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Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers (2022)
Conference Proceeding

Time series classification is a challenging research area where machine learning techniques such as deep learning perform well, yet lack interpretability. Identifying the most important features for such classifiers provides a pathway to improving th... Read More about Feature Importance Identification for Time Series Classifiers.

Alpha-cut based compositional representation of fuzzy sets and exploration of associated fuzzy set regression (2022)
Conference Proceeding

The compositional representation of data and associated statistical approaches is a powerful framework for modelling and reasoning about quantities which reflect proportions of a whole. Recently, an increasing body of work has started exploring the a... Read More about Alpha-cut based compositional representation of fuzzy sets and exploration of associated fuzzy set regression.

Visualization of Interval Regression for Facilitating Data and Model Insight (2022)
Conference Proceeding

With growing significance of interval-valued data, interest in artificial intelligence methods tailored to this data type is similarly increasing across a range of application domains. Here, regression, i.e., the modelling of the association between... Read More about Visualization of Interval Regression for Facilitating Data and Model Insight.

Does Permitting Uncertain Estimates Help or Hinder the Wisdom of Crowds? (2022)
Conference Proceeding

This paper adds to a growing body of research into the practical utility of using interval-valued (IV) response modes to efficiently capture richer quantitative data from people-e.g., through surveys. Specifically, IV responses offer a cohesive metho... Read More about Does Permitting Uncertain Estimates Help or Hinder the Wisdom of Crowds?.

Do People Prefer to Give Interval-Valued or Point Estimates and Why? (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Capturing interval-valued, as opposed to more conventional point-valued data, offers a potentially efficient method of obtaining richer information in individual responses. In turn, interval-valued data provide a strong foundation for subsequent fuzz... Read More about Do People Prefer to Give Interval-Valued or Point Estimates and Why?.

Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The use of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems (HFS) has been well acknowledged as a good approach in reducing the complexity and improving the interpretability of fuzzy logic systems (FLS). Over the past years, many fuzzy logic toolkits have been made availa... Read More about Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox.

An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Recent years have seen a surge in interest in non-singleton fuzzy systems. These systems enable the direct modelling of uncertainty affecting systems' inputs using the fuzzification stage. Moreover, recent work has shown how different composition app... Read More about An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems.

Choosing Sample Sizes for Statistical Measures on Interval-Valued Data (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Intervals have frequently been used in the literature to represent uncertainty in data, from eliciting uncertain judgements from experts to representing uncertainty in sensor measurements. This widespread use of intervals has led to research on inter... Read More about Choosing Sample Sizes for Statistical Measures on Interval-Valued Data.

Insights from interval-valued ratings of consumer products - a DECSYS appraisal (2020)
Conference Proceeding

The capture and analysis of interval-valued data has seen increased interest over recent years. This offers a direct means to capture and reason about uncertainty in data, whether obtained from sensors or from people. Open-source software (DECSYS [1]... Read More about Insights from interval-valued ratings of consumer products - a DECSYS appraisal.

Juzzy Constrained: Software for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Java (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Constrained interval type-2 (CIT2) fuzzy sets are a class of type-2 fuzzy sets that has been recently proposed as a way to extend type-1 membership functions to interval type-2 (IT2) while keeping a semantic connection between the IT2 fuzzy set and t... Read More about Juzzy Constrained: Software for Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Java.

Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both? (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Fuzzy Logic Systems can provide a good level of interpretability and may provide a key building block as part of a growing interest in explainable AI. In practice, the level of interpretability of a given fuzzy logic system is dependent on how well i... Read More about Performance and Interpretability in Fuzzy Logic Systems – can we have both?.

Uncertainty-Aware Forecasting of Renewable Energy Sources (2020)
Conference Proceeding

Smart grid systems are designed to enable the efficient capture and intelligent distribution of electricity across a distributed set of utilities. They are an essential component of increasingly important renewable energy sources, where it is vital t... Read More about Uncertainty-Aware Forecasting of Renewable Energy Sources.

Exploring How Component Factors and Their Uncertainty Affect Judgements of Risk in Cyber-Security (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Subjective judgements from experts provide essential information when assessing and modelling threats in respect to cyber-physical systems. For example, the vulnerability of individual system components can be described using multiple factors, such a... Read More about Exploring How Component Factors and Their Uncertainty Affect Judgements of Risk in Cyber-Security.

A Measure of Structural Complexity of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Adapted from Software Engineering (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Hierarchical fuzzy systems (HFSs) have been seen as an effective approach to reduce the complexity of fuzzy logic systems (FLSs), largely as a result of reducing the number of rules. However, it is not clear completely how complexity of HFSs can be m... Read More about A Measure of Structural Complexity of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Adapted from Software Engineering.

Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Aggregation operators are mathematical functions that enable the fusion of information from multiple sources. Fuzzy Integrals (FIs) are widely used aggregation operators, which combine information in respect to a Fuzzy Measure (FM) which captures the... Read More about Fuzzy Integral Driven Ensemble Classification using A Priori Fuzzy Measures.

DECSYS - Discrete and Ellipse-based response Capture SYStem (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Data-driven techniques that capture uncertainty through intervals or fuzzy sets can substantially improve systematic reasoning about uncertain information. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the capture of intervals from a variety of sources-... Read More about DECSYS - Discrete and Ellipse-based response Capture SYStem.

On Comparing and Selecting Approaches to Model Interval-Valued Data as Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Conference Proceeding

The capture of interval-valued data is becoming an increasingly common approach in data collection (from survey based research to the collation of sensor data) as an efficient method of obtaining information about uncertainty associated with the data... Read More about On Comparing and Selecting Approaches to Model Interval-Valued Data as Fuzzy Sets.

Leveraging IT2 Input Fuzzy Sets in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems to Dynamically Adapt to Varying Uncertainty Levels (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Most real-world environments are subject to different sources of uncertainty which may vary in magnitude over time. We propose that while Type-1 (T1) Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic System (NSFLSs) have the potential to tackle uncertainty within the input... Read More about Leveraging IT2 Input Fuzzy Sets in Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems to Dynamically Adapt to Varying Uncertainty Levels.

Measuring Inter-group Agreement on zSlice Based General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Recently, there has been much research into modelling of uncertainty in human perception through Fuzzy Sets (FSs). Most of this research has focused on allowing respondents to express their (intra) uncertainty using intervals. Here, depending on the... Read More about Measuring Inter-group Agreement on zSlice Based General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets.

Measuring similarity between discontinuous intervals : challenges and solutions (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Discontinuous intervals (DIs) arise in a wide range of contexts, from real world data capture of human opinion to ?-cuts of non-convex fuzzy sets. Commonly, for assessing the similarity of DIs, the latter are converted into their continuous form, fol... Read More about Measuring similarity between discontinuous intervals : challenges and solutions.