Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering Research Articles

Energy management in cooling system using hybrid optimization clustering technique

Malaysia is situated in Southeast Asia, close to the equator, and as a result of its position, it has hot and humid weather. Because of the impact of the high ambient temperature, more than 50% of the building's energy is used to meet the cooling load demand. Reducing energy consumption in cooling systems without compromising cooling load demand is still an issue to manage. Numerous research studies have been conducted on cooling load demand and its power usage in order to regulate energy consumption and cooling load. These studies have included fuzzy c-mean (FCM) and fuzzy subtractive clustering (FSC) have been involved in cooling systems. As a result, when it comes to deciding how many clusters to use and deploying big data, both FCM and FSC are constrained. This work proposes accelerated particle swarm optimization (APSO) and FSC techniques to achieve this. By adjusting the cluster radius of the FSC-based APSO algorithm. To tune and adjust the cluster radius, a proportional-integral (PI) controller is adopted. The main objective of the APSO is to fine-tune the data clustering parameters. The outcome of the proposed FSC-APSO based PI technique is to identify the input-output dataset for evaluating electricity usage and cooling load demand. The energy usage and load demand in this work are evaluated based on the influence of ambient temperature and relative humidity. The results show that the FSC-APSO technique reduces energy consumption by 10% without compromising comfort-cooling demand. The result is validated using actual data obtained from Latexx Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, Malaysia.

Ferritin Level Prediction in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease using Cluster Centers on Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering

Ferritin Level Prediction in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease using Cluster Centers on Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering

Multimodal dementia identification using lifestyle and brain lesions, a machine learning approach

Dementia diagnosis often relies on expensive and invasive neuroimaging techniques that limit access to early screening. This study proposes an innovative approach for facilitating early dementia screening by estimating diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures using accessible lifestyle and brain imaging factors. Conventional DTI analysis, though effective, is often hindered by high costs and limited accessibility. To address this challenge, fuzzy subtractive clustering identified 14 influential variables from the Lifestyle for Brain Health and Brain Atrophy and Lesion Index frameworks, encompassing demographics, medical conditions, lifestyle factors, and structural brain markers. A multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network was developed using these selected variables to predict fractional anisotropy (FA), a DTI metric reflecting white matter integrity and cognitive function. The MLP model achieved promising results, with a mean squared error of 0.000 878 on the test set for FA prediction, demonstrating its potential for accurate DTI estimation without costly neuroimaging techniques. The FA values in the dataset ranged from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating greater white matter integrity. Thus, a mean squared error of 0.000 878 suggests that the model’s predictions were highly accurate compared to the observed FA values. This multifactorial approach aligns with the current understanding of dementia’s complex etiology influenced by various biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors. By integrating readily available data into a predictive model, this method enables widespread, cost-effective screening for early dementia risk assessment. The proposed accessible screening tool could facilitate timely interventions, preventive strategies, and efficient resource allocation in public health programs, ultimately improving patient outcomes and caregiver burden.

Performance of Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering (FSC) on Medical Data Imputation

Missing values or incomplete data are frequently encountered in medical records. These issues will be a serious problem if the data must be provided completely for analysis. The research aimed to prove the performance of the Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering (FSC) and Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) methods for solving imputation problems. Both methods were implemented using medical data. It had been conducted using K-Means as a crisp clustering approach for imputation. In the research, fuzzy clustering—a distinct methodology—was applied. The primary research contribution was the suggested fuzzy logic imputation method, which took uncertainty under consideration. The data sample consisted of patients who were at least 40 years old and had a history of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, or chronic kidney disease. The test was carried out by taking random portions of data from the entire medical record. The randomization technique used a probability of 10%–50%. The results of the ANOVA test show that the p-value is greater than ∝(=0.05). It means that the imputed value does not differ from the original value, whether implemented in the FSC or FCM method. The algorithm’s performance is evaluated using the Pearson correlation coefficient. According to the t-test results, the FCM method has a higher correlation coefficient than the FSC method. It implies that FCM is superior to FSC.

Effect of Friction Coefficient in Friction Stir Welding of B4C Reinforced AA5083 Metal Matrix Composites and Use of Fuzzy Clustering Technique for Weld Strength Prediction

The friction stir welding (FSW) method was used to weld B4C reinforced AA 5083 metal matrix composites in this study. By coating titanium nitride (TiN), aluminium chromium nitride (AlCrN), and diamond-like carbon (DLC) to a thickness of 4 microns, three FSW tools with square pin profiles were developed and the friction coefficients of 0.69, 0.32, and 0.2 were maintained. At three levels, the process factors such as tool rotating speed, transverse feed, and axial force were examined. For each tool, 15 samples were made using the central composite design. The influence of the friction coefficient on ultimate tensile strength, microstructural features, and tool condition was studied, and the flower pollination algorithm (FPA) technique was used to find the best process parameters for obtaining maximum ultimate tensile strength of FSW joints. The improved tensile strength of FSW joints was verified using a validation test. The coating has a considerable influence on the ultimate tensile strength, microstructure, and tool condition, according to the results of the tool’s friction coefficient. The results on the prediction of strength using the fuzzy clustering technique showed that the technique is effective in predicting the tensile strength values, with the root mean square error (RSME) of TiN, AlCrN, and DLC being 0.0027, 0.0016, and 0.0015, respectively, and the low RSME indicating that the prediction based on the fuzzy subtractive clustering technique is perfect and effective.

A Hybrid Inference Engine to Predict Uncertain Sugar Content for Sugar Industry

The sugar industry is facing challenges in increasing productivity to meet consumer demand. One opportunity for productivity improvement lies in ensuring sugar content. This study proposes a hybrid model to predict sugar content by considering uncertainty factors. A hybrid model combining fuzzy subtractive clustering, and a fuzzy inference system is proposed to predict sugar content. The clustering results using silhouette and fuzzy subtractive clustering successfully identified 6 cluster centres from 2225 datasets collected in a sugar industry in East Java Province. The hybrid inference engine model is designed with fuzzy rules derived from the clustered data. Two inference models are developed: triangular and Gaussian fuzzy numbers. The testing results indicate that the hybrid model with triangular fuzzy numbers shows the smallest error with an R2 value of 0.95. This model is possible to applied in the sugar industry for decision makers in improving productivity with taking attention into uncertain factors influencing sugar content.

New fuzzy subtractive clustering approach: an application of order allocation in e-supply chain system

New fuzzy subtractive clustering approach: an application of order allocation in e-supply chain system

Soft-Computing-Based Estimation of a Static Load for an Overhead Crane.

Payload weight detection plays an important role in condition monitoring and automation of cranes. Crane cells and scales are commonly used in industrial practice; however, when their installation to the hoisting equipment is not possible or costly, an alternative solution is to derive information about the load weight indirectly from other sensors. In this paper, a static payload weight is estimated based on the local strain of a crane's girder and the current position of the trolley. Soft-computing-based techniques are used to derive a nonlinear input-output relationship between the measured signals and the estimated payload mass. Data-driven identification is performed using a novel variant of genetic programming named grammar-guided genetic programming with sparse regression, multi-gene genetic programming, and subtractive fuzzy clustering method combined with the least squares algorithm on experimental data obtained from a laboratory overhead crane. A comparative analysis of the methods showed that multi-gene genetic programming and grammar-guided genetic programming with sparse regression performed similarly in terms of accuracy and both performed better than subtractive fuzzy clustering. The novel approach was able to find a more parsimonious model with its direct implantation having a lower execution time.

Stability of classification performance on an adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system for disease complication prediction

It is crucial to detect disease complications caused by metabolic syndromes early. High cholesterol, high glucose, and high blood pressure are indicators of metabolic syndrome. The aim of this study is to use adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to predict potential complications and compare its performance to other classifiers, namely random forest (RF), C4.5, and naïve Bayesian classification (NBC) algorithms. Fuzzy subtractive clustering is used to construct membership functions and fuzzy rules throughout the clustering process. This study analyzed 148 different data sets. Cholesterol, random glucose, systolic, and diastolic blood pressure are all included in the data collection. This learning process was conducted using a hybrid algorithm. The consequent parameters are adjusted forward using the leastsquare approach, while the premise parameters are adjusted backward using the gradient-descent process. The performance of a system is determined by the following indicators: accuracy, sensitivity, specification, precision, area under the curve (AUC), and root mean squared error (RMSE). The results of the training prove that ANFIS is an "excellent classification" classifier. ANFIS has proven to have very good stability across the six performance parameters. The adaptive properties used in ANFIS training and the implementation of fuzzy subtractive clustering strongly support this stability.

Fuzzy models for quasi‐static calculations of single ground plane coupled CPW by CADMFILT software

AbstractIn this paper, two new subdesign tools including the quasi‐static and fuzzy model calculations for the electrical parameters of the coupled planar transmission lines used in the design of microwave communication subsystems including resonators, filters, and multiplexers are presented for CADMFILT software. Proposed subdesign tools have properties such as electrical parameter calculations for microwave circuit analysis/synthesis, fuzzy logic model applications, comparisons, and graphical demonstrations. The first subdesign tool can calculate the electrical parameters of the coupled planar transmission lines by using the quasi‐static analysis method. The other tool is based on subtractive fuzzy clustering, which can offer approximate solutions as an alternative to numerical and analytical closed‐form expressions of quasi‐static analysis. The proposed subdesign tools have a competent and efficient algorithm to provide fast, accurate, and sensitive results. To test the accuracy of these tools, a coupled coplanar waveguide with a single ground plane structure has been performed. The results obtained from the subdesign tools for both approaches have been compared. The proposed fuzzy logic models use the electrical parameters calculated from the quasi‐static analysis as training and control data files. The accuracy of each model has been tested by error analysis and the validity of the model results has been demonstrated by comparing them with the results of the quasi‐static approach. It is expected that the developed efficient, fast, and versatile subdesign tools will help researchers to simplify their designs by providing a control mechanism in the RF/microwave circuit design processes.

Lithofacies discrimination of the Ordovician unconventional gas-bearing tight sandstone reservoirs using a subtractive fuzzy clustering algorithm applied on the well log data: Illizi Basin, the Algerian Sahara

The main objective of this paper is to prove the capability of the fuzzy clustering algorithm for discriminating between lithofacies that are derived from the borehole log data of Ordovician tight sandstone reservoirs in the Illizi Basin of the Algerian South-Eastern Sahara. The technique is based on applying an unsupervised machine learning fuzzy algorithm on the natural gamma-ray, the photoelectric factor, the sonic log, the neutron porosity, and the bulk density well log data as an input to discriminate lithology into four lithofacies types: clay, sand, clayey sand, and sandy clay. The primary advantage of the fuzzy algorithms is that they can handle uncertainties and errors associated with the inaccurate or incomplete data of any measurements. Furthermore, it has a broader scope and a higher level of generality than the binary logic, which means that the results and interpretations that are based on this approach can be more appropriate and probable than other possible interpretations. A comparison between our algorithm's results and the results from the Kohonen Self-organizing Maps (SOM) and the Multilayer Perceptron (MPL) has also been carried out which proved that our approach provides better results than the other commonly applied neural networks. The obtained lithofacies types are highly comparable with that obtained from the core description data with minimal estimated errors. Therefore, this fuzzy algorithm can be applied as an alternative, fast, and low-cost technique for adequate lithofacies discrimination in case of lacking the core data.

Penerapan Data Mining Dalam Pengelompokan Data Member Card Mitra10 Untuk Meningkatkan Rewards Terhadap Konsumen dengan Metode Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering

Data clustering of Mitra10 member card, it is only based on the payment day by customer. And the total point only based on 0,25% calcutation of each payment. This is not so efficient knowing that there are so many ungrouping data that can be use for increase the rewards to the customer. In order to clustering the data of member card total point, it need a method of data clustering. The method election really affecting the result of data clustering. After all of the member card Mitra10 data transformed to the number form, then the datas can be grouping to fuzzy subtractive clustering algorythm. The data need to divided to some cluster : Select the amount of the cluster. In this research the data will be divided to 3 cluster. Select the center point of each cluster and fisrt center point selected randomly to generate main center point of each cluster. One data will be part of one cluster that has the smallest distance from the center cluster. Example for the first data, smallest distance get by cluster 1, so that the first data will be member of cluster 1. And so for the second data , smallest distance in cluster 3, so it will be member of cluster 3. In this iteration, center point of each cluster does not changed and there is no moving data to another cluster. Cluster 1 result: Has center (1,413, 1,195, 1,695) cluster 1 dominated by the bronze group. Cluster 2 result: Has center (2,658, 1,219, 1,585) cluster 2 dominated by the silver group. Cluster 3 result: Has center (4, 1,8, 3) cluster 3 dominated by the silver group

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DISTANCE MEASURES ON FUZZY SUBTRACTIVE CLUSTERING

Clustering is a data analysis process which applied to classify the unlabeled data. Fuzzy clustering is a clustering method based on membership value which enclosing set of fuzzy as a measurement base for classification process. Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering (FSC) is included in one of fuzzy clustering method. This research applies Hamming distance and combined Minkowski Chebysev distance as a distance parameter in Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering. The objective of this research is to compare the output quality of the cluster from Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering by using Hamming distance and combine Minkowski Chebysev distance. The comparison of the two distances aims to see how well the clusters are produced from two different distances. The data used is data on hypertension. The variables used are age, gender, systolic pressure, diastolic pressure, and body weight. This research shows that the Partition Coefficient value resulted on Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering by applying combined Minkowski Chebysev distance is higher than the application of Hamming distance. Based on this, it can be concluded that in this study the quality of the cluster output using the combined Minkowski Chebysev distance is better.

Hybrid Metaheuristics Web Service Composition Model for QoS Aware Services

Recent advancements in cloud computing (CC) technologies signified that several distinct web services are presently developed and exist at the cloud data centre. Currently, web service composition gains maximum attention among researchers due to its significance in real-time applications. Quality of Service (QoS) aware service composition concerned regarding the election of candidate services with the maximization of the whole QoS. But these models have failed to handle the uncertainties of QoS. The resulting QoS of composite service identified by the clients become unstable and subject to risks of failing composition by end-users. On the other hand, trip planning is an essential technique in supporting digital map services. It aims to determine a set of location based services (LBS) which cover all client intended activities quantified in the query. But the available web service composition solutions do not consider the complicated spatio-temporal features. For resolving this issue, this study develops a new hybridization of the firefly optimization algorithm with fuzzy logic based web service composition model (F3L-WSCM) in a cloud environment for location awareness. The presented F3L-WSCM model involves a discovery module which enables the client to provide a query related to trip planning such as flight booking, hotels, car rentals, etc. At the next stage, the firefly algorithm is applied to generate composition plans to minimize the number of composition plans. Followed by, the fuzzy subtractive clustering (FSC) will select the best composition plan from the available composite plans. Besides, the presented F3L-WSCM model involves four input QoS parameters namely service cost, service availability, service response time, and user rating. An extensive experimental analysis takes place on CloudSim tool and exhibit the superior performance of the presented F3L-WSCM model in terms of accuracy, execution time, and efficiency.

Artificial intelligence analysis of FTIR and CD spectroscopic data for predicting and quantifying the length and content of protein secondary structures

Besides NMR and X-ray crystallography, FTIR and CD spectroscopy are widely considered to be useful for determining protein secondary structure. These techniques can be used to obtain data in few minutes, using small quantities of proteins, which make them amenable for proteomics research. Here we explore the possibility of using artificial intelligence techniques to simultaneously analyse both FTIR and CD spectroscopic data for an identical set of proteins. Neural network analysis was carried out on normalised regions of FTIR (1700-1600 cm−1) and CD (180-259 nm) spectral data both with and without boxcar averaging in order to quantify the average length and percentages of secondary structures. A hybrid genetic algorithm/neural network approach, that automatically selects structure-sensitive wavelength/frequency, was used for the quantification of the protein secondary structure. Using this algorithm we also successfully identified the region of the CD spectrum that contains the most structure-sensitive information. This was located between 214-251 nm, suggesting that this region alone may be sufficient to rapidly determine the secondary structure content from CD spectral data. Overall, CD spectroscopic analysis produced better results compared to FTIR spectroscopy when selected wavelengths were used, although FTIR was better when the entire region between 1700-1600 cm−1 (FTIR), and 180-259 nm (CD), was subjected to neural network analysis. Application of Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) with fuzzy subtractive clustering for the analysis of the spectral data led to a slightly better prediction of the average helix/sheet length for FTIR spectroscopy compared to CD. Our findings reveal the potential of using artificial intelligence techniques for not only extracting structural information but also for better understanding of the relationship between complex spectral data and biologically important information.

Machine Learning Based Approach to a Crane Load Estimation

Abstract In the presence of increasing demands for safety and efficiency of material handling systems, the development of advanced supervisory control, monitoring, data acquisition and diagnostic systems is involved, especially for large industrial cranes. The important part of such systems is the continuous monitoring of a crane load. The crane load monitoring system proposed in the paper is based on a fuzzy model that estimates a payload mass transferred by a crane based on measuring the crane girder deflection and trolley position. The model was identified using the fuzzy subtractive clustering and least mean square with the data collected during experiments carried out on the laboratory scaled overhead crane.

Metode Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering Dalam Pengelompokkan Penggunaan Energi Listrik Rumah Tangga

The use of electricity in household sector has increased, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The large number of activities carried out in home such as Work from Home, online schools, and online businesses caused difficulty to monitor the electricity consumption. The absence of electricity usage provisions affects the electricity monitoring process. Hence it takes a real time monitoring application of electricity consumption. Fuzzy subtractive clustering is an unsupervised method to form the number and center of clusters according to data conditions. This method serves to classify the household electricity users with the parameters used, is the amount of usage in rupiah and electric power. The grouping results from this method help users to monitoring electricity consumption in real time. The output describes the level of high, medium and low user electricity consumption. Based on the test results, the best Silhouette Coefficient value is 0.8322535 and three clusters are formed, with an accept ratio is 0.5, a reject ratio of 0.15, a radius of 1.7 and a squash factor of 0.5 hence a high level of use is obtained with an average value of the number of uses in IDR 655,993, power 2757 VA, medium level 240,553, 1071 VA and low level 46,479, 675 VA

COMPARISON OF FUZZY SUBTRACTIVE CLUSTERING AND FUZZYC-MEANS

Multivariate statistics have related problems with large data dimensions. One method that can be used is principal component analysis (PCA). Principal component analysis (PCA) is a technique used to reduce data dimensions consisting of several dependent variables while maintaining variance in the data. PCA can be used to stabilize measurements in statistical analysis, one of which is cluster analysis. Fuzzy clustering is a method of grouping based on membership values ​​that includes fuzzy sets as a weighting basis for grouping. In this study, the fuzzy clustering method used is Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering (FSC) and Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) with a combination of the Minkowski Chebysev distance. The purpose of this study was to compare the cluster results obtained from the FSC and FCM using the DBI validity index. The results obtained indicate that the results of clustering using FCM are better than the FSC.

Analisis Kinerja Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) dan Fuzzy Subtractive (FS) dalam Clustering Data Alumni STMIK STIKOM Indonesia

In this study, clustering data on STMIK STIKOM Indonesia alumni using the Fuzzy C-Means and Fuzzy Subtractive methods. The method used to test the validity of the cluster is the Modified Partition Coefficient (MPC) and Classification Entropy (CE) index. Clustering is carried out with the aim of finding hidden patterns or information from a fairly large data set, considering that so far the alumni data at STMIK STIKOM Indonesia have not undergone a data mining process. The results of measuring cluster validity using the Modified Partition Coefficient (MPC) and Classification Entropy (CE) index, the Fuzzy C-Means Clustering algorithm has a higher level of validity than the Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering algorithm so it can be said that the Fuzzy C-Means algorithm performs the cluster process better than with the Fuzzy Subtractive method in clustering alumni data. The number of clusters that have the best fitness value / the most optimal number of clusters based on the CE and MPC validity index is 5 clusters. The cluster that has the best characteristics is the 1st cluster which has 514 members (36.82% of the total alumni). With the characteristics of having an average GPA of 3.3617, the average study period is 7.8102 semesters and an average TA work period of 4.9596 months.

Clustering with Principal Component Analysis and Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering Using Membership Function Exponential and Hamming Distance

The problem of dimension reduction in multivariate data is how to obtain a smaller number of variables but still be able to maintain most of the information contained in the data. One method that can be used is principal component analysis (PCA). Principal component analysis (PCA) is a technique used to reduce the dimensions of data consisting of several dependent variables while maintaining the variance in the data. PCA can be used to stabilize measurements in statistical analysis, one of which is cluster analysis. Fuzzy clustering is a method of grouping based on membership values that include fuzzy sets as a basis for weighting for grouping. One method of fuzzy clustering is Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering (FSC). The method used in this study is PCA and FSC. The purpose of this study is to compare the most optimal cluster results using PCAFSC and FSC methods. The results obtained indicate that the clustering using the PCAFSC method is better than the FSC method.