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Handling uncertainty in citizen science data: towards an improved amateur-based large-scale classification (2018)
Journal Article
Jiménez, M., Triguero, I., & John, R. (2019). Handling uncertainty in citizen science data: towards an improved amateur-based large-scale classification. Information Sciences, 479, 301-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2018.12.011

© 2018 Citizen Science, traditionally known as the engagement of amateur participants in research, is showing great potential for large-scale processing of data. In areas such as astronomy, biology, or geo-sciences, where emerging technologies genera... Read More about Handling uncertainty in citizen science data: towards an improved amateur-based large-scale classification.

Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Figueredo, G. P., Agrawal, U., Mase, J., Mesgarpour, M., Wagner, C., Soria, D., …John, R. (2019). Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 20(9), 3324-3336. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2875343

Although driving behaviour has been largely studied amongst private motor vehicles drivers, the literature addressing heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers is scarce. Identifying the existing groups of driving stereotypes and their proportions enables re... Read More about Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom.

OPTIMISED – Developing a State of the Art System for Production Planning for Industry 4.0 in the Construction Industry -Based Optimisation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Teufl, S., Owa, K., Steinhauer, D., Castro, E., Herries, G., John, R., & Ratchev, S. (2018). OPTIMISED – Developing a State of the Art System for Production Planning for Industry 4.0 in the Construction Industry -Based Optimisation. In M. Peruzzini, M. Pellicciari, C. Bil, J. Stjepandić, & N. Wognum (Eds.), Transdisciplinary Engineering Methods for Social Innovation of Industry 4.0 : Proceedings of the 25th ISPE Inc. International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering, July 3 – 6, 2018 (731-740). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-898-3-731

© 2018 The authors and IOS Press. Although it is not uncommon to have a predictive model of a factory, these models are often simplistic in nature. Such models rarely reflect the current operating performance of the system, use simple and separate da... Read More about OPTIMISED – Developing a State of the Art System for Production Planning for Industry 4.0 in the Construction Industry -Based Optimisation.

A comment on "A direct approach for determining the switch points in the Karnik-Mendel algorithm" (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, C., Wu, D., Garibaldi, J. M., John, R., Twycross, J., & Mendel, J. M. (2018). A comment on "A direct approach for determining the switch points in the Karnik-Mendel algorithm". IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 26(6), 3905-3907. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2865134

This letter is a supplement to the previous paper “A Direct Approach for Determining the Switch Points in the Karnik-Mendel Algorithm”. In the previous paper, the enhanced iterative algorithm with stop condition (EIASC) was shown to be the most ineff... Read More about A comment on "A direct approach for determining the switch points in the Karnik-Mendel algorithm".

Type reduction operators for interval type–2 defuzzification (2018)
Journal Article
Runkler, T. A., Chen, C., & John, R. (2018). Type reduction operators for interval type–2 defuzzification. Information Sciences, 467, 464-476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2018.08.023

Fuzzy sets are an important approach to model uncertainty. Defuzzification maps fuzzy sets to non–fuzzy (crisp) values. Type–2 fuzzy sets model uncertainty in the degree of membership in a fuzzy set. Type–2 defuzzification maps type–2 fuzzy sets to n... Read More about Type reduction operators for interval type–2 defuzzification.

A first approach for handling uncertainty in citizen science (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Jiménez, M., Triguero, I., & John, R. (2018, July). A first approach for handling uncertainty in citizen science. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2018)

Citizen Science is coming to the forefront of scientific research as a valuable method for large-scale processing of data. New technologies in fields such as astronomy or bio-sciences generate tons of data, for which a thorough expert analysis is no... Read More about A first approach for handling uncertainty in citizen science.

Understanding information centric layer of adaptive collaborative caching framework in mobile disconnection-prone networks (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Huynh, V. S. H., Radenkovic, M., & John, R. (2018). Understanding information centric layer of adaptive collaborative caching framework in mobile disconnection-prone networks.

Smart networks and services leverage in-network caching to improve transmission efficiency and support large amount of content sharing, decrease high operating costs and handle disconnections. In this paper, we investigate the complex challenges rela... Read More about Understanding information centric layer of adaptive collaborative caching framework in mobile disconnection-prone networks.

Interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems - A comparative evaluation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Eyoh, I., John, R., & De Maere, G. (2018). Interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems - A comparative evaluation. In J. Medina, M. Ojeda-Aciego, J. L. Verdegay, D. A. Pelta, I. P. Cabrera, B. Bouchon-Meunier, & R. R. Yager (Eds.), Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Theory and Foundations. IPMU 2018 (687-698). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91473-2_58

Several fuzzy modeling techniques have been employed for handling uncertainties in data. This study presents a comparative evaluation of a new class of interval type-2 fuzzy logic system (IT2FLS) namely: interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic sys... Read More about Interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems - A comparative evaluation.

Move acceptance in local search metaheuristics for cross-domain search (2018)
Journal Article
Jackson, W. G., Özcan, E., & John, R. I. (2018). Move acceptance in local search metaheuristics for cross-domain search. Expert Systems with Applications, 131, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.05.006

Metaheuristics provide high-level instructions for designing heuristic optimisation algorithms and have been successfully applied to a range of computationally hard real-world problems. Local search metaheuristics operate under a single-point based s... Read More about Move acceptance in local search metaheuristics for cross-domain search.

Interval type-2 hesitant fuzzy set method for improving the service quality of domestic airlines in Turkey (2018)
Journal Article
Deveci, M., Özcan, E., John, R., & Öner, S. C. (2018). Interval type-2 hesitant fuzzy set method for improving the service quality of domestic airlines in Turkey. Journal of Air Transport Management, 69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.01.008

This study investigates the level of service quality of domestic airlines in Turkey travelling between Istanbul and London and compares those airline companies according to a set of predetermined criteria. A practical multi-criteria decision making a... Read More about Interval type-2 hesitant fuzzy set method for improving the service quality of domestic airlines in Turkey.

Input uncertainty sensitivity enhanced non-singleton fuzzy logic controllers for long-term navigation of quadrotor UAVs (2018)
Journal Article
Fu, C., Sarabakha, A., Kayacan, E., Wagner, C., John, R., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2018). Input uncertainty sensitivity enhanced non-singleton fuzzy logic controllers for long-term navigation of quadrotor UAVs. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 23(2), 725-734. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2018.2810947

Input uncertainty, e.g., noise on the on-board camera and inertial measurement unit, in vision-based control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an inevitable problem. In order to handle input uncertainties as well as further analyze the interactio... Read More about Input uncertainty sensitivity enhanced non-singleton fuzzy logic controllers for long-term navigation of quadrotor UAVs.

Type-2 fuzzy elliptic membership functions for modeling uncertainty (2018)
Journal Article
Kayacan, E., Sarabakha, A., Coupland, S., John, R., & Khanesard, M. A. (2018). Type-2 fuzzy elliptic membership functions for modeling uncertainty. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 70, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2018.02.004

Whereas type-1 and type-2 membership functions (MFs) are the core of any fuzzy logic system, there are no performance criteria available to evaluate the goodness or correctness of the fuzzy MFs. In this paper, we make extensive analysis in terms of t... Read More about Type-2 fuzzy elliptic membership functions for modeling uncertainty.

Hybrid learning for interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems as applied to identification and prediction problems (2018)
Journal Article
Eyoh, I., John, R., de Maere, G., & Kayacan, E. (2018). Hybrid learning for interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems as applied to identification and prediction problems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 26(5), 2672-2685. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2018.2803751

This paper presents a novel application of a hybrid learning approach to the optimisation of membership and non-membership functions of a newly developed interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic system (IT2 IFLS) of a Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy... Read More about Hybrid learning for interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy logic systems as applied to identification and prediction problems.