Cat Swarm with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Automated Soil Classification

Accurate soil prediction is a vital parameter involved to decide appro-priate crop,which is commonly carried out by the farmers.Designing an auto-mated soil prediction tool helps to considerably improve the efficacy of the farmers.At the same time,fuzzy logic(FL)approaches can be used for the design of predictive models,particularly,Fuzzy Cognitive Maps(FCMs)have involved the concept of uncertainty representation and cognitive mapping.In other words,the FCM is an integration of the recurrent neural network(RNN)and FL involved in the knowledge engineering phase.In this aspect,this paper introduces effective fuzzy cognitive maps with cat swarm optimization for automated soil classifica-tion(FCMCSO-ASC)technique.The goal of the FCMCSO-ASC technique is to identify and categorize seven different types of soil.To accomplish this,the FCMCSO-ASC technique incorporates local diagonal extrema pattern(LDEP)as a feature extractor for producing a collection of feature vectors.In addition,the FCMCSO model is applied for soil classification and the weight values of the FCM model are optimally adjusted by the use of CSO algorithm.For exam-ining the enhanced soil classification outcomes of the FCMCSO-ASC technique,a series of simulations were carried out on benchmark dataset and the experimen-tal outcomes reported the enhanced performance of the FCMCSO-ASC technique over the recent techniques with maximum accuracy of 96.84%.

A Data and Knowledge Collaboration Strategy for Decision-Making on the Amount of Aluminum Fluoride Addition Based on Augmented Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

In the aluminum reduction process, aluminum uoride (AlF3) is added to lower the liquidus temperature of the electrolyte and increase the electrolytic ef ciency. Making the decision on the amount of AlF3 addi- tion (referred to in this work as MDAAA) is a complex and knowledge-based task that must take into con- sideration a variety of interrelated functions;in practice, this decision-making step is performed manually. Due to technician subjectivity and the complexity of the aluminum reduction cell, it is dif cult to guarantee the accuracy of MDAAA based on knowledge-driven or data-driven methods alone. Existing strategies for MDAAA have dif culty covering these complex causalities. In this work, a data and knowl- edge collaboration strategy for MDAAA based on augmented fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) is proposed. In the proposed strategy, the fuzzy rules are extracted by extended fuzzy k-means (EFKM) and fuzzy deci- sion trees, which are used to amend the initial structure provided by experts. The state transition algo- rithm (STA) is introduced to detect weight matrices that lead the FCMs to desired steady states. This study then experimentally compares the proposed strategy with some existing research. The results of the comparison show that the speed of FCMs convergence into a stable region based on the STA using the proposed strategy is faster than when using the differential Hebbian learning (DHL), particle swarm optimization (PSO), or genetic algorithm (GA) strategies. In addition, the accuracy of MDAAA based on the proposed method is better than those based on other methods. Accordingly, this paper provides a feasible and effective strategy for MDAAA.

A situation awareness assessment method based on fuzzy cognitive maps

The status of an operator’s situation awareness is one of the critical factors that influence the quality of the missions.Thus the measurement method of the situation awareness status is an important topic to research.So far,there are lots of methods designed for the measurement of situation awareness status,but there is no model that can measure it accurately in real-time,so this work is conducted to deal with such a gap.Firstly,collect the relevant physiological data of operators while they are performing a specific mission,simultaneously,measure their status of situation awareness by using the situation awareness global assessment technique(SAGAT),which is known for accuracy but cannot be used in real-time.And then,after the preprocessing of the raw data,use the physiological data as features,the SAGAT’s results as a label to train a fuzzy cognitive map(FCM),which is an explainable and powerful intelligent model.Also,a hybrid learning algorithm of particle swarm optimization(PSO)and gradient descent is proposed for the FCM training.The final results show that the learned FCM can assess the status of situation awareness accurately in real-time,and the proposed hybrid learning algorithm has better efficiency and accuracy.

Using fuzzy cognitive maps to model performance measurement system of Internet-based supply chain

Fuzzy cognitive maps （FCM） is a well-established artificial intelligence technique, which can be effectively applied in the domains of performance measurement, decision making and other management science. FCM can be a useful tool in a group decision-making environment by using scientifically integrated expert knowledge. The theories of FCM and balance scorecard （BSC） both emphasize cause-and-effect relationships among indicators in a complex system, but few reports have been published addressing the combined application of these two techniques. In this paper we propose a FCM simulation model for the sample performance measurement system of Intemet-based supply chain, which is constructed by BSC theory. We gave examples to explain how FCM can be adapted to execute the causal mechanism of BSC, and also how FCM can support group decision-making and forecasting in performance measurement.

Application of fuzzy cognitive map in information intelligent push

Since computer system functions are becoming increasingly complex, the user has to spend much more time on the process of seeking information, instead of utilizing the required infor- mation. Information intelligent push technology could replace the traditional method to speed up the information retrieval process. The fuzzy cognitive map has strong knowledge representation ability and reasoning capability. Information intelligent push with the basis on fuzzy cognitive map could ab- stract the computer user＇ s operations to a fuzzy cognitive map, and infer the user＇ s operating inten- tions. The reasoning results will be translated into operational events, and drive the computer system to push appropriate information to the user.

A New Control Strategy for Modeling Wind Energy Systems Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Wind energy is currently a fast-growing interdisciplinary field that encompasses many different branches of engineering and science. Modeling and controlling wind energy systems are difficult and challenging problems. The basic structure of wind turbines and some wind control system methods are briefly reviewed. The need for using advanced theories from fuzzy and intelligent systems in studying wind energy systems is identified and justified. FCMs （fuzzy cognitive maps） are used to model wind energy systems. Simulation studies are performed and obtained results are discussed. A new mathematical approach has been proposed to model dynamical complex systems, the DYFUKN （dynamic fuzzy knowledge networks）. Many open problems in the areas of modeling and controlling wind energy systems are outlined.

Perception beyond sight:Investigating the cognitive maps of congenitally blind individuals in urban environments

This study explores the challenges faced by congenitally blind individuals in navigating urban environments.Specifically,this research investigates the factors that contribute to the construction of city mental mapping for individuals who are born blind.Thirty-one congenitally blind individuals from the University of Jordan were asked to define and describe specific elements of the city based on their personal experiences and imagination.Furthermore,participants were guided through two urban paths:familiar and unfamiliar.The participants were asked to complete a survey regarding their experiences during the tour.The collected data was analyzed by using thematic analysis.The results revealed that congenitally blind individuals construct their mental image of the city by using their three senses of touching,hearing,and smelling,as well as their safety and experience.This mental image consists of five key elements:links,reference points,areas,separators,and topography.Despite the small size of the study sample and the specificity of the context,the results of this study will tremendously help planners in designing highly inclusive urban environments.Incorporating characteristics that can be recognized by the blinds will enhance their accessibility of urban spaces,encourage independent mobility,increase the quality of life and social inclusion for them.

A fuzzy cognitive map-based algorithm for predicting water consumption in Spanish healthcare centres

The management of water consumption in healthcare centres can have positive impacts on both the environmental performance and profitability of health systems.Computational tools assist in the decision-making process of managing the operation and maintenance of healthcare centres.This research aimed to integrate the empirical knowledge of experts in Healthcare Engineering and the historical data from 66 healthcare centres in a Fuzzy Cognitive Map.The outputs of the predictive model included water consumption,water cost,and CO_(2) emissions in healthcare facilities,along with eleven variables to discover the causes and consequences of water consumption in healthcare centres.A healthcare centre with about 12350 users,located in a city that experiences an average of 1100 heating degree days,whose facilities be moderately energy-efficient contributing over 50%with renewable energies is expected to consume 8.4 dam^(3) of water with 32.1 k€of cost,and contribute realising 30.8 ton CO_(2)eq emissions.The use of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for prediction can provide a high level of effectiveness in identifying the factors that contribute to water consumption and in designing key performance indicators to manage the environmental performance of healthcare buildings.This tool is extremely effective in enhancing the performance of the management division of health systems.

Adaptive level of autonomy for human-UAVs collaborative surveillance using situated fuzzy cognitive maps

Collaborating with a squad of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)is challenging for a human operator in a cooperative surveillance task.In this paper,we propose a cognitive model that can dynamically adjust the Levels of Autonomy(LOA)of the human-UAVs team according to the changes in task complexity and human cognitive states.Specifically,we use the Situated Fuzzy Cognitive Map(Si FCM)to model the relations among tasks,situations,human states and LOA.A recurrent structure has been used to learn the strategy of adjusting the LOA,while the collaboration task is separated into a perception routine and a control routine.Experiment results have shown that the workload of the human operator is well balanced with the task efficiency.

Cooperative Threat Assessment of Multi-aircrafts Based on Synthetic Fuzzy Cognitive Map

Threat assessment is one of the most important parts of the tactical decisions,and it has a very important influence on task allocation.An application of fuzzy cognitive map(FCM) for target threat assessment in the air combat is introduced.Considering the fact that the aircrafts participated in the cooperation may not have the same threat assessment mechanism,two different FCM models are established.Using the method of combination,the model of cooperative threat assessment in air combat of multi-aircrafts is established.Simulation results show preliminarily that the method is reasonable and effective.Using FCM for threat assessment is feasible.

A Map Construction Method Based on the Cognitive Mechanism of Rat Brain Hippocampus

The entorhinal-hippocampus structure in the mammalian brain is the core area for realizing spatial cognition.However,the visual perception and loop detection methods in the current biomimetic robot navigation model still rely on traditional visual SLAM schemes and lack the process of exploring and applying biological visual methods.Based on this,we propose amap constructionmethod thatmimics the entorhinal-hippocampal cognitive mechanismof the rat brain according to the response of entorhinal cortex neurons to eye saccades in recent related studies.That is,when mammals are free to watch the scene,the entorhinal cortex neurons will encode the saccade position of the eyeball to realize the episodicmemory function.The characteristics of thismodel are as follows:1)A scenememory algorithmthat relies on visual saccade vectors is constructed to imitate the biological brain’s memory of environmental situation information matches the current scene information with the memory;2)According to the information transmission mechanism formed by the hippocampus and the activation theory of spatial cells,a localization model based on the grid cells of the entorhinal cortex and the place cells of the hippocampus was constructed;3)Finally,the scene memory algorithm is used to correct the errors of the positioning model and complete the process of constructing the cognitive map.The model was subjected to simulation experiments on publicly available datasets and physical experiments using a mobile robot platform to verify the environmental adaptability and robustness of the algorithm.The algorithm will provide a basis for further research into bionic robot navigation.

Unsupervised Dynamic Fuzzy Cognitive Map

Fuzzy Cognitive Map （FCM） is an inference network, which uses cyclic digraphs for knowledge representation and reasoning. Along with the extensive applications of FCMs, there are some limitations that emerge due to the deficiencies associated with FCM itself. In order to eliminate these deficiencies, we propose an unsupervised dynamic fuzzy cognitive map using behaviors and nonlinear relationships. In this model, we introduce dynamic weights and trend-effects to make the model more reasonable. Data credibility is also considered while establishing a machine learning model. Subsequently, we develop an optimized Estimation of Distribution Algorithm （EDA） for weight learning. Experimental results show the practicability of the dynamic FCM model. In comparison to the other existing algorithms, the proposed algorithm has better performance in terms of convergence and stability.

An Intelligent Medical Expert System Using Temporal Fuzzy Rules and Neural Classifier

As per World Health Organization report which was released in the year of 2019,Diabetes claimed the lives of approximately 1.5 million individuals globally in 2019 and around 450 million people are affected by diabetes all over the world.Hence it is inferred that diabetes is rampant across the world with the majority of the world population being affected by it.Among the diabetics,it can be observed that a large number of people had failed to identify their disease in the initial stage itself and hence the disease level moved from Type-1 to Type-2.To avoid this situation,we propose a new fuzzy logic based neural classifier for early detection of diabetes.A set of new neuro-fuzzy rules is introduced with time constraints that are applied for thefirst level classification.These levels are further refined by using the Fuzzy Cognitive Maps(FCM)with time intervals for making thefinal decision over the classification process.The main objective of this proposed model is to detect the diabetes level based on the time.Also,the set of neuro-fuzzy rules are used for selecting the most contributing values over the decision-making process in diabetes prediction.The proposed model proved its efficiency in performance after experiments conducted not only from the repository but also by using the standard diabetic detection models that are available in the market.

Adaptive QoS Management for Mobile Cloud Services

The rapid growth of cloud computing and mobile Internet services has triggered the emergence of mobile cloud services. Among many challenges,QoS management is one of the crucial issues for mobile cloud services. However,existing works on QoS management for cloud computing can hardly fit well to the mobile environment. This paper presents a QoS management architecture and an adaptive management process that can predict,assess and ensure QoS of mobile cloud services. Furthermore,we propose an adaptive QoS management model based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps ( FCM) ,which suitably represents the causal relationships among QoS related properties and cloud service modes. We evaluate the proposed solution and demonstrate its effectiveness and benefits based on simulation work.

Risk transmission evaluation for parallel construction of warships based on IFCM and the cloud model

To cope with multi-directional transmission coupling,spreading, amplification, and chain reaction of risks during multiproject parallel construction of warships, a risk transmission evaluation method is proposed, which integrates an intuitionistic cloud model with a fuzzy cognitive map. By virtue of expectancy Ex, entropy En, and hyper entropy He, the risk fuzziness and randomness of the knowledge of experts are organically combined to develop a method for converting bi-linguistic variable decision-making information into the quantitative information of the intuitionistic normal cloud(INC) model. Subsequently, the threshold function and weighted summation operation in the traditional fuzzy cognitive map is converted into the INC ordered weighted averaging operator to create the risk transmission model based on the intuitionistic fuzzy cognitive map(IFCM) and the algorithm for solving it. Subsequently, the risk influence sequencing method based on INC and the risk rating method based on nearness are proposed on the basis of Monte Carlo simulation in order to realize the mutual conversion of the qualitative and quantitative information in the risk evaluation results.Example analysis is presented to verify the effectiveness and practicality of the methods.

An integrated new threshold FCMs Markov chain based forecasting model for analyzing the power of stock trading trend

This paper explores the power of stock trading trend using an integrated New ThresholdFuzzy Cognitive Maps(NTFCMs)Markov chain model.This new model captures thepositive as well as the negative jumps and predicts the trend for different stocks over 4months which follow an uptrend,downtrend and a mixed trend.The mean absolute percent error(MAPE)tolerance limits,the root mean square error(RMSE)tolerance limits aredetermined for various stock indices over a multi-timeframe period and observed for theexisting methods lying within the defined limits.The results show for every‘n’number ofpredictions made,the predicted close value of the day’s stock price was within tolerancelimit with 0%error and with 100%accuracy in predicting the future trend.

Peer selecting model based on FCM for wireless distributed P2P files sharing systems

IIn order to improve the performance of wireless distributed peer-to-peer(P2P)files sharing systems,a general system architecture and a novel peer selecting model based on fuzzy cognitive maps(FCM)are proposed in this paper.The new model provides an effective approach on choosing an optimal peer from several resource discovering results for the best file transfer.Compared with the traditional min-hops scheme that uses hops as the only selecting criterion,the proposed model uses FCM to investigate the complex relationships among various relative factors in wireless environments and gives an overall evaluation score on the candidate.It also has strong scalability for being independent of specified P2P resource discovering protocols.Furthermore,a complete implementation is explained in concrete modules.The simulation results show that the proposed model is effective and feasible compared with min-hops scheme,with the success transfer rate increased by at least 20% and transfer time improved as high as 34%.

Knowledge Map： Mathematical Model and Dynamic Behaviors

Knowledge representation and reasoning is a key issue of the Knowledge Grid. This paper proposes a Knowledge Map (KM) model for representing and reasoning causal knowledge as an overlay in the Knowledge Grid. It extends Fuzzy Cognitive, Maps (FCMs) to represent and reason not only simple cause-effect relations, but also time-delay causal relations, conditional probabilistic causal relations and sequential relations. The mathematical model and dynamic behaviors of KM are presented. Experiments show that, under certain conditions, the dynamic behaviors of KM can translate between different states. Knowing this condition, experts can control or modify the constructed KM while its dynamic behaviors do not accord with their expectation. Simulations and applications show that KM is more powerful and natural than FCM in emulating real world.

Hybrid-augmented intelligence： collaboration and cognition

The long-term goal of artificial intelligence （AI） is to make machines learn and think like human beings. Due to the high levels of uncertainty and vulnerability in human life and the open-ended nature of problems that humans are facing, no matter how intelligent machines are, they are unable to completely replace humans. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce human cognitive capabilities or human-like cognitive models into AI systems to develop a new form of AI, that is, hybrid-augmented intelligence. This form of AI or machine intelligence is a feasible and important developing model. Hybrid-augmented intelligence can be divided into two basic models： one is human-in-the-loop augmented intelligence with human-computer collaboration, and the other is cognitive computing based augmented intelligence, in which a cognitive model is embedded in the machine learning system. This survey describes a basic framework for human-computer collaborative hybrid-augmented intelligence, and the basic elements of hybrid-augmented intelligence based on cognitive computing. These elements include intuitive reasoning, causal models, evolution of memory and knowledge, especially the role and basic principles of intuitive reasoning for complex problem solving, and the cognitive learning framework for visual scene understanding based on memory and reasoning. Several typical applications of hybrid-augmented intelligence in related fields are given.

A Brain-inspired SLAM System Based on ORB Features

This paper describes a brain-inspired simultaneous localization and mapping （SLAM） system using oriented features from accelerated segment test and rotated binary robust independent elementary （ORB） features of RGB （red, green, blue） sensor for a mobile robot. The core SLAM system, dubbed RatSLAM, can construct a cognitive map using information of raw odometry and visual scenes in the path traveled. Different from existing RatSLAM system which only uses a simple vector to represent features of visual image, in this paper, we employ an efficient and very fast descriptor method, called ORB, to extract features from RCB images. Experiments show that these features are suitable to recognize the sequences of familiar visual scenes. Thus, while loop closure errors are detected, the descriptive features will help to modify the pose estimation by driving loop closure and localization in a map correction algorithm. Efficiency and robustness of our method are also demonstrated by comparing with different visual processing algorithms.