The increasing tendency of network service users to use cloud computing encourages web
service vendors to supply services that have different functional and nonfunctional (quality of …

Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) merge different types of networks into an integrated
network system, which has become a hot research area in recent years towards next …

A classical measure is essentially a set function satisfying nonnegativity and countable
additivity axioms. However, the additivity axiom of classical measure theory has been …

Some information and knowledge are usually represented by human language like “about
100km”,“approximately 39° C”,“roughly 80kg”,“low speed”,“middle age”, and “big size”. How …

Ecological civilization construction (ECC) has become an essential strategy for achieving
sustainable development and resolving China's severe resource and environmental issues …

This book develops a framework that shows how uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
expands and generalizes traditional AI. It explores the uncertainties of knowledge and …

Optimal reactive power dispatch problem in power systems has thrown a growing influence
on secure and economical operation of power systems. However, this issue is well known as …

The cloud model, which can synthetically describe the randomness and fuzziness of
qualitative concepts and implement uncertain transformations between a qualitative concept …

Coal-to-methanol enterprises in China face many risk factors that pose a serious threat to
the safety of the company's production. Therefore, it is imperative to conduct risk …

Since the error surface of digital infinite-impulse-response (IIR) filters is generally nonlinear
and multimodal, global optimization techniques are required in order to avoid local minima …