scholarly journals Parking Demand vs Supply: An Optimization-Based Approach at a University Campus

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Navid Nadimi ◽  
Sanaz Afsharipoor ◽  
Amir Mohammadian Amiri
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Parking Lots ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
Parking Demand

Parking management has always been a major concern for universities and other activity centers. Nowadays, many universities are suffering from a lack of campus parking capacity. To tackle this problem, it is necessary to take parking lots assignment into consideration, regarding intercampus users’ needs. These users have different ages, physical characteristics, expectations, and administrative positions that should be considered before any parking assignment. Here, a new method is proposed to optimize parking lots management for those universities where staff (academic and administrative), in contrast to students, are allowed to park inside the campus area. For this purpose, first, the probability of using a specific parking lot by each group is determined. For staff, this is done based on their choices, revealed by the relative frequency of using parking lots. This probability for students can be calculated using a fuzzy inference system model. To develop the model, a survey is conducted to extract students’ preferences, regarding parking spaces assignment inside the campus area. Afterward, an integer linear programming model with the objective function of maximizing parking probability is employed, considering several related constraints. The proposed model is applied to Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman (SBUK), Iran, as the case study. According to the results, it can be concluded that the proposed method can help to reduce wandering time of finding an appropriate parking space for both staff and students. In addition, the proposed application can help increase the satisfaction level of staff and students with regard to parking management.

Determining the safety culture in a gun factory in Turkey: A fuzzy approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Gökçen A. Çiftçioğlu ◽  
Mehmet A. N. Kadırgan ◽  
Ahmet Eşiyok
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Fuzzy Model ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Initial Questionnaire ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Assessment Questionnaire

Safety culture is a very complex phenomenon due to its intangible nature. It is tough to measure and express it with numerical values, as there is no simple indicator to measure it. This paper presents a fuzzy inference system that measures the safety culture. First of all, a safety culture assessment questionnaire is developed by utilizing related literature. The initial questionnaire had 29 items. The questionnaire is applied to 259 employees within the gun manufacturing factory. After making an exploratory factor analysis, the questionnaire is based on five factors with 25 items. The safety culture indicators are defined as; safety follow-up audit reporting, employees’ self-awareness, operational safety commitment, management’s safety commitment, safety orientedness. Normality, reliability, and correlation analysis are performed. Then a fuzzy model is constructed with five inputs and one output. The inputs are the five factors mentioned above, and the output generated is the safety culture result, which is between 0-1. The presented fuzzy model produces reliable results indicating the safety culture level from the employees’ eyes. Beyond exploring the employees’ safety culture, the proposed model can easily be understood by the practitioners from various sectors. Furthermore, the model is straightforward to customize for various fields of industry.

scholarly journals PROPOSING A NEW METHODOLOGY BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC FOR TUNNELLING RISK ASSESSMENT

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdolreza Yazdani-Chamzini
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Construction Operations ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Mine Development ◽  
Civil Defence

Tunnels are artificial underground spaces that provide a capacity for particular goals such as storage, under-ground transportation, mine development, power and water treatment plants, civil defence. This shows that the tunnel construction is a key activity in developing infrastructure projects. In many situations, tunnelling projects find themselves involved in the situations where unexpected conditions threaten the continuity of the project. Such situations can arise from the prior knowledge limited by the underground unknown conditions. Therefore, a risk analysis that can take into account the uncertainties associated with the underground projects is needed to assess the existing risks and prioritize them for further protective measures and decisions in order to reduce, mitigate and/or even eliminate the risks involved in the project. For this reason, this paper proposes a risk assessment model based on the concepts of fuzzy set theory to evaluate risk events during the tunnel construction operations. To show the effectiveness of the proposed model, the results of the model are compared with those of the conventional risk assessment. The results demonstrate that the fuzzy inference system has a great potential to accurately model such problems.

scholarly journals Energy Trading with Electric Vehicles in Smart Campus Parking Lots

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ahmed ◽  
Young-Chon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Market Mechanism ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Energy Trading ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Parking Lots ◽  
Electric Vehicle Charging ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Demand Information ◽  
Knapsack Algorithm

Energy trading with electric vehicles provides opportunities to eliminate the high peak demand for electric vehicle charging while providing cost saving and profits for all participants. This work aims to design a framework for local energy trading with electric vehicles in smart parking lots where electric vehicles are able to exchange energy through buying and selling prices. The proposed architecture consists of four layers: the parking energy layer, data acquisition layer, communication network layer, and market layer. Electric vehicles are classified into three different types: seller electric vehicles (SEVs) with an excess of energy in the battery, buyer electric vehicles (BEVs) with lack of energy in the battery, and idle electric vehicles (IEVs). The parking lot control center (PLCC) plays a major role in collecting all available offer/demand information among parked electric vehicles. We propose a market mechanism based on the Knapsack Algorithm (KPA) to maximize the PLCC profit. Two cases are considered: electric vehicles as energy sellers and the PLCC as an energy buyer, and electric vehicles as energy buyers and the PLCC as an energy seller. A realistic parking pattern of a parking lot on a university campus is considered as a case study. Different scenarios are investigated with respect to the number of electric vehicles and amount of energy trading. The proposed market mechanism outperforms the conventional scheme in view of costs and profits.

Interval type-2 fuzzy inference-based failure mode and effect analysis model in a group decision-making setting

Kybernetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
İlker Gölcük
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Interval Type

PurposeThis paper proposes an integrated IT2F-FMEA model under a group decision-making setting. In risk assessment models, experts' evaluations are often aggregated beforehand, and necessary computations are performed, which in turn, may cause a loss of information and valuable individual opinions. The proposed integrated IT2F-FMEA model aims to calculate risk priority numbers from the experts' evaluations and then fuse experts' judgments using a novel integrated model.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a novel failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) model by integrating the fuzzy inference system, best-worst method (BWM) and weighted aggregated sum-product assessment (WASPAS) methods under interval type-2 fuzzy (IT2F) environment. The proposed FMEA approach utilizes the Mamdani-type IT2F inference system to calculate risk priority numbers. The individual FMEA results are combined by using integrated IT2F-BWM and IT2F-WASPAS methods.FindingsThe proposed model is implemented in a real-life case study in the furniture industry. According to the case study, fifteen failure modes are considered, and the proposed integrated method is used to prioritize the failure modes.Originality/valueMamdani-type singleton IT2F inference model is employed in the FMEA. Additionally, the proposed model allows experts to construct their membership functions and fuzzy rules to capitalize on the experience and knowledge of the experts. The proposed group FMEA model aggregates experts' judgments by using IT2F-BWM and IT2F-WASPAS methods. The proposed model is implemented in a real-life case study in the furniture company.

scholarly journals Evaluation of treated municipal wastewater effluent for agricultural irrigation purposes using the fuzzy effluent quality index (FEQI)

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-156
Author(s):  
Seyed Hesam Alihosseini ◽  
Ali Torabian ◽  
Farzam Babaei Semiromi
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Inference System ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Wastewater Effluent ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Effluent Quality ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Treated Municipal Wastewater

Abstract The issues of freshwater scarcity in arid and semi-arid areas could be reduced via treated municipal wastewater effluent (TMWE). Artificial intelligence methods, especially the fuzzy inference system, have proven their ability in TMWE quality evaluation in complex and uncertain systems. The primary aim of this study was to use a Mamdani fuzzy inference system to present an index for agricultural application based on the Iranian water quality index (IWQI). Since the uncertainties were disregarded in the conventional IWQI, the present study improved this procedure by using fuzzy logic and then the fuzzy effluent quality index (FEQI) was proposed as a hybrid fuzzy-based index. TMWE samples of the Gheitarie wastewater treatment plant in Tehran city recorded from 2011 to 2017 were taken into consideration for testing the ability of the proposed index. The results of the FEQI showed samples categorized as ‘Excellent’ (21), ‘Good’ (10), ‘Fair’ (4), and ‘Marginal’ (1) for the warm seasons, and for the cool seasons, the samples categorized as ‘Excellent’, ‘Good’ and ‘Fair’ were 17, 18 and 1, respectively. Generally, a comparison between the IWQI and proposed model results revealed the FEQI's superiority in TMWE quality assessment.

Equipment Support Training Level Evaluation Method based on ANFIS

2013 ◽  
Vol 706-708 ◽  
pp. 1950-1953
Author(s):  
Wu Kui Zhao ◽  
Cheng Zhang ◽  
Yi Bo Wang
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Training Level ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Training Efficiency

The evaluation of equipment support training is an effective way to improve training efficiency. The main influencing factors of equipment support training are analyzed. Adaptive neural fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model structure is established and the hybrid-learning algorithm to solve the established model by applying back-propagation and least mean squares procedure is investigated. Then the evaluation model of equipment support training level based on ANFIS is constructed. The training level consistent with the actual training level is achieved by training the proposed model using training data samples, which verifies the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed method. Simulation comparing analysis using the proposed method and BP neutral network is conducted respectively. The superiority of the proposed method is verified by simulation results, which provides an effective method for equipment support training evaluation.

scholarly journals On the Prediction of Biogas Production from Vegetables, Fruits, and Food Wastes by ANFIS- and LSSVM-Based Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Yong Yang ◽  
Shuaishuai Zheng ◽  
Zhilu Ai ◽  
Mohammad Mahdi Molla Jafari
Keyword(s):  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Biogas Production ◽  
Input Parameter ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Robust Algorithms ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Proposed Model

This study is aimed at modeling biodigestion systems as a function of the most influencing parameters to generate two robust algorithms on the basis of the machine learning algorithms, including adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and least square support vector machine (LSSVM). The models are assessed utilizing multiple statistical analyses for the actual values and model outcomes. Results from the suggested models indicate their great capability of predicting biogas production from vegetable food, fruits, and wastes for a variety of ranges of input parameters. The values that are calculated for the mean relative error (MRE %) and mean squared error (MSE) were 29.318 and 0.0039 for ANFIS, and 2.951 and 0.0001 for LSSVM which shows that the latter model has a better ability to predict the target data. Finally, in order to have additional certainty, two analyses of outlier identification and sensitivity were performed on the input parameter data that proved the proposed model in this paper has higher reliability in assessing output values compared with the previous model.

scholarly journals Design And Development Of Smart Parking Management System

10.31645/07 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Saad Azhar ◽  
◽  
Arshad Arshad ◽  
Abdul Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Parking Lots ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Greenhouse Emissions ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
Smart Parking ◽  
Increasing Demand

The parking systems in the modern age are under tremendous stress as the number of vehicles on the roads are increasing every year. Due to this increase, the current parking lots do not suffice which leads to people driving for parking spaces thus wasting valuable time and adding to the greenhouse emissions. Therefore, new efficient and innovative solutions need to be developed which meets the ever- increasing demand for parking spaces and be as environmentally friendly as possible. The solution devised in this project is an enhancement of the current parking system with an integrated mobile application which allow drivers to remotely monitor parking lots, make reservation for a spot prior to visiting the parking lot and make in app payments for the parking services. This reduces the time spent in looking for parking spots as well as reduces the unnecessary carbon emissions while offering a practical and seamless parking experience to the users.

scholarly journals Estimate reliability of component-based software sys-tem using modified neuro fuzzy model

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Kumar Sharma ◽  
Dr. Parul Gandhi
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Inference System ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Fuzzy Model ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Component Reliability ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Neuro Fuzzy ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Estimate Reliability

There are many algorithms and techniques for estimating the reliability of Component Based Software Systems (CBSSs). Accurate esti-mation depends on two factors: component reliability and glue code reliability. Still much more research is expected to estimate reliability in a better way. A number of soft computing approaches for estimating CBSS reliability has been proposed. These techniques learnt from the past and capture existing patterns in data. In this paper, we proposed new model for estimating CBSS reliability known as Modified Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (MNFIS). This model is based on four factors Reusability, Operational, Component dependency, Fault Density. We analyze the proposed model for diffent data sets and also compare its performance with that of plain Fuzzy Inference System. Our experimental results show that, the proposed model gives better reliability as compare to FIS.

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