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DECSYS - Discrete and Ellipse-based response Capture SYStem (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ellerby, Z., McCulloch, J., Young, J., & Wagner, C. (2019). DECSYS - Discrete and Ellipse-based response Capture SYStem. . https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858996

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
McCulloch, J., Ellerby, Z., & Wagner, C. (2019). On Comparing and Selecting Approaches to Model Interval-Valued Data as Fuzzy Sets. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858993

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.

On the Relationship between Similarity Measures and Thresholds of Statistical Significance in the Context of Comparing Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Journal Article
McCulloch, J., Ellerby, Z., & Wagner, C. (2019). On the Relationship between Similarity Measures and Thresholds of Statistical Significance in the Context of Comparing Fuzzy Sets. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2922161

Comparing fuzzy sets by computing their similarity is common, with a large set of measures of similarity available. However, while commonplace in the computational intelligence community, the application and results of similarity measures are less co... Read More about On the Relationship between Similarity Measures and Thresholds of Statistical Significance in the Context of Comparing Fuzzy Sets.

Similarity between interval-valued fuzzy sets taking into account the width of the intervals and admissible orders (2019)
Journal Article
Bustince, H., Marco-Detchart, C., Fernandez, J., Wagner, C., Garibaldi, J., & Takáč, Z. (2019). Similarity between interval-valued fuzzy sets taking into account the width of the intervals and admissible orders. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2019.04.002

In this work we study a new class of similarity measures between interval-valued fuzzy sets. The novelty of our approach lays, firstly, on the fact that we develop all the notions with respect to total orders of intervals; and secondly, on that we co... Read More about Similarity between interval-valued fuzzy sets taking into account the width of the intervals and admissible orders.

Agent-Based Simulation Modelling for Reflecting on Consequences of Digital Mental Health (2019)
Working Paper
Stroud, D., Wagner, C., & Siebers, P. Agent-Based Simulation Modelling for Reflecting on Consequences of Digital Mental Health

The premise of this working paper is based around agent-based simulation models and how to go about creating them from given incomplete information. Agent-based simulations are stochastic simulations that revolve around groups of agents that each hav... Read More about Agent-Based Simulation Modelling for Reflecting on Consequences of Digital Mental Health.

Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rosli Razak, T. R., Garibaldi, J. M., Wagner, C., Pourabdollah, A., & Soria, D. (2018). Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE-SSCI 2018) (420-426). https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI.2018.8628924

In recent years, researchers have become increasingly more interested in designing an interpretable Fuzzy Logic System (FLS). Many studies have claimed that reducing the complexity of FLSs can lead to improved model interpretability. That is, reducin... Read More about Interpretability and Complexity of Design in the Creation of Fuzzy Logic Systems - A User Study.

Measuring the directional or non-directional distance between type-1 and type-2 fuzzy sets with complex membership functions (2018)
Journal Article
McCulloch, J., & Wagner, C. (2019). Measuring the directional or non-directional distance between type-1 and type-2 fuzzy sets with complex membership functions. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 27(7), 1506-1515. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2018.2882342

Fuzzy sets may have complex, non-normal or non-convex membership functions that occur, for example, in the output of a fuzzy logic system or when automatically generating fuzzy sets from data. Measuring the distance between such non-standard fuzzy se... Read More about Measuring the directional or non-directional distance between type-1 and type-2 fuzzy sets with complex membership functions.

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.

Noise Parameter Estimation for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Pekaslan, D., Garibaldi, J. M., & Wagner, C. (2018). Noise Parameter Estimation for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) ( 2960-2965). https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2018.00503

Real-world environments face a wide range of noise (uncertainty) sources and gaining insight into the level of noise is a critical part of many applications. While Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (NSFLSs), in particular recently introduced advanced... Read More about Noise Parameter Estimation for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems.

A multi valued emotion lexicon created and evaluated by the crowd (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Haralabopoulos, G., Wagner, C., McAuley, D., & Simperl, E. (2018, October). A multi valued emotion lexicon created and evaluated by the crowd. Paper presented at Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2018)

Sentiment analysis aims to uncover emotions conveyed through information. In its simplest form, it is performed on a polarity basis, where the goal is to classify information with positive or negative emotion. Recent research has explored more nuance... Read More about A multi valued emotion lexicon created and evaluated by the crowd.

Exploring subsethood to determine firing strength in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Pekaslan, D., Garibaldi, J. M., & Wagner, C. (2018). Exploring subsethood to determine firing strength in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems.

Real world environments face a wide range of sources of noise and uncertainty. Thus, the ability to handle various uncertainties, including noise, becomes an indispensable element of automated decision making. Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems (NSFLS... Read More about Exploring subsethood to determine firing strength in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems.

Comparison of fuzzy integral-fuzzy measure based ensemble algorithms with the state-of-the-art ensemble algorithms (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Agrawal, U., Pinar, A. J., Wagner, C., Havens, T. C., Soria, D., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2018). Comparison of fuzzy integral-fuzzy measure based ensemble algorithms with the state-of-the-art ensemble algorithms.

The Fuzzy Integral (FI) is a non-linear aggregation operator which enables the fusion of information from multiple sources in respect to a Fuzzy Measure (FM) which captures the worth of both the individual sources and all their possible combinations.... Read More about Comparison of fuzzy integral-fuzzy measure based ensemble algorithms with the state-of-the-art ensemble algorithms.

Efficient binary fuzzy measure representation and Choquet integral learning (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Islam, M. A., Anderson, D. T., Du, X., Havens, T. C., & Wagner, C. (2018). Efficient binary fuzzy measure representation and Choquet integral learning. In Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Theory and Foundations (115-126). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91473-2_10

The Choquet integral (ChI), a parametric function for information aggregation, is parameterized by the fuzzy measure (FM), which has 2N real-valued variables for N inputs. However, the ChI incurs huge storage and computational burden due to its expon... Read More about Efficient binary fuzzy measure representation and Choquet integral learning.

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.

Determining firing strengths through a novel similarity measure to enhance uncertainty handling in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Pekaslan, D., Kabir, S., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2017). Determining firing strengths through a novel similarity measure to enhance uncertainty handling in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems. In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 0IJCCI (83-90). https://doi.org/10.5220/0006502000830090

Non-singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems have the potential to tackle uncertainty within the design of fuzzy systems. The inference process has a major role in determining results, being partly based on the interaction of input and antecedent fuzzy sets (in... Read More about Determining firing strengths through a novel similarity measure to enhance uncertainty handling in non-singleton fuzzy logic systems.

Linking sensory perceptions and physical properties of orange drinks (2017)
Conference Proceeding
McCulloch, J., Isaev, S., Bachour, K., Jreissat, M., Wagner, C., & Makatsoris, C. (2017). Linking sensory perceptions and physical properties of orange drinks.

This paper investigates if sensory perceptions of orange drinks (e.g., acidity, thickness, wateriness) can be linked to physical measurements (e.g., pH, particle size, density). Using this information, manufactured drinks can be tailored according to... Read More about Linking sensory perceptions and physical properties of orange drinks.

The arithmetic recursive average as an instance of the recursive weighted power mean (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Wagner, C., Havens, T. C., & Anderson, D. T. (2017). The arithmetic recursive average as an instance of the recursive weighted power mean. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015507

The aggregation of multiple information sources has a long history and ranges from sensor fusion to the aggregation of individual algorithm outputs and human knowledge. A popular approach to achieve such aggregation is the fuzzy integral (FI) which i... Read More about The arithmetic recursive average as an instance of the recursive weighted power mean.

Novel similarity measure for interval-valued data based on overlapping ratio (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Kabir, S., Wagner, C., Havens, T. C., Anderson, D. T., & Aickelin, U. (2017). Novel similarity measure for interval-valued data based on overlapping ratio. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015623

In computing the similarity of intervals, current similarity measures such as the commonly used Jaccard and Dice measures are at times not sensitive to changes in the width of intervals, producing equal similarities for substantially different pairs... Read More about Novel similarity measure for interval-valued data based on overlapping ratio.

Efficient modeling and representation of agreement in interval-valued data (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Havens, T. C., Wagner, C., & Anderson, D. T. (2017). Efficient modeling and representation of agreement in interval-valued data. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015466

Recently, there has been much research into effective representation and analysis of uncertainty in human responses, with applications in cyber-security, forest and wildlife management, and product development, to name a few. Most of this research ha... Read More about Efficient modeling and representation of agreement in interval-valued data.

Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Madi, E., Garibaldi, J. M., & Wagner, C. (2017). Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015664

Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems are a well known category of decision making problem that has received much attention in the literature, with a key approach being the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPS... Read More about Exploring the use of type-2 fuzzy sets in multi-criteria decision making based on TOPSIS.