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8 December 2025

A bipolar neutrosophic set (BNS) is designed to handle uncertain information by capturing both supportive and opposing aspects of data. In this paper, the pattern classification method is studied based on the proposed Hamming–Chebyshev hybrid d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
2,936 Views
17 Pages

8 March 2021

Picture fuzzy sets, which are the extension of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, can deal with inconsistent information better in practical applications. A distance measure is an important mathematical tool to calculate the difference degree between picture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,057 Views
10 Pages

6 September 2013

Distance measures are used to quantify the extent to which information is preserved or altered by quantum processes, and thus are indispensable tools in quantum information and quantum computing. In this paper we propose a new distance measure for mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,331 Views
17 Pages

29 April 2019

The present paper contrasts two related criteria for the evaluation of prior-data conflict: the Data Agreement Criterion (DAC; Bousquet, 2008) and the criterion of Nott et al. (2016). One aspect that these criteria have in common is that they depend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
3,858 Views
18 Pages

29 August 2018

The existing cosine similarity measure for hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) has an impediment as it does not satisfy the axiom of similarity measure. Due to this disadvantage, a new similarity measure combining the existing cosine similar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,209 Views
20 Pages

22 September 2018

The intuitionistic fuzzy set introduced by Atanassov has greater ability in depicting and handling uncertainty. Intuitionistic fuzzy measure is an important research area of intuitionistic fuzzy set theory. Distance measure and similarity measure are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,461 Views
26 Pages

28 August 2021

Much attention has been paid to construct an applicable knowledge measure or uncertainty measure for Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy set (AIFS). However, many of these measures were developed from intuitionistic fuzzy entropy, which cannot really re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,182 Views
13 Pages

10 August 2023

The knowledge measure or uncertainty measure for constructing interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets has attracted much attention. However, many uncertainty measures are measured by the entropy of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,098 Views
23 Pages

19 August 2022

Many similarity measure algorithms of nodes in weighted graph data have been proposed by employing the degree of nodes in recent years. Despite these algorithms obtaining great results, there may be still some limitations. For instance, the strength...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,257 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2018

This paper proposes a neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (NHFLTS) based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (HFLTS) and neutrosophic set (NS), which can express the inconsistent and uncertainty information flexibly in multiple criteria...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,651 Views
15 Pages

A single-valued neutrosophic (SVN) set contains three parameters, which can well describe three aspects of an objective thing. However, most previous similarity measures of SVN sets often encounter some counter-intuitive examples. Manhattan distance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,778 Views
12 Pages

17 February 2024

Adverse weather conditions at night are very fatal to drivers, causing serious traffic accidents. Road lighting is a facility that can alleviate these dangerous situations. Nevertheless, road lighting has only rarely been studied during adverse weath...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,809 Views
24 Pages

16 October 2020

λ0-measure is a special type of fuzzy measure. In the context of multi-attribute decision making (MADM), the measure can be used together with Choquet integral to model the interdependencies that usually present between the decision attributes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,363 Views
11 Pages

21 February 2019

The aim of this paper is to present a multiple-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) framework based on a new single-valued neutrosophic linguistic (SVNL) distance measure. By unifying the idea of the weighted average and ordered weighted averaging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,721 Views
21 Pages

26 January 2024

The waterflooding effect evaluation of carbonate fractured–vuggy reservoirs constitutes a comprehensive multiple-information decision-making process involving quantitative unascertained measure theory. This paper establishes a novel comprehensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,393 Views
22 Pages

28 February 2023

Biofuel can become a favorable sustainable energy resource in India by relieving conventional fossil fuels. However, biofuel enterprises (BEs) are still in the preliminary phase because of sustainable development barriers (SDBs) in environmental, tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,710 Views
21 Pages

Methods of Precise Distance Measurements for Laser Rangefinders with Digital Acquisition of Signals

  • Michał Muzal,
  • Marek Zygmunt,
  • Piotr Knysak,
  • Tadeusz Drozd and
  • Marcin Jakubaszek

26 September 2021

The article presents methods of long range distance measurements using pulsed lasers and the Time of Flight principle. Various algorithms of laser distance measurements with digital acquisition of echo pulses (acquisition of a signal’s full waveform)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,667 Views
11 Pages

16 March 2019

The processing of uncertain information is increasingly becoming a hot topic in the artificial intelligence field, and the information measures of uncertainty information processing are also becoming of importance. In the process of decision-making,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,108 Views
21 Pages

18 May 2023

Luminance measurements are the least frequent of all photometric measurements. This article characterizes and systematizes the various methods of luminance measurement. In particular, the method of direct luminance measurement using modern luminance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,729 Views
14 Pages

This paper presents a non-intrusive method for estimating the distance between a camera and a human subject using a monocular vision system and statistically derived interpupillary distance (IPD) values. The proposed approach eliminates the need for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,372 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2018

The idea of the Q-neutrosophic soft set emerges from the neutrosophic soft set by upgrading the membership functions to a two-dimensional entity which indicate uncertainty, indeterminacy and falsity. Hence, it is able to deal with two-dimensional inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,266 Views
12 Pages

11 October 2019

Measuring and testing association between categorical variables is one of the long-standing problems in multivariate statistics. In this paper, I define a broad class of association measures for categorical variables based on weighted Minkowski dista...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,276 Views
16 Pages

14 July 2020

To reduce wind turbine failures by defective drive trains, deviations in the geometry of large gears (diameter ≳ 1 m) must be extensively determined with single-digit micrometer uncertainties. Fixed measuring volumes limit standard measuring methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,961 Views
11 Pages

Sensor for Distance Measurement Using Pixel Grey-Level Information

  • José L. Lázaro,
  • Angel E. Cano,
  • Pedro R. Fernández and
  • Yamilet Pompa

6 November 2009

An alternative method for distance measurement is presented, based on a radiometric approach to the image formation process. The proposed methodology uses images from an infrared emitting diode (IRED) to estimate the distance between the camera and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,991 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2024

Indoor distance measurement technology utilizing Zigbee’s Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) offers cost-effective and energy-efficient advantages, making it widely adopted for indoor distance measurement applications. However, challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,175 Views
12 Pages

16 June 2019

Complex fuzzy set (CFS) is a recent development in the field of fuzzy set (FS) theory. The significance of CFS lies in the fact that CFS assigned membership grades from a unit circle in the complex plane, i.e., in the form of a complex number whose a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,092 Views
11 Pages

2 February 2023

Accurate measurements of long distances (in the order of tens of meters or more) are necessary in manufacturing processes of large structures, as, for example, in the aerospace industry. In the most demanding applications, the goal is to achieve a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,227 Views
21 Pages

27 January 2014

A single-webcam distance measurement technique for indoor robot localization is proposed in this paper. The proposed localization technique uses webcams that are available in an existing surveillance environment. The developed image-based distance me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,286 Views
11 Pages

Bat Pass Duration Measurement: An Indirect Measure of Distance of Detection

  • Christian Kerbiriou,
  • Yves Bas,
  • Isabelle Le Viol,
  • Romain Lorrillière,
  • Justine Mougnot and
  • Jean-François Julien

22 March 2019

Few reports have been published on detection distances of bat calls because the evaluation of detection distance is complicated. Several of the approaches used to measure detection distances are based on the researcher’s experience and judgment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,332 Views
18 Pages

7 February 2019

Concerns over environmental issues have recently increased. Particularly, construction noise in highly populated areas is recognized as a serious stressor that not only negatively affects humans and their environment, but also construction firms thro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,936 Views
15 Pages

Distance Calibration between Reference Plane and Screen in Direct Phase Measuring Deflectometry

  • Shujun Huang,
  • Yue Liu,
  • Nan Gao,
  • Zonghua Zhang,
  • Feng Gao and
  • Xiangqian Jiang

6 January 2018

The recently developed direct phase measuring deflectometry (DPMD) method can directly measure the three-dimensional (3D) shape of specular objects with discontinuous surfaces, but requires a calibrated distance between a reference plane and liquid c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,964 Views
22 Pages

Visual Assessment of Cluster Tendency with Variations of Distance Measures

  • Guzel Shkaberina,
  • Natalia Rezova,
  • Elena Tovbis and
  • Lev Kazakovtsev

21 December 2022

Finding the cluster structure is essential for analyzing self-organized networking structures, such as social networks. In such problems, a wide variety of distance measures can be used. Common clustering methods often require the number of clusters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,798 Views
11 Pages

High Accuracy Ultrasound Micro-Distance Measurements with PMUTs under Liquid Operation

  • Iván Zamora,
  • Eyglis Ledesma,
  • Arantxa Uranga and
  • Núria Barniol

1 July 2021

Ultrasonic systems driven by multi-frequency continuous waves (MFCW) have been used for range distance measurement, offering high accuracy in long and medium range distance estimation. However, the use of continuous waves in very short-distance measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,936 Views
24 Pages

27 February 2024

Fermatean fuzzy sets (FFSs) serve as a nascent yet potent approach for coping with fuzziness, with their efficacy recently being demonstrated across a spectrum of practical contexts. Nevertheless, the scholarly literature remains limited in exploring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,058 Views
19 Pages

MFBCE: A Multi-Focal Bionic Compound Eye for Distance Measurement

  • Qiwei Liu,
  • Xia Wang,
  • Jiaan Xue,
  • Shuaijun Lv and
  • Ranfeng Wei

24 April 2025

In response to the demand for small-size, high-precision, and real-time target distance measurement in platforms such as autonomous vehicles and drones, this paper investigates the multi-focal bionic compound eye (MFBCE) and its associated distance m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,844 Views
15 Pages

8 August 2018

With the booming development of the Internet of things (IoT) industry, the demand of positioning technology in various IoT application scenarios is also greatly increased. To meet the positioning requirements of the IoT application, we propose a dist...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,622 Views
24 Pages

A (p,q)-Averaged Hausdorff Distance for Arbitrary Measurable Sets

  • Johan M. Bogoya,
  • Andrés Vargas,
  • Oliver Cuate and
  • Oliver Schütze

18 September 2018

The Hausdorff distance is a widely used tool to measure the distance between different sets. For the approximation of certain objects via stochastic search algorithms this distance is, however, of limited use as it punishes single outliers. As a reme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,392 Views
14 Pages

6 July 2018

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) can provide accurate and high-resolution data by measuring the distances (ranges) between the scanned points and the scanner center using time-of-flight or phase-shift-based methods. Distance measurement accuracy is...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,237 Views
4 Pages

Absolute distance measurement by means of a self-mixing interferometer (SMI) can be obtained by modulating the laser frequency. This modulation is typically achieved through the modulation of the laser injection current with a triangle waveform. Vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,218 Views
22 Pages

3 December 2024

We propose a new commercial laser triangulation sensor modification to enable the measurement of slots or bores side distance. The study showed the possibility of extending the sensor depth range for a slot or bore side distance measurement using a b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,749 Views
31 Pages

12 June 2025

A neutrosophic set is an important tool for handling vagueness and impreciseness in real-world problems, and distance measures are also exhibited in neutrosophic set theory. The (m,a,n)-fuzzy neutrosophic set is more flexible and efficient than the e...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,954 Views
11 Pages

Distance Measurement of a Frequency-Shifted Sub-Terahertz Wave Source

  • Minoru Honjo,
  • Koji Suizu,
  • Masaki Yamaguchi and
  • Tomofumi Ikari

24 February 2022

In this paper, we report the development of a frequency-shifted (FS) terahertz (THz) wave source for the non-destructive inspection of buildings. Currently, terahertz-time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is the mainstream method for non-destructive ins...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,863 Views
18 Pages

Integrated Circuit Bonding Distance Inspection via Hierarchical Measurement Structure

  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Chenghan Pu,
  • Yanming Zhang,
  • Muyuan Niu,
  • Lifeng Hao and
  • Jun Wang

18 June 2024

Bonding distance is defined by the projected distance on a substrate plane between two solder points of a bonding wire, which can directly affect the morphology of the bonding wire and the performance between internal components of the chip. For the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
168 Views
26 Pages

6 January 2026

This paper quantifies the economic and operational impact of spatial accuracy in metropolitan public transport systems, proposing a standardized GIS-based method for measuring inter-stop distances. Addressing the geometric limitations of legacy GTFS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,100 Views
20 Pages

Fuzzy Clustering with Uninorm-Based Distance Measure

  • Evgeny Kagan,
  • Alexander Novoselsky and
  • Alexander Rybalov

19 May 2025

In this paper, we suggest an algorithm of fuzzy clustering with a uninorm-based distance measure. The algorithm follows a general scheme of fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering, but in contrast to the existing algorithm, it implements logical distance betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,431 Views
19 Pages

Vision-Based Distance Measurement in Advanced Driving Assistance Systems

  • Meng Ding,
  • Zhenzhen Zhang,
  • Xinyan Jiang and
  • Yunfeng Cao

17 October 2020

As the forward-looking depth information plays a considerable role in advanced driving assistance systems, in this paper, we first propose a method of depth map estimation based on semi-supervised learning, which uses the left and right views of bino...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,236 Views
12 Pages

Dynamic Distance Measurement Based on a Fast Frequency-Swept Interferometry

  • Yuru Chen,
  • Xiaohua Lei,
  • Lin Xiao,
  • Peng Zhang and
  • Xianming Liu

24 June 2022

To improve the precision of dynamic distance measurement based on the frequency-swept interferometry (FSI) system, a Doppler-induced error compensation model based on a scheme increasing the frequency sweeping rate is proposed. A distance demodulatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,974 Views
10 Pages

Novel Parameterized Distance Measures on Hesitant Fuzzy Sets with Credibility Degree and Their Application in Decision-Making

  • Jiaru Li,
  • Fangwei Zhang,
  • Qiang Li,
  • Jing Sun,
  • Janney Yee,
  • Shuhong Wang and
  • Shujun Xiao

1 November 2018

The subject of this study is to explore the role of cardinality of hesitant fuzzy element (HFE) in distance measures on hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs). Firstly, three parameters, i.e., credibility factor, conservative factor, and a risk factor are introd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,898 Views
9 Pages

Absolute Distance Measurement Based on Self-Mixing Interferometry Using Compressed Sensing

  • Li Li,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Ye Zhu,
  • Ya Dai,
  • Xuan Zhang and
  • Xuwen Liang

29 August 2022

An absolute distance measurement sensor based on self-mixing interferometry (SMI) is suitable for application in aerospace due to its small size and light weight. However, an SMI signal with a high sampling rate places a burden on sampling devices an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,133 Views
25 Pages

Relative Knowledge Distance Measure of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Concept

  • Jie Yang,
  • Xiaodan Qin,
  • Guoyin Wang,
  • Xiaoxia Zhang and
  • Baoli Wang

19 October 2022

Knowledge distance is used to measure the difference between granular spaces, which is an uncertainty measure with strong distinguishing ability in a rough set. However, the current knowledge distance failed to take the relative difference between gr...

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