

Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2015)The seek of a personalized and quality education is the objective of Bologna process, but to carry out this task has a major economic impact. To soften this impact, one possible solution is to make use of recommender systems, which have already been introduced in several academic fields. In this paper, we present AyudasCBI, a novel fuzzy linguistic Web system that uses a recommender system to provide personalized activities to students to reinforce their individualized education. This system can be used in order to aid professors to provide students with a personalized monitoring of their studies with less effort. To prove the system, we conduct a study involving some students, aiming at measuring their performance. The results obtained proved to be satisfactory compared with the rest of the students who did not take part of the study.Projects TIC-5991 and TIN2013-40658-

A Linguistic Recommender System For University Digital Libraries To Help Users In Their Research Resources Accesses

The Web is one of the most important information media and it is influencing in the development of other media, as for example, newspapers, journals, books, libraries, etc. Moreover, in recent days people want to communicate and collaborate. So, libraries must develop services for connecting people together in information environments. Then, the library staff needs automatic techniques to facilitate that a great number of users can access to a great number of resources. Recommender systems are tools whose objective is to evaluate and filter the great amount of information available on the Web. We present a model of a fuzzy linguistic recommender system to help University Digital Library users in their research resources accesses. This system recommends researchers specialized and complementary resources in order to discover collaboration possibilities to form multi-disciplinaryy groups. In this way, this system increases social collaboration possibilities in a university framework and contributes to improve the services provided by a University Digital Library

A Linguistic Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model Applied to the Integration of Education Questionnaires

We present a model made up of linguistic multi-criteria decision making processes to integrate the answers to heterogeneous questionnaires, based on a five-point Likert scale, into a unique form rooted in the widespread course experience questionnaire. The main advantage of having the resulting integrated questionnaire is that it can be incorporated into other course experience questionnaire surveys to make benchmarking among organizations. This model has been applied to integrate heterogeneous educational questionnaires at the University of Granada.European Union (EU) TIN2010-17876Andalusian Excellence Projects TIC-05299 TIC-599

Diminishing Choquet Hesitant 2-Tuple Linguistic Aggregation Operator for Multiple Attributes Group Decision Making

In this article, we develop a diminishing hesitant 2-tuple averaging operator (DH2TA) for hesitant 2-tuple linguistic arguments. DH2TA work in the way that it aggregate all hesitant 2-tuple linguistic elements and during the aggregation process it also controls the hesitation in translation of the resultant aggregated linguistic term. We develop a scalar product for hesitant 2-tuple linguistic elements and based on the scalar product a weighted diminishing hesitant 2-tuple averaging operator (DWH2TA) is introduced. Moreover, combining Choquet integral with hesitant 2-tuple linguistic information, the diminishing Chouqet hesitant 2-tuple average operator (DCH2TA) is defined. The proposed operators higher reflect the correlations among the elements. After investigating the properties of these operators, a multiple attribute decision making method based on DCH2TA operator is proposed. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the significance and usefulness of proposed method

Mejoras en la usabilidad de la web a través de una estructura complementaria

La Web ha motivado la generación de herramientas que permiten, con distintos grados de sofisticación y precisión, manipular sus contenidos. Para ello, tratan una serie de problemas, relacionados con la naturaleza imperfecta y cambiante de todas las actividades humanas. Ésta se refleja en fenómenos como las ambigüedades, contradicciones y errores de los textos almacenados. Esta tesis presenta una propuesta para complementar la administración de contenidos en la Web y de esta manera facilitar el proceso de recuperación de información. Se presenta un prototipo, denominado Web Intelligent Handler (WIH), que implementa una serie de algoritmos básicos para manipular algunas características morfosintácticas de textos en castellano y, en base a ellas, obtener una representación resumida y alternativa de su contenido. En este contexto, se define una nueva métrica de ponderación para reflejar parte de la esencia morfosintáctica de los sintagmas. Además se define un esquema de interacción entre los módulos para regular la explotación de los textos. También se explora la capacidad de los algoritmos propuestos en el tratamiento de los textos, considerándolos como una colección de sintagmas, sujeta a factores tales como contradicciones, ambigüedades y errores. Otro aporte de esta tesis es la posibilidad de evaluar matemáticamente y de manera automática tipos de estilos de texto y perfiles de escritura. Se proponen los estilos literario, técnico y mensajes. También se proponen los perfiles documento, foro de intercambio, índice Web y texto de sitio blog. Se evalúan los tres estilos y los cuatro perfiles mencionados, los que se comportan como distintos grados de una escala de estilos y perfiles, respectivamente, cuando se los evalúa con la métrica morfosintáctica aquí definida. Adicionalmente, utilizando la misma métrica, es posible realizar una valoración aproximada y automática de la calidad de cualquier tipo de texto. Esta calificación resulta ser invariante a la cantidad de palabras, temática y perfil, pero relacionada con el estilo del escrito en cuestión.The Web motivated a set of tools for content handling with several levels of sophistication and precision. To do so, they deal with many unsolved problems in saved texts. All of them are related to the mutable and imperfect essence of human beings such as ambiguities, contradictions and misspellings. This theses presents a proposal to complement the Web content management and therefore to provide support to the information retrieval activity. A prototype named Web Intelligent Handler (WIH) is introduced to implement a set of algorithms that manage some morpho-syntactical features in Spanish texts. These features are also used to get a brief and alternate representation of its content. Within this framework, a new weighting metric is designed to reflect part of the syntagm morpho-syntactical essence. A module interaction approach is also outlined to rule the text processing output. Besides, this thesis analyzes the algorithms ability to handle texts considering them as a collection of syntagms affected by certain factors such as contradictions, ambiguities and misspellings. Perhaps, the main contribution of this thesis is the possibility to automatically mathematical evaluation of text styles and profiles. Three initial three styles are proposed here: literary, technical and message. Furthermore, the following writer profiles are proposed also: document, foro, Web-index and blog. All the three styles and four profiles were evaluated. They behave respectively as a part of a graduated scale of styles and profiles when the morpho-syntactical metric defined here is used. It is also possible to perform a kind of automatic rough text quality valuation. This is invariant to the text word quantity, topic and profile, but it is related to its style.Facultad de Informátic

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems c ○ World Scientific Publishing Company A Fuzzy Linguistic IRS Model Based on a 2-Tuple Fuzzy Linguistic Approach ∗

Information Retrieval Systems (IRSs) based on an ordinal fuzzy linguistic approach present some problems of loss of information and lack of precision when working with discrete linguistic expression domains or when applying approximation operations in the symbolic aggregation methods. In this paper, we present a new IRS model based on the 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic approach, which allows us to overcome the problems of ordinal fuzzy linguistic IRSs and improve their performance