• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.35-43
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• 2015

Project Management Consultant (PMC) plays a vital role in the overall performance of any project. Selecting right PMC for right project is the most crucial challenge for any construction owner. Thus, PMC selection is one of the main decisions made by owners at the early phase of construction project. It is not easy for the project owner to select a competent PMC due to the fuzziness, imprecision, vagueness, incomplete and qualitative criteria of the decision. This paper presents a model for selecting PMC contractor using the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP). And a fuzzy number based framework is proposed to be a viable method for PMC contractor selection. A case study to illustrate the application of the model is also presented in this paper.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1390-1397
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• 1996

In this paper, in case of segmenting an image by a fuzzy entropy, an image segmentation algorithm is derived under an extended fuzzy entropy including the probabilistic including the probabilistic information in order to cover the toal uncertainty of information contained in fuzzy sets. By describing the image with fuzzysets, the total uncertainty of a fuzzy set consists of the uncertain information arising from its fuzziness and the uncertain information arising from the randomness in its ordinary set. To optimally segment all the boundary regions in the image, the total entropy function is computed by locally applving the fuzzy and Shannon entropies within the width of the fuzzy regions and the image is segmented withthe global maximum andlocal maximawhich correspond to the boundary regions. Comtional one by detecting theboundary regions more than 5 times.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.13 no.21
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• pp.29-41
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• 1990

An assessment of risk in industrial and urban environments is essential in the prevention of accident and in the analysis of situations which are hazardous to public health and safety. The risk imposed by a particular hazard increases with the likelihood of occurence of the event, the exposure and the possible consequence of that event. In a traditional approach, the calculation of a quantitative value of risk is usually based on an assignment of numerical values of each of the risk factors. Then the product of the values of likelihood, exposure and consequences called risk score is derived. However vagueness and imprecision in mathematical quantification of risk are equated with fuzziness rather than randomness. In this paper, a fuzzy set theoretic approach to risk analysis is proposed as an alternative to the techniques currently used in the area of systems safety. Then the concept of risk evaluation using linguistic representation of the likelihood, exposure and consequences is introduced. A risk assessment model using approximate reasoning technique based on fuzzy logic is presented to drive fuzzy values of risk and numerical example for risk analysis is also presented to illustrate the results.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.243-250
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• 1998

In this paper, for the fuzzy constraints not only fuzziness of the constraints relation but also uncertainties of the response of the structures, allowable limits of the constraints and structural design variables, etc. are considered,. so that the fuzzy optimization of the structures can involve more wide scope of the problem and the fuzzy optimal problem is more generalized. In the decision making of the structural design scheme, every possible cases of the fuzzy variables, random variables and fuzzy-random variables, etc. for the uncertainties of the optimization problem are all considered, so the most general method of the decision making is presented. And a numerical example for the three bar truss is offered to demonstrate the reliability and execution possibility proposed method in this paper.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.13-21
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• 1997

This paper describes how to represent varations of feature parameters to improve recognition of continuous speech. For speech recognition, feature parameters, which are formant frequencies, pitches, logarithmic energies and zero crossing retes are used in general. But, their values and variations depend on speakers, for example disparities between man and woman, and on their age. It is difficult to decide a priority the value of the variation width. Hence, we try to represent this variation by introducing fuzziness and recognize a continuous speech by fuzzy inference using fuzzy production rules.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.66-95
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• 1992

Shortest paths are one of the simplest and most widely used concepts in deterministic networks. A decison of troops movement route can be analyzed in the network with a shortest path algorithm. But in reality, the value of arcs can not be determined in the network by crisp numbers due to imprecision or fuzziness in parameters. To account for this reason, a fuzzy network should be considered. A fuzzy shortest path can be modeled by general fuzzy mathematical programming and solved by fuzzy dynamic programming. It can be formulated by the fuzzy network with lingustic variables and solved by the Klein algorithm. This paper focuses on a revised fuzzy shortest path algorithm and an application is discussed.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.44-51
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• 2003

Knowledge acquisition is a bottleneck in knowledge-based system implementation. Decision tree induction is a useful machine learning approach for extracting classification knowledge from a set of training examples. Many real-world data contain fuzziness due to observation error, uncertainty, subjective judgement, and so on. To cope with this problem of real-world data, there have been some works on fuzzy classification rule learning. This paper makes a survey for the kinds of fuzzy classification rules. In addition, it presents a fuzzy classification rule learning method based on decision tree induction, and shows some experiment results for the method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.200-205
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• 2008

For data analysis, fuzzy entropy is introduced as the measure of fuzziness, similarity measure is also constructed to represent similarity between data. Similarity measure between fuzzy membership functions is constructed through distance measure, and the proposed similarity measure are proved. Application of proposed similarity measure to the example of reliable data selection is also carried out. Application results are compared with the previous results that is obtained through fuzzy entropy and statistical knowledge.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.377-402
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• 2007

After the introduction of fuzzy sets by Zadeh, there have been a number of generalizations of this fundamental concept. The notion of intuitionistic fuzzy sets introduced by Aranassov is one among them. In this paper, we apply the concept of an intuitionistic fuzzy set to implicative ideals in BCK-algebras. The notion of an intuitionistic fuzzy implicative ideal of a BCK-algebra is introduced, and some related properties are investigated. An extension property for intuitionistic fuzzy implicative ideals is established. Characterizations of an intuitionistic fuzzy implicative ideal are given. Conditions for an intuitionistic fuzzy ideal to be an intuitionistic fuzzy implicative ideal are given. Using a collection of implicative ideals, intuitionistic fuzzy implicative ideals are established.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.17 no.6 s.90
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• pp.1045-1051
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• 2005

For critical structures and application, where a given reliability must be met, it is necessary to account for uncertainties and variability in material properties, structural parameters affecting the corrosion process, in addition to the statistical and decision uncertainties. This paper presents an approach to the fuzzy arithmetic based modeling of the chloride-induced corrosion of reinforcement in concrete structures that takes into account the uncertainties in the physical models of chloride penetration into concrete and corrosion of steel reinforcement, as well as the uncertainties in the governing parameters, including concrete diffusivity, concrete cover depth, surface chloride concentration and critical chloride level for corrosion initiation. The parameters of the models are regarded as fuzzy numbers with proper membership function adapted to statistical data of the governing parameters and the fuzziness of the corrosion time is determined by the fuzzy arithmetic of interval arithmetic and extension principle