Publications

A Novel Framework for Imputation of Missing Values in Databases

Many of the industrial and research databases are plagued by the problem of missing values. Some evident examples include databases associated with instrument maintenance, medical applications, and surveys. One of the common ways to cope with missing values is to complete their imputation (filling in). Given the rapid growth of sizes of databases, it becomes imperative to come up with a new imputation methodology along with efficient algorithms. The main objective of this paper is to develop a unified framework supporting a host of imputation methods. In the development of this framework, we require that its usage should (on average) lead to the significant improvement of accuracy of imputation while maintaining the same asymptotic computational complexity of the individual methods. Our intent is to provide a comprehensive review of the representative imputation techniques. It is noticeable that the use of the framework in the case of a low-quality single-imputation method has resulted in the imputation accuracy that is comparable to the one achieved when dealing with some other advanced imputation techniques. We also demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, that the application of the proposed framework leads to a linear computational complexity and, therefore, does not affect the asymptotic complexity of the associated imputation method.

Editorial

Safety Perception Evaluation of Civil Aviation Based on Weibo Posts in China: An Enhanced Large-Scale Group Decision-Making Framework

Fuzzy sets and knowledge representation issues

Hybrid Intelligent Systems

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Information

Concept Design Evaluation of Sustainable Product–Service Systems: A QFD–TOPSIS Integrated Framework with Basic Uncertain Linguistic Information

Ambient Intelligence, Wireless Networking, And Ubiquitous Computing

This cutting-edge reference explores the dynamic synergy between pervasive computing, and wireless communications that is breaking the ground for Ambient Intelligence (AmI). Ranging from practical application scenarios to technical infrastructure issues, this book shows you ways to plan for new AmI services, develop AmI middleware and networks, and further advance AmI research. AmI's new emotional interfaces are revolutionizing computer-human interaction, and you learn how to maximize communication efficiency for enabling this new generation of interfaces. This innovative resource presents a new approach to ad-hoc networking that broadens AmI capabilities by reducing energy consumption at network nodes. Moreover, you discover novel approaches to technology integration that aid in developing architectures for AmI environments. The book covers the latest AmI trends, including smart dust, smart personal object technology, context-aware computing, interface transparency, and federated service platform solutions.

Fuzzy polynomial neural networks: hybrid architectures of fuzzy modeling

We introduce a concept of fuzzy polynomial neural networks (FPNNs), a hybrid modeling architecture combining polynomial neural networks (PNNs) and fuzzy neural networks (FNNs). The development of the FPNNs dwells on the technologies of computational intelligence (CI), namely fuzzy sets, neural networks, and genetic algorithms. The structure of the FPNN results from a synergistic usage of FNN and PNN. FNNs contribute to the formation of the premise part of the rule-based structure of the FPNN. The consequence part of the FPNN is designed using PNNs. The structure of the PNN is not fixed in advance as it usually takes place in the case of conventional neural networks, but becomes organized dynamically to meet the required approximation error. We exploit a group method of data handling (GMDH) to produce this dynamic topology of the network. The performance of the FPNN is quantified through experimentation that exploits standard data already used in fuzzy modeling. The obtained experimental results reveal that the proposed networks exhibit high accuracy and generalization capabilities in comparison to other similar fuzzy models.

WANN-DPC: Density peaks finding clustering based on Weighted Adaptive Nearest Neighbors

Neighborhood Rough Sets based Multi-Label classification

Nowadays, multi-label classification methods are of growing interest. Due to the relationships among the labels, traditional single-label classification methods are not directly applicable to the multi-label classification problem. This paper presents a novel multi-label classification framework based on the variable precision neighborhood rough sets, called Multi-Label classification using Rough Sets (MLRS) which considers the impact of correlation among the labels and the uncertainty that exists in the mapping between the feature space and label space. A series of experiments reported for seven multi-label datasets show that MLRS achieves promising performance when compared with some famous multi-label learning algorithms.

A survey on machine learning for data fusion

Fusion of Explainable Deep Learning Features Using Fuzzy Integral in Computer Vision

A cost-effective community-hierarchy-based mutual voting approach for influence maximization in complex networks

Incremental Hashing for Semantic Image Retrieval in Nonstationary Environments

A very large volume of images is uploaded to the Internet daily. However, current hashing methods for image retrieval are designed for static databases only. They fail to consider the fact that the distribution of images can change when new images are added to the database over time. The changes in the distribution of images include both discovery of a new class and a distribution of images within a class owing to concept drift. Retraining of hash tables using all images in the database requires a large computation effort. This is also biased to old data owing to the huge volume of old images which leads to a poor retrieval performance over time. In this paper, we propose the incremental hashing (ICH) method to deal with the two aforementioned types of changes in the data distribution. The ICH uses a multihashing to retain knowledge coming from images arriving over time and a weight-based ranking to make the retrieval results adaptive to the new data environment. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective in dealing with changes in the database.

Granular Computing and Human-Centricity in Computational Intelligence

Information granules and ensuing Granular Computing offer interesting opportunities to endow processing with an important facet of human-centricity. This facet implies that the underlying processing supports non-numeric data inherently associated with the variable perception of humans. Systems that commonly become distributed and hierarchical, managing granular information in hierarchical and distributed architectures, is of growing interest, especially when invoking mechanisms of knowledge generation and knowledge sharing. The outstanding feature of human centricity of Granular Computing along with essential fuzzy set-based constructs constitutes the crux of this study. The author elaborates on some new directions of knowledge elicitation and quantification realized in the setting of fuzzy sets. With this regard, the paper concentrates on knowledge-based clustering. It is also emphasized that collaboration and reconciliation of locally available knowledge give rise to the concept of higher type information granules. Other interesting directions enhancing human centricity of computing with fuzzy sets deals with non-numeric semi-qualitative characterization of information granules, as well as inherent evolving capabilities of associated human-centric systems. The author discusses a suite of algorithms facilitating a qualitative assessment of fuzzy sets, formulates a series of associated optimization tasks guided by well-formulated performance indexes, and discusses the underlying essence of resulting solutions.

Resource Efficient Framework for Remote Sensing Visual Recognition

Multimodal Information-Based Broad and Deep Learning Model for Emotion Understanding

Multimodal information-based broad and deep learning model (MIBDL) for emotion understanding is proposed, in which facial expression and body gesture are used to achieve emotional states recognition for emotion understanding. It aims to understand coexistence multimodal information in human-robot interaction by using different processing methods of deep network and broad network, which obtains the features of depth and width dimensions. Moreover, random mapping in the initial broad learning network could cause information loss and its shallow layer network is difficult to cope with complex tasks. To address this problem, we use principal component analysis to generate the nodes of the broad learning, and the stacked broad learning network is adapted to make it easier for the existing broad learning networks to cope with complex tasks by creating deep variations of the existing network. To verify the effectiveness of the proposal, experiments completed on benchmark database of spontaneous emotion expressions are developed, and experimental results show that the proposal outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. According to the simulation experiments on the FABO database, by using the proposed method, the multimodal recognition rate is 17,54%, 1.24%, and 0.23% higher than those of the temporal normalized motion and appearance features(TN), the multi-channel CNN (MCCNN), and the hierarchical classification fusion strategy (HCFS), respectively.