Advances in Intelligent Systems - Startseite...Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 195 Editor-in-Chief Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of

Advances in Intelligent Systemsand Computing 195

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Janusz KacprzykSystems Research InstitutePolish Academy of Sciencesul. Newelska 601-447 WarsawPolandE-mail: [email protected]

For further volumes:http://www.springer.com/series/11156

Valentina Emilia Balas, János Fodor,Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy, József Dombi,and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.)

Soft Computing Applications

Proceedings of the 5th International WorkshopSoft Computing Applications (SOFA)

ABC

EditorsProf. Valentina Emilia BalasAssociate ProfessorAurel Vlaicu University from AradAradRomania

Prof. János FodorProfessorInstitute of Applied MathematicsÓbuda UniversityBudapestHungary

Prof. Annamária R. Várkonyi-KóczyProfessorInstitute of Mechatronics and VehicleEngineeringObuda UniversityBudapestHungary

Prof. József DombiDepartment of InformaticsUniversity of SzegedSzegedHungary

Prof. Lakhmi C. JainSchool of Electrical and InformationEngineeringUniversity of South AustraliaAdelaideSouth Australia SAAustralia

ISSN 2194-5357 e-ISSN 2194-5365ISBN 978-3-642-33940-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-33941-7DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33941-7Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012949235

c© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of thematerial is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broad-casting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storageand retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now knownor hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviewsor scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on acomputer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or partsthereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its cur-rent version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may beobtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution underthe respective Copyright Law.The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoes not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevantprotective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication,neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors oromissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the materialcontained herein.

Printed on acid-free paper

Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on SoftComputing Applications (SOFA 2012). The main goal of the Workshop is to com-municate and publish new theoretical and applicative research results, in the areas ofFuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, and other methods belongingor connected to Soft Computing (SC). A second and just as important goal is to encour-age new reflections on SC issues and new links between interested researchers, R&Dengineers, managers and so on.

The concept of Soft Computing - which was introduced by Lotfi Zadeh in1991 - serves to highlight the emergence of computing methodologies in which the ac-cent is on exploiting the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty to achieve tractability,robustness and low solution cost. The principal constituents of soft computing are fuzzylogic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing and probabilistic computing, with thelater subsuming belief networks, chaotic systems and parts of learning theory. Soft com-puting facilitates the use of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing andprobabilistic computing in combination, leading to the concept of hybrid intelligentsystems. Such systems are rapidly growing in importance and visibility.

Nowadays in our complex world all problems cannot be dealt with conventionalmathematical methods. With the help of soft computing techniques, that offer comple-mentary methods allowing flexible computing tools, it is possible to find good solutions.

The book covers a broad spectrum of soft computing techniques, theoretical andpractical applications employing knowledge and intelligence to find solutions for worldindustrial, economic and medical problems. The combination of such intelligent sys-tems tools and a large number of applications introduce a need for a synergy of scientificand technological disciplines in order to show the great potential of Soft Computing inall domains.

The conference papers included in these proceedings, published post conference,were grouped into the following area of research:

• Soft Computing and Fusion Algorithms in Biometrics,• Fuzzy Theory, Control andApplications,• Modelling and Control Applications,• Steps towards Intelligent Circuits,

VI Preface

• Knowledge-Based Technologies for Web Applications, Cloud Computing andSecurity Algorithms,

• Computational Intelligence for Biomedical Applications,• Neural Networks and Applications,• Intelligent Systems for Image Processing,• Knowledge Management for Business Process and Enterprise Modelling.

In SOFA 2012 we had five eminent Keynote Speakers: Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh(USA), Professor Michio Sugeno (JAPAN), Professor Kay Chen Tan (Singapore),Professor Michal Baczynski (Poland) and Professor Laszlo B. Kish (USA). Theirsummaries or extended talks are included in this book.

The book is directed to all interested readers to evaluate to potential of Soft Com-puting: researchers in laboratories and universities interested to solve real problems,managers looking for tools and new views to improve their business.

We especially thank the honorary chair of SOFA 2012 Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh whoencouraged and motivated us. He participated actively in our workshop of this editionby sending us an interesting video tape lecture.

Special thanks to Professor Michio Sugeno who showed a constant support duringall these years by participating to the last four SOFA editions.

We would like to thank the authors of the submitted papers for keeping the qualityof the SOFA 2012 conference at high levels. The editors of this book would like toacknowledge all the authors for their contributions and also the reviewers.

For their help with organizational issues of all SOFA editions we express our thanksto TRIVENT Conference Office, Mónika Jetzin and Teodora Artimon for having cus-tomized the software Conference Manager, registration of conference participants andall local arrangements.

Special thanks go to Janusz Kacprzyk (Editor in Chief, Springer, Advances in In-telligent and Soft ComputingSeries) for the opportunity to organize this guest editedvolume.

We are grateful to Springer, especially to Dr. Thomas Ditzinger (Senior Editor,Applied Sciences & Engineering Springer-Verlag) for the excellent collaboration andpatience during the evolvement of this volume.

We hope that the readers will find this collection of papers inspiring, informative anduseful. We also hope to see you at a future SOFA event.

Valentina Emilia Balas, RomaniaJános C. Fodor, Hungary

Annamaria R. Várkonyi-Kóczy, HungaryJózsef Dombi, Hungary

Lakhmi C. Jain, Australia

Contents

Keynote Invited Talks

Outline of a Restriction-Centered Theory of Reasoning and Computationin an Environment of Uncertainty, Imprecision and Partiality of Truth(Video Tape Lecture) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Lotfi A. Zadeh

On Structure of Uncertainties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Michio Sugeno

Advances in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Kay Chen Tan

On the Applications of Fuzzy Implication Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Michał Baczyński

Information Theoretic Security by the Laws of Classical Physics(Plenary Paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11R. Mingesz, L.B. Kish, Z. Gingl, C.G. Granqvist, H. Wen, F. Peper, T. Eubanks,G. Schmera

Soft Computing and Fusion Algorithms in Biometrics

The Biometric Menagerie – A Fuzzy and InconsistentConcept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin, Valentina Emilia Balas, Iulia Maria Motoc

A Multi-algorithmic Colour Iris Recognition System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Petru Radu, Konstantinos Sirlantzis, Gareth Howells, Sanaul Hoque,Farzin Deravi

VIII Contents

Examples of Artificial Perceptions in Optical Character Recognitionand Iris Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Cristina Madalina Noaica, Robert Badea, Iulia Maria Motoc,Claudiu Gheorghe Ghica, Alin Cristian Rosoiu, Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin

Noise Influence on the Fuzzy-Linguistic Partitioning of Iris Code Space . . . . 71Iulia Maria Motoc, Cristina Madalina Noaica, Robert Badea,Claudiu Gheorghe Ghica

Fuzzy Theory, Control and Applications

Excluded Middle and Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Dragan G. Radojević

Models for Ranking Students: Selecting Applicants for a Masterof Science Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Pavle Milošević, Ivan Nešić, Ana Poledica, Dragan G. Radojević,Bratislav Petrović

Modeling Candlestick Patterns with Interpolative Boolean Algebrafor Investment Decision Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Ivan Nešić, Pavle Milošević, Aleksandar Rakicevic, Bratislav Petrović,Dragan G. Radojević

Using Fuzzy Logic to Determine If the Traffic Is Constant or Not in DTFMethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Emanuel Ciprian Sasu, Octavian Prostean

Design an Optimal Fuzzy PID Controller for Herbal Machine Harvesterwith Gripping-Belt Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Behnam Yavari, Seyed Hamidreza Abbasi, Faridoon Shabaninia

Comparative Study between Tank’s Water Level Control Using PIDand Fuzzy Logic Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Davood Mohammadi Souran, Seyed Hamidreza Abbasi,Faridoon Shabaninia

Design of MIMO Mamdani Fuzzy Logic Controllers for Wall FollowingMobile Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Nasim Paykari, Seyed Hamidreza Abbasi, Faridoon Shabaninia

The Single-Allocation Hierarchical Hub-Median Problem with FuzzyFlows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Soheil Davari, Mohammad Hossein Fazel Zarandi

Contents IX

Modelling and Control Applications

Experimental Application of a Pragmatic Method to Design ControlStrategy for Low Power Wind Energy Conversion System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Radu Boraci, Cristian Vasar

Model Predictive Control for Inside Temperature of an Energy EfficientBuilding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Cosmin Koch-Ciobotaru

Optimization of the Power Transfer Control between the Portsof a Double Bridge DC – DC Power Converter Type Gyrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Ildiko Tatai, Marian Greconici

Maximization of the Energy and Flattening of Fluctuations for the PowerGenerated into the Network at a Wind Drived Electro Energetic System . . . 217Ovidiu Gana, Octavian Prostean, Marius Babescu

A Brief Outline of Computational Limitations on Actual Wireless SensorNetworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Gabriel Gîrban, Mircea Popa

The Quality of Following the Welding Path with Arc Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251Gheorghe Sima

Modeling of the Electric Arc Behavior of the Electric Arc Furnace . . . . . . . . 261Manuela Panoiu, Caius Panoiu, Loredana Ghiormez

Live Steam Temperature Control Loop for 1035 t/h Benson Boiler . . . . . . . . 273Onisifor Olaru, Marius Bîzgă

Dynamic Modeling and Computer Simulation of 3D Objects Grasping . . . . . 283Rim Boughdiri, Hala Bezine, Nacer K. M’Sirdi, Aziz Naamane,Adel M. Alimi

Steps towards Intelligent Circuits

Optimization of the Binary Adder Architectures Implemented in ASICsand FPGAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295Bojan Jovanović, Milun Jevtić

Memristor-Based Phase-Lead Controller Circuit Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309Tsung-Chih Lin, Wei-Nan Liao, Valentina Emilia Balas

CMOS-Integrated Temperature Relay Based on WidlarMirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319Mircea A. Ciugudean, Marius M. Bălaş

A FPGA Floating Point Interpolator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331Marius M. Bălaş, Marius Socaci, Onisifor Olaru

X Contents

Knowledge-Based Technologies for Web Applications,Cloud Computing and Security Algorithms

Achieving Semantic Integration of Medical Knowledge for ClinicalDecision Support Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337Daniel Dragu, Valentin Gomoi, Vasile Stoicu-Tivadar

Similarity Measurement of Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Doru Anastasiu Popescu, Dragos Nicolae

Transmission of Unsolicited E-mails with Hidden Sender Identity . . . . . . . . . 357Ioan Virag, Antoanela Naaji, Marius Popescu

Evaluation of Experiments on Detecting Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) Attacks in Eucalyptus Private Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367Alina Mădălina Lonea, Daniela Elena Popescu, Octavian Prostean,Huaglory Tianfield

Private Cloud Set Up Using Eucalyptus Open Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381Alina Mădălina Lonea

Mathematical Model and Formalization for DTF Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Emanuel Ciprian Sasu

Contribution to Watermarking Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403Crina Raţiu, Dominic Bucerzan, Mihaela Crăciun

Android Personal Digital Life Software Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411F. Khan, A. Altaf

Computational Intelligence for Biomedical Applications

Characterization of Temperature-Dependent Echo-Shifts andBackscattered Energy Induced by Thermal Ultrasound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421Maria Graça Ruano, César A. Teixeira, Javid J. Rahmati

On the Use of Artificial Neural Networks for Biomedical Applications . . . . . 433Maria Graça Ruano, António E. Ruano

Optic Disc Localization in Retinal Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453Florin Rotaru, SilviuIoan Bejinariu, Cristina Diana Niţă, Mihaela Costin

Parallel Multiclass Support Vector Interpretation of HaemodynamicParameters for Manifestation of Aortic and Arterial Occlusive Diseases . . . . 465S.H. Karamchandani, V.K. Madan, P.M. Kelkar, S.N. Merchant, U.B. Desai

Linguistic Hedges Fuzzy Feature Selection for Differential Diagnosisof Erythemato-Squamous Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487Ahmad Taher Azar, Shaimaa A. El-Said, Valentina Emilia Balas,Teodora Olariu

Contents XI

Automated Sleep Staging Using Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of SleepEEG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501Amr F. Farag, Shereen M. El-Metwally, Ahmed Abdel Aal Morsy

Neural Networks and Applications

An Expert System to Improve the Energy Efficiency of the Reaction Zoneof a Petrochemical Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511Iñigo Monedero, Félix Biscarri, Carlos León, Juan Ignacio Guerrero

Estimation Aspects of Signal Spectral Components Using NeuralNetworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521Viorel Nicolau, Mihaela Andrei

On-Line Operation of an Intelligent Seismic Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531Guilherme Madureira, António E. Ruano, Maria Graça Ruano

Exploiting the Functional Training Approach in Takagi-SugenoNeuro-fuzzy Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Cristiano L. Cabrita, António E. Ruano, Pedro M. Ferreira, László T. Kóczy

Intelligent Systems for Image Processing

Reconstruction of Binary Images Represented on Equilateral TriangularGrid Using Evolutionary Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561Elisa Valentina Moisi, Vladimir Ioan Cretu, Benedek Nagy

Morphological Wavelets for Panchromatic and Multispectral ImageFusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573Silviu Ioan Bejinariu, Florin Rotaru, Cristina Diana Niţă, Mihaela Costin

Image Categorization Based on Computationally Economic LAB ColourFeatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585Adrian Ciobanu, Mihaela Costin, Tudor Barbu

Some Results on Ultrasonic Image Generation with Biomimetic SonarHead and Focused Narrow Beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595Dorel Aiordachioaie, Laurentiu Frangu

Using License Plates Recognition for Automate CruiseControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605Marius M. Bălaş, Nicolae A. Chira, Sergiu A. Matisan, Flavius M. Suciu

Automatic Classification of Liver Diseases from Ultrasound Images UsingGLRLM Texture Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611Raghesh Krishnan K., R. Sudhakar

XII Contents

Knowledge Management for Business Processand Enterprise Modeling

Analysis of the Bankruptcy Prediction Model in the Present EconomicSituation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625Crina Raţiu, Dominic Bucerzan, Mihaela Crăciun

Monitoring Help Desk Process Using KPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637Diana Betina Mirsu

Optimizing E-Business Using Learning-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649Irina-Steliana Stan, Ion-Sorin Stroe

The Efficiency in Time and Financial Resources Management of anIndividual by Developing an Informatics Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659Serban Popa, Gabriela Prostean

Planning Business Process Management Implementation by a HumanResources Development Support Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669Cristian Olariu, Alexandru Canda, Anca Draghici, Tomislav Rozman

Incidents Management Process Improvement of IT Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681Gabriela Prostean, Diana Betina Mirsu, Anca Draghici

Models for Sharing Resources in Agile Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691Adrian Adam, Gabriela Prostean

A Multicriteria Approach in the Selection of a SAP UI Technology . . . . . . . . 699Adela Diana Berdie, Mihaela Osaci, Nicolae Budişan

Studies on Efficiency of the Data Access by ABAP Programming . . . . . . . . . . 707Mihaela Osaci, Adela Diana Berdie, Ana Daniela Hammes

The Comparative Analysis of the Innovation Level for the EntrepreneurialEducation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715Matei Tămăşilă, Ilie Mihai Tăucean

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

List of Contributors

Lotfi A. ZadehDepartment of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michio SugenoEuropean Centre for Soft Computing Mieres-Asturias, Spain

Kay Chen TanDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore,Singapore

Michał BaczyńskiUniversity of Silesia, Institute of Mathematics, Katowice, Poland

R. MingeszDepartment of Technical Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary

Laszlo B. KishTexas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA

Z. GinglDepartment of Technical Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary

C.G. GranqvistDepartment of Engineering Sciences, The Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University,Uppsala, Sweden

H. WenTexas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USAand Hunan University, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, China

F. PeperNational Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Kobe, Japan

T. EubanksSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

XIV List of Contributors

G. SchmeraSpace and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA

Bojan JovanovićUniversity of Niš, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Dept. of Electronics, Niš, Serbia

Milun JevtićUniversity of Niš, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Dept. of Electronics, Niš, Serbia

Tsung-Chih LinDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Nan LiaoDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Valentina Emilia BalasDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad,Arad, Romania

Mircea A. CiugudeanPolitechnica University of Timisoara

Marius M. BalasDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad,Arad, Romania

Marius SocaciDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad,Arad, Romania

Onisifor Olaru“Constantin Brancusi” University of Targu Jiu, Romania

Elisa Valentina MoisiDepartment of Computer Science and Information Technology, Faculty of ElectricalEngineering and Information Technology, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

Vladimir Ioan CretuDepartment of Computer and Software Engineering, “Politehnica” University ofTimisoara, Timisoara, Romania

Benedek NagyDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen,Debrecen, Hungary

Silviu Ioan BejinariuInstitute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

Florin RotaruInstitute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

Cristina Diana NiţăInstitute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

List of Contributors XV

Adrian CiobanuInstitute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

Mihaela CostinInstitute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

Tudor BarbuInstitute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

Dorel AiordachioaieElectronics and Telecommunications Department, “Dunarea de Jos” University ofGalati, Galati, Romania

Laurentiu FranguElectronics and Telecommunications Department, “Dunarea de Jos” University ofGalati, Galati, Romania

N.A. ChiraDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad,Arad, Romania

S.A. MatisanDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad,Arad, Romania

F.M. SuciuDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad,Arad, Romania

Dragan G. RadojevićUniversity of Belgrade, Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia

Pavle MiloševićFaculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade

Ivan NešićFaculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade

Ana PoledicaFaculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade

Bratislav PetrovićFaculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade

Aleksandar RakicevicFaculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade

Emanuel Ciprian SasuDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

XVI List of Contributors

Octavian ProsteanDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Radu BoraciDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Cristian VasarDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Maria Graça RuanoCISUC, University of Coimbra and University of Algarve, Portugal

César A. TeixeiraCISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Javid J. RahmatiUniversity of Algarve, Portugal

António E. RuanoCentre for Intelligent Systems, IDMEC, IST and the University of Algarve, Portugal

S.H. KaramchandaniIndian Institute of Technology – Bombay, Mumbai, India

V.K. MadanKalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, Virudhunagar, India

P.M. KelkarSneha Health Care Centre, Mumbai, India

S.N. MerchantIndian Institute of Technology – Bombay, Mumbai, India

U.B. DesaiIndian Institute of Technology – Hyderabad, India

Daniel DraguDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Valentin GomoiDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Vasile Stoicu-TivadarDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

List of Contributors XVII

Doru Anastasiu PopescuFaculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Pitesti, Romania andNational College “Radu Greceanu” Slatina, Romania

Dragos NicolaeNational College “Radu Greceanu” Slatina, Romania

Ioan ViragDepartment of Computer Science, “Vasile Goldis” Western University of Arad,Romania

Antoanela NaajiDepartment of Computer Science, “Vasile Goldis” Western University of Arad,Romania

Marius PopescuDepartment of Computer Science, “Vasile Goldis” Western University of Arad,Romania

Alina Mădălina LoneaDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Daniela Elena PopescuComputer Engineering Department, University of Oradea, Faculty of ElectricalEngineering and Information Technology, Oradea, Romania

Octavian ProsteanDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Huaglory TianfieldSchool of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University,Glasgow, United Kingdom

Cosmin Koch-CiobotaruDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

Ildiko Tatai“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

Marian Greconici“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

Ovidiu Gana“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

Marius Babescu“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

Gabriel Gîrban“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

XVIII List of Contributors

Mircea Popa“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

Gheorghe SimaAurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

Iñigo MonederoSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronic Technology Department,Seville, Spain

Félix BiscarriSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronic Technology Department,Seville, Spain

Carlos LeónSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronic Technology Department,Seville, Spain

Juan Ignacio GuerreroSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronic Technology Department,Seville, Spain

Viorel NicolauDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunications, “Dunarea de Jos” University ofGalati, Romania

Mihaela AndreiDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunications, “Dunarea de Jos” University ofGalati, Romania

Guilherme MadureiraInstitute of Meteorology, Geophysical Center of S. Teotónio, Portugal

Cristiano L. CabritaUniversity of Algarve, Portugal

Pedro M. FerreiraAlgarve STP – Algarve Science & Technology Park, Portugal

László T. KóczyFaculty of Engineering Sciences, Széchenyi István University, Gyõr, Hungary

Petru RaduSchool of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.

Konstantinos SirlantzisSchool of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.

Gareth HowellsSchool of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.

Sanaul HoqueSchool of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.

List of Contributors XIX

Farzin DeraviSchool of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.

Cristina Madalina NoaicaArtificial Intelligence & Computational Logic Laboratory, Mathematics & ComputerScience Dept., Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania

Robert BadeaArtificial Intelligence & Computational Logic Laboratory, Mathematics & ComputerScience Dept., Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania

Iulia Maria MotocArtificial Intelligence & Computational Logic Laboratory, Mathematics & ComputerScience Dept., Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania

Claudiu Gheorghe GhicaArtificial Intelligence & Computational Logic Lab., Mathematics & Computer ScienceDept., Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania, Programmer at Clintelica AB

Alin Cristian RosoiuGame Tester at UbiSoft Romania

Nicolaie Popescu-BodorinArtificial Intelligence & Computational Logic Laboratory, Mathematics & ComputerScience Dept., Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania

Crina RaţiuDaramec SRL, Arad, România

Dominic BucerzanDepartment of Mathematics-Informatics, Faculty of Exact Sciences, “Aurel Vlaicu”University of Arad, România

Mihaela CrăciunDepartment of Mathematics-Informatics, Faculty of Exact Sciences, “Aurel Vlaicu”University of Arad, România

Diana Betina MirsuFaculty of Management in Production and Transportation “Politehnica” University ofTimisoara, Romania

Irina-Steliana StanDepartment of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Cybernetics, Statisics and EconomicInformatics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

Ion-Sorin StroeDepartment of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Cybernetics, Statisics and EconomicInformatics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

Serban PopaFaculty of Management in Production and Transportation, “Politehnica” University ofTimisoara, Romania

XX List of Contributors

Cristian Olariu“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania

Alexandru Canda“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania

Anca DraghiciFaculty of Management in Production and Transportation, “Politehnica” University ofTimisoara, Romania

Tomislav RozmanBICERO, Business Informatics Center Rozman Ltd., Maribor, Slovenia

Ahmad Taher AzarMisr University for Science & Technology (MUST), 6th of October City, Egypt

Shaimaa A. El-SaidFaculty of Engineering - Zagazig University, Zagazig, Sharkia, Egypt

Teodora OlariuVasile Goldis Western University of Arad, Romania

Behnam YavariSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Seyed Hamidreza AbbasiSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Faridoon ShabaniniaSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

F. KhanDepartment of Software Engineering University of Engineering and TechnologyTaxila, Pakistan

Amna AltafDepartment of Software Engineering University of Engineering and TechnologyTaxila, Pakistan

Amr F. FaragDepartment of Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egyptand Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shorouk Higher institute of Engineering,EL-Shorouk, Egypt

Shereen M. El-MetwallyDepartment of Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Ahmed Abdel Aal MorsyDepartment of Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

List of Contributors XXI

Rim BoughdiriREGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, NationalEngineering School of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia and LSIS, CNRS UMR 7296. Dom.Universitaire St Jérôme, Marseille, France

Hala BezineREGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, NationalEngineering School of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia

Nacer K. M’SirdiLSIS, CNRS UMR 7296. Dom. Universitaire St Jérôme, Marseille, France

Aziz NaamaneLSIS, CNRS UMR 7296. Dom. Universitaire St Jérôme, Marseille, France

Adel M. AlimiREGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, NationalEngineering School of Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia

Raghesh Krishnan K.Department of Information Technology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita Nagar,Coimbatore Tamilnadu, India

R. SudhakarDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. Mahalingam Collegeof Engineering and Technology, Pollachi Tamilnadu, India

Davood Mohammadi SouranSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Nasim PaykariSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Gabriela ProsteanFaculty of Management in Production and Transportation, “Politehnica” University ofTimisoara, Romania

Adrian AdamFaculty of Management in Production and Transportation, “Politehnica” University ofTimisoara, Romania

Adela D. BerdieDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics, Faculty ofEngineering Hunedoara, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Hunedoara, Romania

Mihaela OsaciDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics, Faculty ofEngineering Hunedoara, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Hunedoara, Romania

Nicolae BudişanDepartment of Automation and Applied Informatics, “Politehnica” University,Timisoara, Romania

XXII List of Contributors

Ana Daniela HammesCellent AG Stuttgart, Germany

Manuela PanoiuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics, Faculty ofEngineering Hunedoara, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Hunedoara, Romania

Caius PanoiuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics, Faculty ofEngineering Hunedoara, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Hunedoara, Romania

Loredana GhiormezFaculty of Automation and Computers, “Politehnica University”, Timişoara, Romania

Matei Tămăşilă“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

Ilie Mihai Tăucean“Politehnica” University, Timisoara, Romania

Marius BîzgăAutomation Department, Rovinari Power Plant, Romania

Soheil DavariDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology,Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Hossein Fazel ZarandiDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology,Tehran, Iran

V.E. Balas et al. (Eds.): Soft Computing Applications, AISC 195, pp. 1–3. springerlink.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Outline of a Restriction-Centered Theory of Reasoning and Computation in an Environment of Uncertainty,

Imprecision and Partiality of Truth*

(Video Tape Lecture)

Lotfi A. Zadeh

Department of EECS, University of California,

Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 [email protected]

Abstract. The theory which is outlined in this lecture, call it RRC for short, is a departure from traditional approaches to reasoning and computation. A princip-al advance is an enhanced capability for reasoning and computation in an environment of uncertainty, imprecision and partiality of truth. The point of de-parture in RRC is a basic premise—in the real world such environment is the norm rather than exception.

A concept which has a position of centrality in RRC is that of a restriction. Informally, a restriction is an answer to the question: What is the value of a va-riable X? More concretely, a restriction, R(X), on a variable, X, is a limitation on the values which X can take—a limitation which is induced by what is known or perceived about X. A restriction is singular if the answer to the ques-tion is a singleton; otherwise it is nonsingular. Generally, nonsingularity implies uncertainty. A restriction is precisiated if the limitation is mathematically well defined; otherwise it is unprecisiated. Generally, restrictions which are de-scribed in a natural language are unprecisiated.

There are many kinds of restrictions ranging from very simple to very complex. Ex-amples. 3≤X≤6; X is normally distributed with mean m and variance σ2; X is small; it is very likely that X is small; it is very unlikely that there will be a significant increase in the price of oil in the near future.

The canonical form of a restriction is an expression of the form X isr R, where X is the restricted variable, R is the restricting relation and r is an indexical variable which defines the way in which R restricts X.

In RRC there are two principal issues—representation and computation. Represen-tation involves representing a semantic entity, e.g., a proposition, as a restriction. For

* Research supported in part by ONR N00014-02-1-0294, Omron Grant, Tekes Grant, Azerbai-

jan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Grant, Azerbaijan University Grant and the BISC Program of UC Berkeley.

2 L.A. Zadeh

computation with restrictions what is employed is the extension principle. The exten-sion principle is a collection of computational rules which address the following prob-lem. Assume that Y=f(X). Given a restriction on X and/or a restriction on f, what is the restriction on Y, R(Y), which is induced by R(X) and R(f)? Basically, the exten-sion principle involves propagation of restrictions. Representation and computation with restrictions is illustrated with examples.

Outline of a Restriction-Centered Theory of Reasoning and Computation 3

Biographical Note

LOTFI A. ZADEH is Professor Emeritus, Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing). Since the publication of his first paper on fuzzy sets in 1965, his research has been focused on fuzzy logic and its applications.

Lotfi Zadeh has received many awards, among them the IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE Education Medal, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the ACM Allen Newell Award, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal, Gri-gore Moisil Prize, the Kampe de Feriet Award, Bolzano Medal, the Nicolaus Coper-nicus Medal, Norbert Wiener Award, the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Friend-ship Order from the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, the AI Hall of Fame and the Nixdorf Mu-seum Wall of Fame. He is a recipient of twenty-five honorary doctorates, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In addition, he is a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Korean Academy of Science & Technology, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Azer-baijan Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Engineering and Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences. His work is associated with 100,584 Google Scholar citations.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/

V.E. Balas et al. (Eds.): Soft Computing Applications, AISC 195, pp. 5–6. springerlink.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

On Structure of Uncertainties

Michio Sugeno

European Centre for Soft Computing Mieres-Asturias, Spain [email protected]

Abstract. As a conventional concept of uncertainty, we are familiar with the ‘probability’ of a phenomenon. Also we often discuss the ‘uncertainty’ of knowledge. Recently, Fuzzy Theory has brought a hidden uncertainty, ‘fuzzi-ness’, to light. Reflections on these ideas lead to a fundamental question: What kinds of uncertainty are we aware of? Motivated by this question, this study aims to explore categories and modalities of uncertainty. For instance, we have found that:

(i) ‘form’ is a category of uncertainty; (ii) ‘inconsistency’ is a modality of uncertainty; (iii) the inconsistency of form is one of the major uncertainties.

Through the classification of adjectives implying various uncertainties, we elu-cidate seven uncertainties (or nine if subcategories are counted) and identify three essential ones among them, such as the fuzziness of wording. Finally the structure of uncertainty will be shown. The obtained structure is verified by psychological experiments, while the validity of three essential uncertainties is examined by linguistic analysis.

Michio Sugeno

Short biography

After graduating from the Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Michio Sugeno worked at Mitsubishi Atomic Power Industry. Then, he served the Tokyo Institute of Technology as Research Associate, Associate Professor and Professor

6 M. Sugeno

from 1965 to 2000. After retiring from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he worked as Laboratory Head at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN from 2000 to 2005, and then, as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Doshisha University from 2005 to 2010. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and Emeritus Researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain.

He was President of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems from 1991 to 1993, and also President of the International Fuzzy Systems Association from 1997 to 1999. He is the first recipient of the IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems with Za-deh in 2000. He also received the 2010 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award.

V.E. Balas et al. (Eds.): Soft Computing Applications, AISC 195, pp. 7–8. springerlink.com Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Advances in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization

Kay Chen Tan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore

4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576 [email protected]

Abstract. Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are a class of stochastic op-timization Techniques that simulate biological evolution to solve problems with multiple (and often conflicting) objectives.

Advances made in the field of evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) are the results of more than two decades of research, studying various topics that are unique to MO problems, such as fitness assignment, diversity preservation, balance between exploration and exploitation, elitism and archiv-ing. However many of these studies assume that the problem is deterministic, while the EMO performance generally deteriorates in the presence of uncertain-ties. In certain situations, the solutions found may not even be implementable in practice. The lecture will first provide an overview of evolutionary computation and its application to multi-objective optimization. It will then discuss chal-lenges faced in EMO research and present various EMO features and algo-rithms for good optimization performance. Specifically, the impact of noise uncertainties will be described and enhancements to basic EMO algorithmic de-sign for robust optimization will be presented. The lecture will also discuss the applications of EMO techniques for solving engineering problems, such as con-trol system design and scheduling, which often involve different competing specifications in a large and constrained search space.

Kay Chen TAN is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is actively pursuing Research in computational and artificial intelligence, with applications to multi--‐objective optimization, scheduling, automation, data mining, and games.

Dr Tan has Published over 100 journal papers, over 100 papers in conference proceedings, co-‐authored 5 books in-cluding Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms and Applica-tions (Springer-Verlag, 2005), Modern Industrial Automation

Software Design (John Wiley, 2006; Chinese Edition, 2008), Evolutionary Robotics: From Algorithms to Implementations (World Scientific, 2006; Review), Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2007), and Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization in Uncertain Environments: Issues and Algorithms (Springer-Verlag, 2009), co-edited 4 books including Recent Advances in

8 K.C. Tan

Simulated Evolution and Learning (World Scientific, 2004), Evolutionary Scheduling (Springer-Verlag, 2007), Multiobjective Memetic Algorithms (Springer-Verlag, 2009), and Design and Control Of Intelligent Robotic Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2009).

Dr Tan is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has been invited to be a keynote/invited speaker for over 25 international conferences. He served in the international program committee for over 100 confe-rences and involved in the organizing committee for over 30 international conferences, including the General Co-Chair for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 in Singapore and the General Co-Chair for IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling in Tennessee, USA.

Dr Tan is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computational Intelligence Maga-zine (5-Year IF: 4.094; IF: 2.833 –Rank 13 out of all 127 IEEE journals). He also serves as an Associate Editor / Editorial Board member of over 15 international jour-nals, such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Scheduling, and International Journal of Systems Science.

Dr Tan is the awardee of the 2012 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding Early Career Award for his contributions to evolutionary computation in multi-objective optimization. He also received the Recognition Award (2008) from the International Network for Engineering Education & Research (iNEER) for his outstanding contributions to engineering education and research. He was also a win-ner of the NUS Outstanding Educator Awards (2004), the Engineering Educator Awards (2002, 2003, 2005), the Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), and the Honour Roll Awards (2007). Dr Tan is currently a Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academic.

V.E. Balas et al. (Eds.): Soft Computing Applications, AISC 195, pp. 9–10. springerlink.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

On the Applications of Fuzzy Implication Functions

Michał Baczyński

University of Silesia Institute of Mathematics

Katowice, Poland [email protected]

Abstract. Fuzzy implication functions are one of the main operations in fuzzy logic. They generalize the classical implication, which takes values in the set {0,1}, to fuzzy logic, where the truth values belong to the unit interval [0,1]. The study of this class of operations has been extensively developed in the lite-rature in the last 30 years from both theoretical and applicational points of view.

In our talk we will concentrate on many different applications of this class of functions. Firstly we will discuss some aspects of mathematical fuzzy logic. Next we will show they role in finding solutions of different fuzzy relational equations. In the next part we present their relevance in approximate reasoning and fuzzy control. In this section we will discuss various inference schemas and we will also show some results connected with fuzzy implications, which are related with reducing the complexity of inference algorithms. In the final part of our talk we will show the importance of fuzzy implication functions in fuzzy mathematical morphology and image processing.

Michał Baczyński was born in Katowice, Poland. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemi-stry, University of Silesia, Katowice, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He received the “habilitation” degree in computer science from the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, in 2010.

He is currently with the Institute of Mathematics, University of Silesia. He has co-authored a research monograph on Fuzzy Implications and is the author or co-author