As a pivotal research method in the field of granular computing (GrC), fuzzy rough sets (FRSs) have garnered significant attention due to their successful overcoming of the limitations of traditional rough sets in handling continuous data. This paper...
In the process of decision making, the probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) is a useful tool to express the evaluation information provided by decision makers (DMs). On the basis of PLTS, the probabilistic linguistic preference relation (PLPR) ha...
Medical diagnosis is the process of finding out what is the disease a person may be suffering from. From the symptoms and their gradation, the doctor can decide which the dominant disease is. Nevertheless, in the process of medical diagnosis, there i...
Geographic relation completion contributes greatly to improving the quality of large-scale geographic knowledge graphs (GeoKGs). However, the internal features of a GeoKG used in large-scale GeoKGs embedding are often limited by the weak connectivity...
Due to the tremendous use of computers, the need for dealing with digital information continues to grow. This has led to the need for constructing a structure for saving information in a way that eases data retrieval and processing. An information sy...
In the question-and-answer (Q&A) communities of the “China Agricultural Technology Extension Information Platform”, thousands of rice-related Chinese questions are newly added every day. The rapid detection of the same semantic question is the ke...
Fentanyl is a potent opioid analgesic with high bioavailability. It is the leading cause of drug addiction and overdose death. To better control the abuse of fentanyl and its derivatives, it is crucial to develop rapid and sensitive detection methods...
The proliferation of indoor and outdoor tracking devices has led to a vast amount of spatial data. Each object can be described by several trajectories that, once analysed, can yield to significant knowledge. In particular, pattern analysis by cluste...
Social bots threaten the integrity of online social platforms by spreading misinformation, manipulating public opinion, and carrying out fraudulent activities. Detecting social bots is therefore not just a classification problem: looking ahead, a det...
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The study of spatial geometric similarity plays a significant role in spatial data retrieval. Many researchers have examined spatial geometric similarity, which is useful for spatial analysis and data retrieval. However, the majority of them focused...
Maximally similar sets (MSSs) are sets of elements that share a neighborhood in a high-dimensional space defined by a symmetric, reflexive similarity relation. Each element of the universe is employed as the kernel of a neighborhood of a given size (...
With the development of infrastructure construction, an increasing number of projects are faced with the problem of hydraulic and dynamic coupling. However, traditional physical model materials mainly consider the single factor influence and lack com...
In this paper, an approach has been developed to assess geometric and topological similarity between 3D mechanical parts using their face-edge relation matrices. The approach relies on the STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Data Model) gra...
A novel image similarity index based on the greatest and smallest fuzzy set solutions of the max–min and min–max compositions of fuzzy relations, respectively, is proposed. The greatest and smallest fuzzy sets are found symmetrically as t...
Analogy belongs to the class of concepts notorious for a variety of definitions generating continuing disputes about their preferred understanding. Analogy is typically defined by or at least associated with similarity, but as long as similarity rema...
Schrödinger’s operator relations combined with Einstein’s special relativistic energy-momentum equation produce the linear Klein–Gordon partial differential equation. Here, we extend both the operator relations and the energy-m...
Most of the previous works on relation extraction between named entities are often limited to extracting the pre-defined types; which are inefficient for massive unlabeled text data. Recently; with the appearance of various distributional word repres...
Many papers on fuzzy risk analysis calculate the similarity between fuzzy numbers. Usually, they use symmetric and reflexive similarity measures between parameters of fuzzy sets or “centers of gravity” of generalized fuzzy numbers represe...
Bibliographic coupling (BC) is a similarity measure for scientific articles. It works based on an expectation that two articles that cite a similar set of references may focus on related (or even the same) research issues. For analysis and mapping of...
Combined arterial spin labeling (ASL) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can reveal more comprehensive properties of the spatiotemporal and quantitative properties of brain networks. Imaging markers of end-stage renal disease associated...
Understanding semantic relations between two texts is crucial for many information and document management tasks, in which one must determine whether the content fully overlaps, is completely superseded by another document, or overlaps only partially...
Endorheic rivers as landlocked systems with no hydrological connections to marine environments are suffering from water and ecosystem crisis worldwide, yet little is known about their structural characteristics with complex geomorphic and climatic de...
Snow water equivalent (SWE), an essential parameter of snow, is largely studied to understand the impact of climate regime effects on snowmelt patterns. This study developed a Siamese Attention U-Net (Si-Att-UNet) model to detect daily change events...
To address the supply–security pressures and hosting capacity assessment challenges arising from the high penetration of renewable energy into power systems, this paper proposes a comprehensive evaluation method for grid renewable energy hostin...
To adapt to the new demographic trends and foster high-quality and sustainable population growth, this study analyzes the synergistic development of the pension industry and pension career based on the data of 31 provinces in China from 2016 to 2022,...
The article presents a comparative analysis of experimental results from tribological tests conducted using a ball-on-disc system, applying two multi-criteria decision-making methods: Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) and TOPSIS (Technique for Order Pre...
This study combines the latest vague set similarity measurement method with the entropy weight TOPSIS method; furthermore, it applies the grey relational analysis method to establish a model for the synergistic development of supply and demand in the...
With the large scale operation of electric buses (EBs), the arrangement of their charging optimization will have a significant impact on the operation and dispatch of EBs as well as the charging costs of EB companies. Thus, an accurate grasp of how e...
The concentrated inspection campaign (CIC) is a derivative of the port state control (PSC) supplement, which is a fixed single series of deficiency inspections performed for three consecutive months at the end of each year. This study used grey relat...
The research and design of urban vitality spaces is recognized as an important part of current urban construction and development, especially for China’s first-tier cities at the background of stock renewal. Aiming to address the lack of quanti...
Background: Robot-assisted gait training is increasingly used in pediatric neurorehabilitation, but its effects on the full time-course of gait kinematics remain insufficiently understood. This study aimed to determine whether intensive gait training...
The challenging issues of computer networks and databases are not only the intrusion detection but also the reduction of false positives and increase of detection rate. In any intrusion detection system, anomaly detection mainly focuses on modeling t...
Contour lines, as the primary elements of fundamental geospatial data, have long been a research focus for similarity measurement. With the evolution of cartographic generalization, the representation of contour lines across varying scales must maint...
The current study examined the moderating effects of subordinate–supervisor similarities on abusive supervision and employee silence relationships. We addressed the question of whether employees’ silence reactions are alleviated or aggrav...
Flag codes are a recent network coding strategy based on linear algebra. Fuzzy vector subspaces extend the notions of classical linear algebra. They can be seen as abstractions of flags to the point that several fuzzy vector subspaces can be identifi...
This paper aims to propose a new approach to calculate the quantitative relations between morphostructural similarity degree and map scale change in multi-scale contour clusters for automatic contour generalization. Terrain lines were extracted by pr...
The Brazilian region of Pantanal is one of the largest wetlands in the world, characterized by a wet season, in which it is covered by a shallow water layer, and a dry season, in which the water layer disappears. The aim of this study is the estimati...
Traditionally, the footwear industry is labor intensive, and cost control is key to ensuring shoe companies can be competitive. The development of Industry 4.0 concepts, used in high-tech industries and blockchain production information systems, enab...
The well-known power-law fractal element was determined to need several important revisions by the authors of this work. It is now possible to demonstrate that any scaling equation associated with a fractal element is actually K-fold degenerated and...
Objective: A new diagnostic graphical tool—classification maps—supporting the detection of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) has been constructed. Methods: The classification maps are constructed using the ordinal regression model. I...
At present, expert scoring is mainly used to evaluate the air combat control ability, which is not accurate enough to effectively achieve the desired effect. In order to evaluate air battle managers’ air combat control ability more scientifical...
Ionizing radiation present in extraterrestrial environment is an important factor that affects plants grown in spaceflight. Pearson correlation-based gene regulatory network inferencing from transcriptional responses of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana...
Yager recently introduced the q-rung orthopair fuzzy set to accommodate uncertainty in decision-making problems. A binary relation over dual universes has a vital role in mathematics and information sciences. During this work, we defined upper approx...
With a plan to achieve a target of 5.7 GW offshore wind power capacity in 2025, Taiwan anticipates building a 36-billion USD industry, which makes Taiwan a center of attention in the global marketplace of civil engineering construction. Aimed at Taiw...
Deterministic Finite Cover Automata (DFCA) are compact representations of finite languages. Deterministic Finite Automata with “do not care” symbols and Multiple Entry Deterministic Finite Automata are both compact representations of regu...
Groundwater systems sharing similar major-ion facies may still differ in their hydrochemical organization and mineralization pathways, particularly in structurally complex aquifer settings. This study evaluated multivariate chemometric approaches for...
RNAs have been shown to exhibit differential enrichment between nuclear, cytoplasmic, and exosome fractions. A current fundamental question asks why non-coding RNA partition into different spatial compartments. We report on the analysis of cellular c...
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Post-traumatic headache (PTH) may be considered a secondary headache, which is linked to severe disability and psychosocial impairment. Interestingly, nearly 30% of subjects with persistent post-traumatic headache (PPTH) also suffer from post-traumat...
Quantitative relations between topological similarity degree and map scale change of multi-scale contour clusters are vital to the automation of map generalization. However, no method has been proposed to calculate the relations. This paper aims at f...
Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) plays a crucial role in various computer security applications, including vulnerability detection, malware detection, and software component analysis. With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), there...
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