• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.8 no.3 s.29
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• pp.63-76
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• 2006

For a private toll road project, deciding optimal toll is an important element of economic analysis for the project and a challengeable work. In this study, the optimal toll of a private toll bridge, Geoga Bridge which connects Geoje Island of Gyeongnam Province and Gaduk Island of Busan was estimated using Stated Preference (SP) data. The SP data were collected by interviewing the passenger car drivers travelling on the National Road 14. They are latent users of the bridge. A fuzzy approximate reasoning model to estimate the optimal toll was built using the SP data. For the input variable of the model, the saved travel time and toll level were employed and the diversion rate to the bridge was employed for the output variable. The diversion rates for each toll level and saved travel time were estimated and the toll level which had maximized the toll revenue was decided as optimal toll. The optimal toll was tested by comparing with the average pay rate of passenger car drivers. Since the optimal toll for passenger cars at one hour saving, the 6,250 won is about 50 % of the average pay rate of passenger car divers, the toll was evaluated not to be high. The technique employed in this study may be used for the estimation of the optimal tolls for other kinds of vehicles.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.2D
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• pp.241-250
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• 2006

Although walking is an important transport mode which should be promoted, realistic studies about walking is not sufficient. Especially, due to the transportation planning oriented toward automobile, there is not realistic analysis method for walking in the Highway Capacity Manual. Therefore, in this study the fuzzy approximate reasoning was employed to build a model for the analysis of walkways service level. For the input variable the noise level and brightness as well as the pedestrian flow rate were employed and the output variable was the walking satisfaction degree. The fuzzy models were constructed for daytime and nighttime separately. The forecastability analysis for the models were conducted using $R^2$, MAE and MSE. The values of them for the daytime model are 0.802, 0.729 and 0.735 respectively and the values for nighttime are 0.893, 0.878 and 0.860 respectively, so it can be said that the models explain the real situation well. As a result of this study, it can be concluded that the noise level has stronger effects to walking satisfaction then the brightness in night.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.198-202
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• 2006

In this paper, we introduce Baldwin's approximate reasoning with fuzzy logic and some truth function mappings usually used in Baldwin's method. And we introduce some assessment criteria for approximate reasonings and we define some truth function mappings which satisfy more criteria than those which are already known.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.99-110
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 인간의 판단과 유산한 구조를 갖는 퍼지근사추론모형(FARM)을 구축하여 교통수단 선택형태에 적용하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 먼저 근사추론모형의 이론적 배경을 살펴보고 버스와 지하철간의 수단선택 모형을 구축하였다. 입력변수로 버스와 지하철간의 총통행시간의 차이와 총통행비용의 차이를 선정하였으며 출력변수로 버스이용확률을 사용하였다. 각 변수에 대한 퍼지집합은 각각 5개씩의 언어적 인 표현으로 구성하였으며, 규칙은 총 25개로 설정하였다, 구축된모형의 현실적 타당성을 검토하기 위해 서 실제 조사자료와 비교하였다. 분석결과 본 연구에서 구축된 퍼지근사추론모형이 통행자들의 수단선택 행태를 현실적으로 설명하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.34-41
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• 1992

A robust and reliable learning and reasoning mechanism is addressed based upon fuzzy set theory and fuzzy associative memories. The mechanism stores a priori an initial knowledge base via approximate learning and utilizes this information for decision-making systems via fuzzy inferencing. We called this fuzzy computer architecture a 'fuzzy hypercube' processing all the rules in one clock period in parallel. Fuzzy hypercubes can be applied to control of a class of complex and highly nonlinear systems which suffer from vagueness uncertainty. Moreover, evidential aspects of a fuzzy hypercube are treated to assess the degree of certainty or reliability together with parameter sensitivity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.579-584
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• 1998

In this work, we present a method to deal with the interval valued decision making systems. First, we propose a new type of equality measure based on the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator. The proposed equality measure has a structure to render the extreme values of the measure by choosing a suitable weighting vector of the OWA operator. From this property, we derive a bidirectional fuzzy inference network which can be applied for the decisionmaking systems requiring the inverval valued decisions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07c
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• pp.1239-1241
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose real time transient stability assessment and energy margin estimation using fuzzy approximate reasoning. The proposed method used rotor angle, kinetic energy and acceleration power of generators at clearing time as fuzzy input. In order to calculate energy margin in transient energy function (TEF), we obtained controlling unstable equilibrium point (UEP) using mode of disturbance procedure (MOD). The proposed algorithm is tested on 4-machine, 6-bus, 7-line power system to prove of effectiveness.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.955-969
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• 1998

Engineering problems are inherently imprecision tolerant. Biologically inspired soft computing methods are emerging as ideal tools for constructing intelligent engineering systems which employ approximate reasoning and exhibit imprecision tolerance. They also offer built-in mechanisms for dealing with uncertainty. The fundamental issues associated with engineering applications of the emerging soft computing methods are discussed, with emphasis on neural networks. A formalism for neural network representation is presented and recent developments on adaptive modeling of neural networks, specifically nested adaptive neural networks for constitutive modeling are discussed.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.91-109
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• 2004

This study investigates the effectiveness of a hybrid approach using fuzzy sets that describe approximate phenomena of the real world. Compared to the other existing techniques, the approach handles inexact knowledge in common linguistic terms as human reasoning does it. Integration of fuzzy sets with case-based reasoning (CBR) is important in that it helps to develop a successful system far dealing with vague and incomplete knowledge which statistically uses membership value of fuzzy sets in CBR. The preliminary results show that the accuracy of the integrated fuzzy-CBR approach proposed for this study is higher that of conventional techniques. Our proposed approach is applied to corporate bond rating of Korean companies.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.8D no.3
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• pp.203-210
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• 2001

These days data is being collected and accumulated in a wide variety of fields. Stored data itself is to be an information system which helps us to make decisions. An information system includes many kinds of necessary and unnecessary attribute. So many algorithms have been developed for finding useful patterns from the data and reasoning approximately new objects. We are interested in the simple and understandable rules that can represent useful patterns. In this paper we propose an algorithm which can reduce the information in the system to a minimum, based on a probabilistic rough set theory. The proposed algorithm uses a value that tolerates accuracy of classification. The tolerant value helps minimizing the necessary attribute which is needed to reason a new object by reducing conditional attributes. It has the advantage that it reduces the time of generalizing rules. We experiment a proposed algorithm with the IRIS data and Wisconsin Breast Cancer data. The experiment results show that this algorithm retrieves a small reduct, and minimizes the size of the rule under the tolerant classification rate.