Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems - Volume 40, issue 6

Authors: Özgül, Ercan | Dinçer, Hasan | Yüksel, Serhat

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Healthy life is recognized as one of the most fundamental human rights. However, even today, millions of people around the world are forced to choose between their basic needs and fundamental rights. Half of the world’s population does not have access to the healthcare they need. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that all individuals receive the quality health services they need without incurring a financial burden, and to protect them from risk factors that threaten their health. The aim of this study is to identify the significant factors to improve UHC in the countries. For this purpose, house …of quality (HoQ) approach is used in the analysis process so that both customer expectations and technical requirements are considered. Within this framework, a novel hybrid model has been proposed which has three different stages. Firstly, 3 groups of diseases and 4 clinical services for each group are determined regarding the customer needs. Secondly, these factors are weighted by using interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant 2-tuple fuzzy decision making and trial evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL). In the final stage, 9 different technical requirements are ranked by using interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant 2-tuple fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). Additionally, another evaluation has also been conducted by considering Spherical fuzzy sets. Similarly, a comparative analysis has also been performed with VIKOR while ranking the alternatives. It is concluded that analysis results of both evaluations are quite similar. This situation gives an information about the coherency and consistency of the analysis results. The findings indicate that treatment services in noncommunicable diseases play the most significant role in this respect. Moreover, according to the ranking results, it is concluded that strategic policies should be related to improving the social security and special physician capacity as well as decreasing the out-of-pocket payment. Show more

Keywords: House of quality, UHC, hesitant linguistic terms, DEMATEL, TOPSIS

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202818

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11671-11689, 2021

Authors: Liu, Rui-Lin | Yang, Hai-Long | Zhang, Li-Juan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper studies information structures in a fuzzy β -covering information system. We introduce the concepts of a fuzzy β -covering information system and homomorphism between them, and investigate related properties. The concept of information structure of a fuzzy β -covering information system is given. We discuss the relationships between information structures from the view of dependence and separation. Then granularity measures for a fuzzy β -covering information system are studied. Finally, we discuss invariance of fuzzy β -covering information systems under homomorphism and illustrate its application on data compression.

Keywords: Fuzzy β-covering, fuzzy β-covering information system, information structure, homomorphism, invariance property

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202824

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11691-11716, 2021

Authors: Wang, Fubin | Liu, Peide | Wang, Peng

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: A scientific evaluation model can be effectively used for the evaluation of regional talent development level. This paper proposes a set of scientific index systems for evaluating rural science and technology talents, which can be used for understanding the development status and level of rural science and technology talents in various regions; putting forward the corresponding talent cultivation and introduction policies, and; promoting the development of rural economic construction. Moreover, in order to avoid the shortcoming of over-subjective indicator weight in analytic hierarchy process (AHP), this paper uses the entropy weight method to determine indicator weight. Furthermore, giving the fact …that the evaluation experts may have individual personal preferences, this paper proposes an extended TODIM method based on hybrid index values, for achieving more scientific and effective evaluation results of rural science and technology talents. Finally, the proposed methods are evaluated on an actual case, where relevant analysis and suggestions are given. Show more

Keywords: Rural scientific and technological talents, TODIM method, entropy weight method, hybrid indicator, multi-attribute decision-making

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202847

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11717-11730, 2021

Authors: Ju, Hongmei | Zhang, Yafang | Zhao, Ye

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Classification problem is an important research direction in machine learning. υ -nonparallel support vector machine (υ -NPSVM) is an important classifier used to solve classification problems. It is widely used because of its structural risk minimization principle, kernel trick, and sparsity. However, when solving classification problems, υ -NPSVM will encounter the problem of sample noises and heteroscedastic noise structure, which will affect its performance. In this paper, two improvements are made on the υ -NPSVM model, and a υ-nonparallel parametric margin fuzzy support vector machine (par-υ -FNPSVM) is established. On the one hand, for the noises that may exist in …the data set, the neighbor information is used to add fuzzy membership to the samples, so that the contribution of each sample to the classification is treated differently. On the other hand, in order to reduce the effect of heteroscedastic structure, an insensitive loss function is introduced. The advantages of the new model are verified through UCI machine learning standard data set experiments. Finally, Friedman test and Bonferroni-Dunn test are used to verify the statistical significance of it. Show more

Keywords: Classification problem, sample noises, heteroscedastic noise structure, ν-nonparallel support vector machine, parameter margin, nearest neighbor fuzzy membership

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202869

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11731-11747, 2021

Authors: Pavan Kumar, C.S. | Dhinesh Babu, L.D.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Sentiment analysis is widely used to retrieve the hidden sentiments in medical discussions over Online Social Networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. People often tend to convey their feelings concerning their medical problems over social media platforms. Practitioners and health care workers have started to observe these discussions to assess the impact of health-related issues among the people. This helps in providing better care to improve the quality of life. Dementia is a serious disease in western countries like the United States of America and the United Kingdom, and the respective governments are providing facilities to the affected people. …There is much chatter over social media platforms concerning the patients’ care, healthy measures to be followed to avoid disease, check early indications. These chatters have to be carefully monitored to help the officials take necessary precautions for the betterment of the affected. A novel Feature engineering architecture that involves feature-split for sentiment analysis of medical chatter over online social networks with the pipeline is proposed that can be used on any Machine Learning model. The proposed model used the fuzzy membership function in refining the outputs. The machine learning model has obtained sentiment score is subjected to fuzzification and defuzzification by using the trapezoid membership function and center of sums method, respectively. Three datasets are considered for comparison of the proposed and the regular model. The proposed approach delivered better results than the normal approach and is proved to be an effective approach for sentiment analysis of medical discussions over online social networks. Show more

Keywords: Dementia, sentiment analysis, machine learning, FDA, feature-split, feature engineering, trapezoid membership function

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202874

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11749-11761, 2021

Authors: Zargari, Hamed | Zahedi, Morteza | Rahimi, Marziea

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Words are one of the most essential elements of expressing sentiments in context although they are not the only ones. Also, syntactic relationships between words, morphology, punctuation, and linguistic phenomena are influential. Merely considering the concept of words as isolated phenomena causes a lot of mistakes in sentiment analysis systems. So far, a large amount of research has been conducted on generating sentiment dictionaries containing only sentiment words. A number of these dictionaries have addressed the role of combinations of sentiment words, negators, and intensifiers, while almost none of them considered the heterogeneous effect of the occurrence of multiple linguistic …phenomena in sentiment compounds. Regarding the weaknesses of the existing sentiment dictionaries, in addressing the heterogeneous effect of the occurrence of multiple intensifiers, this research presents a sentiment dictionary based on the analysis of sentiment compounds including sentiment words, negators, and intensifiers by considering the multiple intensifiers relative to the sentiment word and assigning a location-based coefficient to the intensifier, which increases the covered sentiment phrase in the dictionary, and enhanced efficiency of proposed dictionary-based sentiment analysis methods up to 7% compared to the latest methods. Show more

Keywords: Sentiment analysis, sentiment dictionary, linguistic phenomena, intensifier, intensifier location

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202879

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11763-11776, 2021

Authors: Zhang, Duo | Nguang, Sing Kiong | Shu, Lan | Qiu, Dong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper focuses on establishing the trilinear fuzzy seepage model with multiple fuzzy parameters for shale gas reservoirs. Different from the conventional seepage models of shale gas reservoirs, the multiple fuzzy parameters seepage model uses fuzzy numbers to describe some parameters with uncertainty. Firstly, the multiple fuzzy parameters seepage model is constructed based on fuzzy concepts. The fuzzy structure element method and the centroid method are used to solve the fuzzy seepage model and defuzzifier, respectively. Secondly, the advantages of the development fuzzy model over the conventional seepage model are discussed and illustrated through numerical examples and simulations. Finally, to …further study the seepage laws inside shale gas reservoirs, this paper explores the sensitivity of relevant main control parameters to gas production based on the development model. Show more

Keywords: Shale gas reservoirs, fuzzy parameter, fuzzy differential equation, fuzzy structural element, fuzzy modeling

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202898

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11777-11797, 2021

Authors: Choudhary, Anu | Raj, Kuldip | Mursaleen, M.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Tauberian theorem serves the purpose to recuperate Pringsheim’s convergence of a double sequence from its (C , 1, 1) summability under some additional conditions known as Tauberian conditions. In this article, we intend to introduce some Tauberian theorems for fuzzy number sequences by using the de la Vallée Poussin mean and double difference operator of order r  . We prove that a bounded double sequence of fuzzy number which is Δ u r - convergent is ( C , 1 , 1 ) Δ u r - summable to the …same fuzzy number L  . We make an effort to develop some new slowly oscillating and Hardy-type Tauberian conditions in certain senses employing de la Vallée Poussin mean. We establish a connection between the Δ u r - Hardy type and Δ u r - slowly oscillating Tauberian condition. Finally by using these new slowly oscillating and Hardy-type Tauberian conditions, we explore some relations between ( C , 1 , 1 ) Δ u r - summable and Δ u r - convergent double fuzzy number sequences. Show more

Keywords: Fuzzy number, difference operator, double sequences, Tauberian theorem, (C, 1, 1)- summability

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202921

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11799-11808, 2021

Authors: Lei, Fan | Wei, Guiwu | Chen, Xudong

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic term set (PDHLTS) can not only express the complex linguistic information that the probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) cannot express, but also reflect the frequency or importance of linguistic term set (LTS)that cannot be reflected by the double hierarchy linguistic term set (DHLTS). It is an effective tool to deal with multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems. Therefore, in this paper, we propose several aggregation operators which can aggregate PDHLTS information and apply them to MAGDM problems. Firstly, the basic notion of PDHLTS is reviewed, and the distance formula and algorithm of PDHLTS are defined; …then, extant weighted averaging (WA) operator, weighted geometric(WG) operator and power weighted averaging (PWA) operator, power weighted geometric(PWG) operator to PDHLTS, and establish probability double hierarchy linguistic weighted averaging (PDHLWA) operator, probability double hierarchy linguistic weighted geometric (PDHLWG) operator, probability double hierarchy linguistic power weighted averaging (PDHLPWA) operator, probability double hierarchy linguistic power weighted geometric (PDHLPWG) operator; in addition, The idempotency, boundedness and monotonicity of these aggregation operators are studied; what’s more, those aggregation operators are proposed to establish the enterprise credit self-evaluation model; Finally, compared with the available probabilistic double hierarchy linguistic MAGDM methods, the defined model is proved to be scientific and effective. Show more

Keywords: Multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM), probabilistic double hierarchy term set (PDHLTS), aggregation operators, enterprise credit self-evaluation model

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202922

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11809-11828, 2021

Authors: Wu, Xinhao | Lu, Qiujun

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Application of quantitative methods for forecasting purposes in financial markets has attracted significant attention from researchers and managers in recent years when conventional time series forecasting models can hardly develop the inherent rules of complex nonlinear dynamic financial systems. In this paper, based on the fuzzy technique integrated with the statistical tools and artificial neural network, a new hybrid forecasting system consisting of three stages is constructed to exhibit effectively improved forecasting accuracy of financial asset price. The sum of squared errors is minimized to determine the coefficients in fitting the fuzzy autoregression model stage for formulating sample groups to …deal with data containing outliers. Fuzzy bilinear regression model introducing risk view based on quadratic programming algorithm that reflects the properties of both least squares and possibility approaches without expert knowledge is developed in the second stage. The main idea of the model considers the sub-models tracking the possible relations between the spread and the center, also linking the estimation deviation with risk degree of fitness of the model. In the third stage, fuzzy bilinear regression forecasting combining with the optimal architecture of probabilistic neural network classifiers indicates that the proposed method has great contribution to control over-wide interval financial data with a certain confidence level. Statistical validation and performance analysis using historical financial asset yield series on Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index all exhibit the effectiveness and stability of the proposed hybrid forecasting formulation compared with other forecasting methods. Show more

Keywords: Financial asset yield series forecasting, fuzzy bilinear regression, probabilistic neural network, symmetrical triangular fuzzy number, risk-neutral

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-202927

Citation: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 11829-11844, 2021