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... APPLICATIONS OF BIMATRICES TO SOME FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC MODELS W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics India... ...SOME FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC MODELS W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 60003... ....ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-mail... ... ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road ... ... Bimatrices 23 Chapter Three APPLICATION OF BIMATRICES TO NEW FUZZY MODELS 3.1. Definition of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps 71 3.2. Fuzzy Cognit... ...NEUTROSOPHIC BIGRAPHS THEIR GENERALIZATIONS AND APPLICATIONS TO NEUTROSOPHIC MODELS 4.1 Some Basics of Neutrosophic graphs 151 4.2 Neutrosophi... ... Jose A. B. Tomè. Rule based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps -- Fuzzy Causal Relations, Computational Intelligence Modelling, Control and Automaton, Edited by... ...er. Simulating Organizational Behaviour with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Int. J. of Computational Intelligence and Organization, 1, 120-123, 1996. 34. Di... ...ian Modeling of User's Web Behaviour, Invited Paper, International Journal of Computation Cognition, (http://www.YangSky.com/yangijcc.htm) 1, 51-92,...

...Graphs and matrices play a vital role in the analysis and study of several of the real world problems which are based only on unsupervised data. The fuzzy and neutrosophic tools like fuzzy cognitive maps invented by Kosko and neutrosophic cognitive maps introduced by us help in the analy...

...ophic Algebraic Structures and Their Application to Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Models W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian ... ...to Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Models W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036,... ...c.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-mail: ... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann A... ...er Two SOME BASIC RESULTS ON GRAPH THEORY AND THEIR APPLICATION TO FUZZY MODELS 2.1 Some basics on Graphs 18 2.2. More Properties on Graph... ...nian Graphs 44 2.7 Graph Colorings 52 2.8 Application of Graphs to Fuzzy Models 56 Chapter Three NEUTROSOPHIC GRAPHS AND THEIR APPLICATIO... .... Simulating Organizational Behaviour with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Int. J. of Computational Intelligence and Organization, 1 (1996) 120-123. 14. De B... ...n Modeling of User's Web Behaviour, Invited Paper, International Journal of Computation Cognition, 1 (Sept. 2003), 51-92. Article published electron...

...introduction of neutrosophic theory has put forth a significant concept by giving representation to indeterminates. Uncertainty or indeterminacy happen to be one of the major factors in almost all real-world problems. When uncertainty is ...

... INTRODUCTION TO BIMATRICES W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036,... ...c.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-mail: ... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann A... ...face Matrix theory has been one of the most utilised concepts in fuzzy models and neutrosophic models. From solving equations to characterising... ...rators, matrices are used. Matrices find their applications in several real models. In fact it is not an exaggeration if one says that matrix theory... ...acy we construct neutrosophic bimatrices, which can be used in neutrosophic models. By no means we make any claim that the concept of indeterminac... ... some particular structure of A B which is of interest. (3) It simplifies computation. Example 1.4.2: Let A B = A 1 ∪ A 2 be a bimatrix i.e.... ...ate bimatrix of α = ( α 1 α 2 ) in the ordered basis (B 1 , B 2 ) then the computation above shows A X is the co ordinate bimatrix of the vector T ... ... bimatrix we must have C = BA. One can also verify this by carrying out the computation (UT) ( α j ) = U (T( α j )) = 12 jj U(T( , ) ) α...

...Matrix theory has been one of the most utilised concepts in fuzzy models and neutrosophic models. From solving equations to characterising linear transformations or linear operators, matrices are used. Matrices find their applications in several real...

...Matrices provide a very powerful tool for dealing with linear models. Bimatrices which we are going to define in this chapter are still a powerful and an advanced tool which can handle over one linear model at a time. Bimatrices will be useful when time bound comparisons are needed in...

... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic L... ...phic Probability and Statistics University of New Mexico - Gallup 1-3 December 2001 (sec... ... (second printed edition) FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE editor PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC ... ...ich are used “to describe computer-based problem solving systems which employ computational models of some of the known mechanisms of evolution as k... ...to describe computer-based problem solving systems which employ computational models of some of the known mechanisms of evolution as key elements in... ...ty with the classical probability theory, with boolean logic and has a feasible computational complexity [46] for problems of small dimension. The DST... ...eterogeneous sources for object identification and tracking, network reliability computation, multisensor image segmentation, autonomous navigation, sa... ...ions and the DST belief functions is currently a hot topic of research. Several models have been developed for fitting belief functions with experiment... ...sence of new data [3]. Similar oscillations were demonstrated by computational models of human working memory that treated mental process as a “deba...

...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human sy...

... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re... ... PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Exist... ...tropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Existence V. The Decoherence of Measurement VI. The Quantum of Continuity VII. Quantum Mecha... ...le can become complex and the complex reduced to the simple? Is it only a matter of computation? We can resolve these apparent contradictions by clo... ...lex (the same way all particles are contained in all other particles). Still, these models merely reflect choices of descriptive language, with no b... ...ller (until they become negligible) the "higher" we climb the order hierarchy. The computation of the first few diagrams should be yield an outcome... ...g ganzfeld sensory deprivation experiments); (2) The emergence of counter-intuitive models of reality, especially in physics, incorporating such con... ... dimensions, observer effects ("mind over matter"), and creation ex nihilo. These models are badly understood by laymen and have led to the ostens... ... developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods ...

...S AND NEUTROSOPHIC RELATIONAL MAPS W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600... ...tm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-ma... ...m: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, A... ...of genetic algorithms cannot provide measurement for the performance empirical computational testing is necessary. Test problems for computational ... ...icient set. A system of FRE may be manipulated in a way such that the required computational effort of the proposed genetic algorithm is reduced. D... ...function equal to R = I N k k y k x 1 )) ( ) ( ( = → . (4) Note that the computations involve an intersection of the individual fuzzy relatio... ...ine outputs for a given set of inputs without using conventional, mathematical models. FLC follows the general strategy of control worked out by a ... ...ns. According to the interpretation we have in mind, it will lead to different models with different interpretations of the results. In this framew... ...l equations is always solvable. The motivation here is to obtain fuzzy relation models of real processes [84]. A set of rules is created, which desc...

...The aim of this book is two fold. At the outset the book gives most of the available literature about Fuzzy Relational Equations (FREs) and its properties for there is no book that solely caters to FREs and its applications. Though w...

...S AND NEUTROSOPHIC RELATIONAL MAPS W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600... ...tm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-ma... ...m: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, A... ...of genetic algorithms cannot provide measurement for the performance empirical computational testing is necessary. Test problems for computational ... ...icient set. A system of FRE may be manipulated in a way such that the required computational effort of the proposed genetic algorithm is reduced. D... ...function equal to R = I N k k y k x 1 )) ( ) ( ( = → . (4) Note that the computations involve an intersection of the individual fuzzy relatio... ...ine outputs for a given set of inputs without using conventional, mathematical models. FLC follows the general strategy of control worked out by a ... ...ns. According to the interpretation we have in mind, it will lead to different models with different interpretations of the results. In this framew... ...l equations is always solvable. The motivation here is to obtain fuzzy relation models of real processes [84]. A set of rules is created, which desc...

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... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ...tures in economics - or something is very flawed with the intellectual pillars and models of this field. Neo-classical economics has failed on sev... ...y be too multi-dimensional and hyper- complex to be usefully captured by econometric models. These either lack predictive powers or lapse into logica... ...nstitutes their subject matter. Is economics about the construction and testing of models in accordance with certain basic assumptions? Or should i... ... developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods ... ... human seems to restrict possible equivalents. Inasmuch as computers emulate human computation (Turing did believe so when he helped construct the ...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

...ROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS XIQUAN Phoenix 2003 CARE OF THE AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENT... ...E AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF AIDS EPIDEMIC MEDICAL TREATMENT OF AIDS PATIENTS SOCIAL ... ...and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, I... ...f Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) 7 1.2 Fuzzy Cognitive Maps – Properties and Models 10 1.3 Some more illustrations of FCMs 26 1.4 Applications of FCMs... ...3 1.5 Definition and Illustration of Fuzzy Relational Maps (FRMs) 93 1.6 Models illustrating FRM and combined FRMs 96 1.7 Linked Fuzzy Relational M... ...call the definition of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, suggest properties about FCM models and give illustrations. We give details about the multifarious appl... ...tors. The implementation of this concept in our system requires different computation for vectors, which are directly related, and vectors, which ar... ... 62 entails an increased use of memory storage in the computer, but the computation for causal inferences is greatly facilitated. Park and Ki... ...t Kardaras and Mentzas [48] introduce Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) as a computational modeling formalism which tackles the complexity and allows th...

...In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an e...

...W. B. VASANTHA KANDASAMY FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY ... ...ce To Rural Tamilnadu In India XIQUAN Phoenix 2004 ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY T... ...rence To Rural Tamilnadu In India W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, I... ...eterminate relations is carried out mainly and solely by the neutrosophic models. We in this book have for the first time adopted the neutrosophic m... ... affected patients who are migrant labourers. In our opinion neutrosophic models in the study of this problems would be better than the fuzzy models... ... also give the answer as indeterminate for some relations, where as fuzzy models can say the existence or non existence of any relation only. Thus w... ...rience to future events. Neural networks or neuro-computing or brain like computation is based on the wistful hope that we can reproduce at least so... ... for human categorization with a great deal of psychological support. The computational strategy leads to some curious human psychology. For instanc... ...where human showed comparable strengths and weaknesses in their cognitive computations”. For this reason until quite recently most of the study of n...

...In this book for the first time we have ventured into the total analysis of migrant labourers in rural Tamil Nadu who are victims of HIV/AIDS using FCM, BAM and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps. As in our study and analysis we felt several of the factors related with the psycho, socio, economic problem...

...Migration acquires great significance in the study of peoples and populations, for it not only involves the merely mathematical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political stabil...

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... 1 1 HEXIS Phoenix 2005 1 Sukanto Bhattacharya Department of Business Administration Alaska Pacific University, U.S.A. Ut... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...ib.umi.com/bod/search/basic Peer Reviewers: 1) Liu Feng, School of Information, Xi'an University of Finance and Economics, (Xi'an caijing ... ...able academic supervisor - taking time to sift through pages and pages of computational results and offering his invaluable advice as and where he d... ... ... 37 3. Exploring the Biological Basis of Utility Functions – Computational Implementation of a Genetic Algorithm Scheme to Illustr... ... ... 107 (iii). Computational exposition of the proposed information theoretic utility ... ...k-return trade-off in some of the most celebrated modern portfolio theory models (e.g. Markowitz, 1952; Sharpe, 1964; Ross, 1976 etc.). Also it may ... ...or part of the work attempts to build on existing, established theoretical models by incorporating additional mechanisms within the existing framewor... ...n the existing framework. Though based extensively on intuitive-cognitive models, our approach is predominantly numerate and substantiated by rigoro...

...This work covers a substantial mosaic of related concepts in utility theory as applied to financial decision-making. It reviews some of the classical notions of Benthamite utility and the normative utility paradigm offered by the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected ...

...ace by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 ... ...nifying field in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 11... ...painter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treated subject was of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. He had generalized the... ...d disequilibrium of systems. His Orientation Table comprises seven basic models: M o d e l M 1 (which is 100% stable) M o d e l M 2 (which i... ...pretable as actions, with two operators: [ !]A = after every terminating computation according to ! it is the case that A; < !>A = after some term... ...ion according to ! it is the case that A; < !>A = after some terminating computation according to ! it is the case that A, and it is used in the ve... ...are used “to describe computer-based problem solving systems which employ computational models of some of the known mechanisms of evolution as key el... ...escribe computer-based problem solving systems which employ computational models of some of the known mechanisms of evolution as key elements in thei... ... neural networks, automated reasoning, quantum physics, and probabilistic models. Dempster-Shafer Theory doesn’t work for some classes of examples...

...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an...

...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

... Smarandache Manifolds Howard Iseri Associate Professor of Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Computer Information ... ...ess Rehoboth, NM 2002 2 The picture on the cover is a representation of an s-manifold illustrating some of the behavior of lines in an s-... ...as been peer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Joel Hass, University of California, Davis Marcus Marsh, California State University, Sacr... ...igures 2 and 3). The basic concept of an s-manifold is contained in these paper models made of equilateral triangles taped together edge to edge wit... ...e, six, or seven triangles around any particular vertex. 10 In these paper models, the paper will bend, but will not be stretched. Because of th... ... In this case, ∠2 + ∠4 = 120º, and ∠2 + ∠3 = 180º, so ∠4 = ∠3 – 60º. A similar computation yields the fact that if there is a hyperbolic vertex in ... ...e has an obvious rigid embedding, since it is essentially an icosahedron. Paper models of the s-torus can be made with considerable crumpling, so it... ...developed (see [1]), and its study today is probably most active in the area of computational geometry. There is a lot of information available on t...

...A complete understanding of what something is must include an understanding of what it is not. In his paper, “Paradoxist Mathematics” [19], Florentin Smarandache proposed a number of ways in which we could explore “new math concepts and theories, esp...

...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ...istory shows that the box had competitors—and today they are back. The early models of commercial (as compared to academic) computing assumed that the... ...gram- ming. The PC of the 1980s—the parent of today’s PC—diverged from these models, but the result was by no means a foregone conclusion. Internet us... ...nformation services were built around very different tech- nical and business models. Their designs were much easier to secure against il- legal behavi... ...nitIn.com and automatic essay-grad- ing tools like SAGrader.com, which “uses computational intelligence strategies to grade students [sic] essays in s... ......

...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...ibe an astounding phenomenon whose re- search is now evolving, called “quantum computation.” In addition, I will relate to a witty experiment that was... ...ci- sion, and today this phenomenon assists us in building amazingly accurate computation devices. If we were to fire a single particle, we would be ... ...gy, zoology, anthropology, sociology, and every other sci- ence—designed their models according to the mechanistic percep- tion of the crown science—p... ...In many universities the world over, various sciences have yet to adapt their models to the 19 th century models of physics. The problem is that ph... ...ily discoveries. Kabbalists, however, say that all innovations are merely new models inside our own minds. Once we acquire a true vision of reality, ...

...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden part...

...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the forc...