• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.29-42
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• 2014

Extensive research has been conducted on supplier evaluation and selection as a strategic and crucial component of supply chain management in recent years. However, few articles in the previous literature have been dedicated to the use of fuzzy inference systems as an aid in decision-making. Therefore, this essay attempts to demonstrate the application of this method in evaluating suppliers, based on a comprehensive framework of qualitative and quantitative factors besides the effect of gradual coverage distance. The purpose of this study is to investigate the applicability of the numerous measures and metrics in a multi-objective optimization problem of the supply chain network design with the aim of managing the allocation of orders by coordinating the production lines to satisfy customers' demand. This work presents a dynamic non-linear programming model that examines the important aspects of the strategic planning of the manufacturing in supply chain. The effectiveness of the configured network is illustrated using a sample, following which an exact method is used to solve this multi-objective problem and confirm the validity of the model, and finally the results will be discussed and analyzed.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.305-314
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• 2001

In this paper, we construct an automatic evaluation system of psychological feeling for corporate identity (CI) symbol mark based on a fuzzy neural network technique. The system is modelled by trainable fuzzy inference rules with several input variables (qualitative and quantitative design components of CI symbol mark) and a single output variable (consumer's feeling). The back propagation learning algorithm, which is a conventional learning method of multilayer feedforward neural networks, is used for parameter identification of the fuzzy inference system. The learning ability to train data and the generalization ability to test data are evaluated for the proposed evaluation system by computer simulations.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.3 s.29
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• pp.96-102
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• 1998

This paper presents to create a SAC(Sectional Area Curve) using an ANFIS(Adaptive-Network-based Fuzzy Inference System). First, it defines SACs of parent ships by using a B-spline approximation and a genetic algorithm and accumulates a database about SAC's control points. Second, it learns an ANFIS from parent ship data, which are related with principal dimensions and SAC's control points. This process is to model an ANFIS for SAC inferreice. When an ANFIS modeling is completed, we can determine a SAC through an ANFIS inferring.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.454-467
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• 2002

It has been established that a crack has an important effect on the dynamic behavior of a structure. This effect depends mainly on the location and depth of the crack. Toidentifythelocation and depth of a crack in a structure, a method is presented in this paper which uses neuro-fuzzy-evolutionary technique, that is, Adaptive-Network-based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) solved via hybrid learning algorithm (the back-propagation gradient descent and the least-squares method) and Continuous Evolutionary Algorithms (CEAs) solving sir ale objective optimization problems with a continuous function and continuous search space efficiently are unified. With this ANFIS and CEAs, it is possible to formulate the inverse problem. ANFIS is used to obtain the input(the location and depth of a crack) - output(the structural Eigenfrequencies) relation of the structural system. CEAs are used to identify the crack location and depth by minimizing the difference from the measured frequencies. We have tried this new idea on beam structures and the results are promising.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.131-133
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• 1999

This paper proposed the technique of the fault-types classification using Adaptive Network Fuzzy Inference System in the distribution system. Fault and fault-like data in the linear RL load, arc furnace load and converter load were extracted by EMTP. These were characterized into 5 input variables and fuzzified automatically by learning. This technique was tested using another fault data unused learning.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07b
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• pp.519-521
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• 1998

Fuzzy inference systems have found many applications in recent years. The fuzzy inference system design procedure is related to an expert or a skilled human operator in many fields. Various attempts have been made in optimizing its structure using genetic algorithm automated designs. This paper presents a new approach to structurally optimized designs of FNN models. The messy genetic algorithm is used to obtain structurally optimized fuzzy neural network models. Structural optimization is regarded important before neural network based learning is switched into. We have applied the method to the problem of a time series estimation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.302-305
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• 1996

In this paper, an optimal identification method using fuzzy-neural networks is proposed for modeling of nonlinear complex systems. The proposed fuzzy-neural modeling implements system structure and parameter identification using the intelligent schemes together with optimization theory, linguistic fuzzy implication rules, and neural networks(NNs) from input and output data of processes. Inference type for this fuzzy-neural modeling is presented as simplified inference. To obtain optimal model, the learning rates and momentum coefficients of fuzz-neural networks(FNNs) and parameters of membership function are tuned using genetic algorithm(GAs). For the purpose of its application to nonlinear processes, data for route choice of traffic problems and those for activated sludge process of sewage treatment system are used for the purpose of evaluating the performance of the proposed fuzzy-neural network modeling. The show that the proposed method can produce the intelligence model w th higher accuracy than other works achieved previously.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07c
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• pp.1046-1049
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• 1998

This paper deals with the new fault detection technique for transmission line using Neuro-fuzzy Scheme. Neuro-fuzzy Scheme is ANFIS(Adaptive-network Fuzzy Inference System) based on fusion of fuzzy logic and neural networks. The proposed scheme has five layers. Each layer is the component of fuzzy Inference system and performs different action. Using learning method of neural network, fuzzy premise and consequent parameters is tuned properly.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.1118-1120
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• 1993

Fuzzy logic places a considerable burden on an inference engine for applications such as control or approximate reasoning. Various neural network architectures have been proposed to deal with the computational task, and yet, maintain flexibility in the desired traits of the final system. Recently, we introduced a trainable network architecture whose nodes implement weighted Yager additive hybrid operators for fuzzy logic inference in an approximate reasoning setting. In this paper we examine the utility of such networks for control situations. We show that they are capable of learning control functions which are piece-wise monotonic in each of the variables. The learning ability is demonstrated through an example.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.257-262
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• 2009

Image processing has been utilized for assessment of infrastructure surface coating conditions for years. However, there is no robust method to overcome the non-uniform illumination problem to date. Therefore, this paper aims to deal with non-uniform illumination problems for bridge coating assessment and to achieve automated rust intensity recognition. This paper starts with selection of the best color configuration for non-uniformly illuminated rust image segmentation. The adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is adopted as the framework to develop the new model, the box-and-ellipse-based neuro-fuzzy approach (BENFA). Finally, the performance of BENFA is compared to the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) method, which is often used in image recognition, to show the advantage and robustness of BENFA.