Engineers have developed a number of design techniques in order to detect problems in their designs, such as yellow-boarding, FMECA, FTA and sneak circuit analysis. Concurrent engineering demands that all such design ...

Combating identity fraud is prominent and urgent since false identity has become the common denominator of all serious crime. Among many identified identity attributes, personal names are commonly falsified or aliased by ...

One of the many successful applications of rough set theory has been to the area of feature selection. The rough set ideology of using only the supplied data and no other information has many benefits, where most other ...

Iterative rule learning is a common strategy for fuzzy rule induction using stochastic population-based algorithms (SPBAs) such as Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) and genetic algorithms. Several SPBAs are run in succession ...

Functional modeling is in use for the interpretation of the results of model based simulation of engineered systems for design analysis, enabling the automatic generation of a textual design analysis report that expresses ...

Bayesian networks are a useful tool in the representation of uncertain knowledge. This paper proposes a new algorithm called ACO-E, to learn the structure of a Bayesian network. It does this by conducting a search through ...

This paper argues that software engineering should not overlook the lessons learned by other engineering disciplines with longer established histories. As software engineering evolves it should focus not only on application ...

Over the past two decades a number of different approaches to “fuzzy probabilities” have been presented. The use of the same term masks fundamental differences. This paper surveys these different theories, contrasting and ...

Cluster ensembles have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to standard cluster analysis, aggregating several input data clusterings to generate a single output clustering, with improved robustness and stability. ...

For supervised learning, feature selection algorithms attemptto maximise a given function of predictive accuracy.This function usually considers the ability of feature vectorsto reflect decision class labels. It is therefore ...