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Aggregating Imprecise Linguistic Expressions
Producción CientÃficaIn this chapter, we propose a multi-person decision making procedure
where agents judge the alternatives through linguistic expressions generated by an
ordered finite scale of linguistic terms (for instance, ‘very good’, ‘good’, ‘acceptable’,
‘bad’, ‘very bad’). If the agents are not confident about their opinions, they
might use linguistic expressions composed by several consecutive linguistic terms
(for instance, ‘between acceptable and good’). The procedure we propose is based
on distances and it ranks order the alternatives taking into account the linguistic information
provided by the agents. The main features and properties of the proposal
are analyzed.Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2009-07332)Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2009-12836)Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2008-03204-E)Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2012-32178
Development of accident prediction model by using artificial neural network (ANN)
Statistical or crash prediction model have frequently been used in highway
safety studies. They can be used in identify major contributing factors or establish
relationship between crashes and explanatory accident variables. The
measurements to prevent accident are from the speed reduction, widening the
roads, speed enforcement, or construct the road divider, or other else. Therefore,
the purpose of this study is to develop an accident prediction model at federal road
FT 050 Batu Pahat to Kluang. The study process involves the identification of
accident blackspot locations, establishment of general patterns of accident, analysis
of the factors involved, site studies, and development of accident prediction model
using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) applied software which named
NeuroShell2. The significant of the variables that are selected from these accident
factors are checked to ensure the developed model can give a good prediction
results. The performance of neural network is evaluated by using the Mean
Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The study result showed that the best neural
network for accident prediction model at federal road FT 050 is 4-10-1 with 0.1
learning rate and 0.2 momentum rate. This network model contains the lowest
value of MAPE and highest value of linear correlation, r which is 0.8986. This
study has established the accident point weightage as the rank of the blackspot
section by kilometer along the FT 050 road (km 1 – km 103). Several main
accident factors also have been determined along this road, and after all the data
gained, it has successfully analyzed by using artificial neural network
Pembangunan dan penilaian modul berbantukan komputer bagi subjek pemasaran : Politeknik Port Dickson
Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan Modul Berbantukan Komputer (MBK) bagi
subjek Pemasaran. MBK ini dibangunkan dengan menggunakan pensian AutoPlay
Media dan Flash MX. Sampel kajian ini terdiri daripada 30 orang pelajar Diploma
Pemasaran di Politeknik Port Dickson. Data dikumpulkan melalui kaedah soal
selidik dan dianalisis berdasarkan kekerpan, peratusan dan skor min dengan
menggunakan perisian Statistical Package For Social Sciene (SPSS) versi 11.0.
Dapatan kajian menunjukkan penilaian terhadap pembagunan MBK di dalam proses
P&P adalah tinggi. Ini bermakna MBK ini sesuai digunakan di Politeknik Port
Dickson di dalam proses P&P
Aggregating opinions in non-uniform ordered qualitative scales
Producción CientÃficaThis paper introduces a new voting system in the setting of ordered qualitative scales. The process is conducted in a purely ordinal way by considering an ordinal proximity measure that assigns an ordinal degree of proximity to each pair of linguistic terms of the qualitative scale. Once the agents assess the alternatives through the qualitative scale, the alternatives are ranked according to the medians of the ordinal degrees of proximity between the obtained individual assessments and the highest linguistic term of the scale. Since some alternatives may share the same median, an appropriate tie-breaking procedure is introduced. Some properties of the proposed voting system have been provided.Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (Project ECO2016-77900-P
Allowing agents to be imprecise: A proposal using multiple linguistic terms
Producción CientÃficaIn this paper we propose a decision-making procedure where the agents judge the
alternatives through linguistic terms such as `very good', `good', `acceptable',
etc. If the agents are not con dent about their opinions, they can use a linguistic
expression formed by several consecutive linguistic terms. To obtain a ranking
on the set of alternatives, the method consists of three di erent stages. The rst
stage looks for the alternatives in which the overall opinion is closer to the ideal
assessment. The overall opinion is developed by a distance-based process among
the individual assessments. The next two stages form a tie-breaking process.
Firstly by using a dispersion index based on the Gini coe cient, and secondly by
taking into account the number of best-assessments. The main characteristics
of the proposed decision-making procedure are analyzed.Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2009-07332)Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2009-12836)Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2008-03204-E)Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (ECO2012-32178
Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers
Life in an increasingly information-rich but highly uncertain world calls for an effective means of communicating uncertainty to a range of audiences. Senders prefer to convey uncertainty using verbal (e.g. likely) rather than numeric (e.g. 75% chance) probabilities, even in consequential domains such as climate science. However, verbal probabilities can convey something other than uncertainty, and senders may exploit this. For instance, senders can maintain credibility after making erroneous predictions. While verbal probabilities afford ease of expression, they can be easily misunderstood, and the potential for miscommunication is not effectively mitigated by assigning (imprecise) numeric probabilities to words. When making consequential decisions, recipients prefer (precise) numeric probabilities
Assigning Numerical Scores to Linguistic Expressions
Producción CientÃficaIn this paper, we study different methods of scoring linguistic expressions defined on a
finite set, in the search for a linear order that ranks all those possible expressions. Among them,
particular attention is paid to the canonical extension, and its representability through distances in a graph plus some suitable penalization of imprecision. The relationship between this setting and the classical problems of numerical representability of orderings, as well as extension of orderings from a set to a superset is also explored. Finally, aggregation procedures of qualitative rankings and scorings are also analyzed.Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad (Projects ECO2015-65031-R, MTM2015-63608-P, ECO2016-77900-P and TIN2016-77356-P)European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)Research Services of the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain
Using Multi-granular Fuzzy Linguistic Modelling Methods to Represent Social Networks Related Information in an Organized Way
Social networks are the preferred mean for experts to share their knowledge and provide information.
Therefore, it is one of the best sources that can be used for obtaining data that can
be used for a high amount of purposes. For instance, determining social needs, identifying problems,
getting opinions about certain topics, ... Nevertheless, this kind of information is difficult
for a computational system to interpret due to the fact that the text is presented in free form and
that the information that represents is imprecise. In this paper, a novel method for extracting information from social networks and represent it in a fuzzy ontology is presented. Sentiment analysis
procedures are used in order to extract information from free text. Moreover, multi-granular
fuzzy linguistic modelling methods are used for converting the information into the most suitable
representation mean.This work has been supported by the ’Juan de la Cierva Incorporación’ grant from the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and by the Grant from the FEDER funds provided by the
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (No. TIN2016-75850-R)
Current state of existing project risk modeling and analysis methods with focus on fuzzy risk assessment – Literature Review
Risk modeling and analysis is one of the most important stages in project success. There are many approaches for risk assessment and an investigation of existing methods helps in developing new models . This paper is an extensive literature survey in risk modeling and analysis methods with main focus on fuzzy risk assessment
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