Da Ruan

Publication List Details

Period

1992 - 2009

Number

137

Co-Authors

Lessons Learned from Computational Intelligence in Nuclear Applications (2009)

Da Ruan

Computational intelligence (CI) is the study of the design of intelligent agents. The difference between traditional artificial intelligence (AI) and CI is that AI is based on conventional hard...

Computational Intelligence Approaches for Parametric Estimation and Feature Extraction of Power Spectral Density (2009)

Da Ruan, Davide Roverso, Paolo F. Fantoni

druanpsckcen-be This paper reports an early progress of a feasibility study of a computational intelligence approach to the enhancement of the accuracy of flow measurements in the framework of a...

Integrating rough sets with neural networks for weighting road safety performance indicators (2009)

Li, Tianrui, Shen, Youngjun, Ruan, Da, Hermans, Elke, Wets, Geert

This paper aims at improving two main uncertain factors in neural networks training in developing a composite road safety performance indicator. These factors are the initial value of network weights...

Belief rule-based inference methodology to improve nuclear safeguards information evaluation (2009)

Ruan, Da, Carchon, Roland, Van Der Meer, Klaas, Liu, Jun, Wang, Hui, Martinez, Luis

A framework for modeling, analyzing and synthesizing nuclear safeguards information with various uncertainties is proposed by using a newly developed belief rule-base inference methodology (RIMER)....

A multi-criteria aggregation approach to software development risk management (2008)

Buyukozkan, Gulcin, Ruan, Da

Software becomes a major part of today's enterprise business. Better managing risks on software development projects is vital to produce successful software systems. This study proposes a...

Evaluation of road safety performance indicators using OWA operators (2008)

Hermans, Elke, Ruan, Da, Brijs, Tom, Wets, Geert, Vanhoof, Koen

Road safety performance indicators have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on their performance of road safety risk factors. New insights can be gained in case one...

FLINS-related activities in Russia Gert de Cooman 1 (2008)

Da Ruan, Alexander P. Ryjov

Abstract: For FLINS’94, the first international workshop on fuzzy logic and intelligent technologies in

Fuzzy risks and an updating algorithm with new observations (2008)

Huang, Chongfu, Ruan, Da

Concerning the essence of risk, we suggest a new definition of risk: a scene in the future associated with some adverse incident. In many cases, risks are rather fuzzy for our perception because of...

Intelligent Decision and Policy Making Support Systems (2008)

Ruan, Da, Hardeman, Frank, Van Der Meer, Klaas

This book covers a number of representative applications of intelligent decision support systems applications in society and policy support, including general methodologies, case studies, on-going...

On the first place antitonicity in QL-implications (2008)

Shi, Yun, Van Gasse, Bart, Ruan, Da, Kerre, Etienne

To obtain a demanded fuzzy implication in fuzzy systems, a number of desired properties have been proposed, among which the first place antitonicity, the second place isotonicity and the boundary...

Fuzzy set Decision Support for a Belgian Long-Term Sustainable Energy Strategy (2008)

Laes, Erik, Meskens, Gaston, Ruan, Da, Lu, Jie, Zhang, Guangquan, Wu, Fengjie, ...

This edited book is a collection of a number of representative applications of intelligent decision support systems in society and policy support, uncluding general methodologies, case studies,...

Intelligent sensory evaluation: Concepts, implementations,and applications (2008)

Zeng, Xianyi, Ruan, Da, Koehl, Ludovic

Sensory evaluation has been widely applied in different industrial fields especially for quality inspection, product design and marketing. Classically, factorial multivariate methods are the only...

Evaluation of software development projects using a fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach (2008)

Buyukozkan, Gulcin, Ruan, Da

To deal with the uncertainty and vagueness from humans’ subjective perception and experience in decision process, this paper presents an evaluation model based on the fuzzy multi-criteria...

Intelligent Sensory Evaluation: Concepts, Implementations, and Applications (2008)

Zeng, Xianyi, Ruan, Da, Koehl, Ludovic

This special issue is the result of the 2nd international workshop on Sensory Evaluation and Intellligent Techniques (July 11-13, 2005, Paris) under the 17th IMACS (International Association for...

A new decision tree construction using the cloud transform and rough sets (2008)

Song, Jing, Li, Tianrui, Ruan, Da

Many present methods for dealing with the continuous data and missing values in information systems for constructing decision tree do not perform well in practical applications. In this paper, a new...

SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION ANALYSIS OF THE INDICATOR INFORMATION IN NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS APPLICATIONS BY COMPUTING WITH WORDS (2008)

Jun Liu, Da Ruan, Roland Carchon

This paper aims at the handling and treatment of nuclear safeguard relevant information by using a linguistic assessment approach. This is based on a hierarchical analysis of a State’s nuclear...

Self-tuning of fuzzy belief rule bases for engineering system safety analysis (2008)

Liu, Jun, Yang, Jian-Bo, Ruan, Da, Martinez, Luis, Wang, Jin

A framework for modelling the safety of an engineering system using a fuzzy rule-based evidential reasoning (FURBER) approach has been recently proposed, where a fuzzy rule-base designed on the basis...

Evaluation of road safety performance indicators using OWA operators (2008)

HERMANS, Elke, RUAN, Da, BRIJS, Tom, WETS, Geert, VANHOOF, Koen

Road safety performance indicators have recently been proposed as a useful instrument in comparing countries on their performance of road safety risk factors. New insights can be gained in case one...

On the first place antitonicity in QL-implications (2008)

Shi, Yun, Van Gasse, Bart, Ruan, Da, Kerre, Etienne

To obtain a demanded fuzzy implication in fuzzy systems, a number of desired properties have been proposed, among which the first place antitonicity, the second place isotonicity and the boundary...

A linguistic lattice-valued approach for fuzzy multi-objective decision making (2007)

Li, Xiaobing, Ruan, Da, Liu, Jun, Xu, Yang

Most of the present methods for multi-objective decision making can only deal with linearly ordered preference information. In this paper, we focus on investigating methods for multi-objective...

FLINS-related activities in Russia (2007)

Gert De Cooman, Da Ruan, Alexander P. Ryjov

: For FLINS'94, the first international workshop on fuzzy logic and intelligent technologies in nuclear science, held in September 1994 in Mol, Belgium, a total of 35 percent of all accepted...

Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Support in Teaching Performance (2007)

Lu, Jie, Li, Zhong, Ruan, Da

Teaching performance evaluation and many preference decisions are often made in groups, and always require considering multiple criteria under a hierarchy structure. T the same time, the evaluation...

On the characterizations of fuzzy implications satisfying I(x,y) = I(x, I(x,y)) (2007)

Shi, Yun, Ruan, Da, Kerre, Etienne

Iterative boolean-like laws in fuzzy logic have been studied for functional equations with boolean background in which only fuzzy conjunctions, fuzzy disjunctions and fuzzy negations are contained....

The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre and the possibilities for cooperation with China (2007)

Van Walle, Eric, Ruan, Da

This paper gives a short overview of the activities of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) and the role it can play in the cooperative agreement that was established between the China...

The Development of A Fuzzy Multi-Objective Group Decision Support System (2007)

Wu, Fengjie, Lu, Jie, Zhang, Guangquan, Ruan, Da

This paper deals with multi-objective decisionmaking problem with fuzzy parameters under a group environment, called fuzzy multi-objective group decisionmaking (FMOGDM). It first presents an FMOGDM...

A rough sets based characteristic relation approach for dynamic attribute generalization in data mining (2007)

Li, Tianrui, Ruan, Da, Wets, Geert, Song, Jing, Xu, Yang

Any attribute set in an information system may be evolving in time when new information arrives. Approximations of a concept by rough set theory need updating for data mining or other related tasks....

Fuzzy Multi-criteria Group Decision Support in Long-term Options of Belgian Energy Policy (2007)

Ruan, Da, Lu, Jie, Laes, Erik, Zhang, Guangquan, Wu, Fengjie, Hardeman, Frank

Decision making requires multiple perspectives of different people as one single decision maker may have not enough knowledge to well solve a problem alone. This is particularly true when the...

A rough sets based characteristic relation approach for dynamic attribute generalization in data mining (2007)

Li, Tianrui, Ruan, Da, Wets, Geert, Song, Jing, Xu, Yang

Any attribute set in an information system may be evolving in time when new information arrives. Approximations of a concept by rough set theory need updating for data mining or other related tasks....

Intelligent knowledge engineering systems (2007)

Lu, Jie, Ruan, Da

Intelligent systems including fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary omputation, data mining and optimisation etc. are complementary to each other and allow solutions of new problems on the way...

Why Fuzzy Logic? – A Spectrum of Theoretical and Pragmatics Issues (2007)

Wang, Paul, Ruan, Da, Kerre, Etienne

This chapter briefly summarizes the contents of the whole book. The research survey presents a snap shot of the state-of-the-art of the active on-going research of the current maturity of fuzzy...

Nuclear Reactor Power Control Using State Feedback with Fuzzy Logic (2007)

Benitez, Jorge, Pérez, Humberto, Ruan, Da

A novel control scheme for power regulation in a research nuclear reactor has been developed. The scheme combines different techniques such as state variable feedback, first order numerical...

Fuzzy Logic – A Spectrum of Theoretical & Practical Issues (2007)

Wang, Paul, Ruan, Da, Kerre, Etienne

This book exclusively surveys the active on-going research of the current maturity of fuzzy logic over the last four decades. Many world leaders of fuzzy logic have enthusiastically contributed their...

Fuzzy group decision-making to multiple preference formats in quality function deployment (2007)

Buyukozkan, Gulcin, Feyzioglu, Orhan, Ruan, Da

In a competitive and global business environment, it is certainly a distinct advantage to capture the genuine and major customer’s requirements effectively. To take advantage of this, the unique...

Evaluating government websites based on a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making approach (2007)

Buyukozkan, Gulcin, Ruan, Da

This paper presents a framework of website quality evaluation for measuring the performance of government websites. Multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) is a widely used tool for evaluating and...

An extended Branch and Bound algorithm for bilevel multi-follower decision making in a referential-uncooperative situation (2007)

Lu, Jie, Shi, Chenggen, Zhang, Guangquan, Ruan, Da

Within the framework of any bilevel decision problem, a leader’s decision at the upper level is influenced by the reaction of their follower at the lower level. When multiple followers are involved...

Multi-Objective Group Decision Making: Methods, Software and Applications with Fuzzy Set Techniques (2007)

Lu, Jie, Zhang, Guangquan, Ruan, Da, Wu, Fengjie

This book proposes a set of models to describe fuzzy multi-objective decision making, fuzzy group decision making and fuzzy multi-objective group decision-making problems, respectively. It also gives...

Evaluating e-learning web site quality in a fuzzy environment (2007)

Buyukozkan, Gulcin, Ruan, Da, Feyzioglu, Orhan

The proliferation of the Internet and World Wide Web applications have created new opportunities as well as new challenges for institutions and individuals who are either receiving or delivering...

Handling Linguistic web Information Based on A Multi-agent System (2007)

Pei, Zheng, Ruan, Da, Xu, Yang, Liu, Jun

Much information over the Internet is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information involves an operation of comparison and aggregation. Based on the Ordered Weighted...

E-Service Intelligence (2007)

Lu, Jie, Ruan, Da, Zhang, Guangquan, Zimmermann, Hans

This special issue aims to offer a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the new field e-service intelligence. It covers the state-of-the-art of the research and development in various...

Dealing with heterogeneous information in engineering evaluation processes (2007)

Martinez, Luis, Liu, Jun, Ruan, Da, Yang, Jian-Bo

Before selecting a design for a large engineering system several design proposals are evaluated studying different key aspects. In such a design assessment process, different criteria need to be...

Computational Textile (2007)

Zeng, Xianyi, Li, Yi, Ruan, Da, Koehl, Ludovic

Since 1950’s, computational techniques have been widely applied in tex-tile industry and garment industry for process and materials’ structure modeling, simulation and control, optimization of...

A credit evaluation in e-business through game theory (2007)

Liu, Xiaohong, Ruan, Da, Li, Tianrui

The security of both technical and trade credit factors becomes a serious bottleneck that affects the current development of e-business. Honest behavior is one of the important aspects of trade...

An α-fuzzy goal approximate algorithm for solving fuzzy multiple objective linear programming problems (2007)

Lu, Jie, Ruan, Da, Wu, Fengjie, Zhang, Guangquan

Multiple conflicting objectives in many decision making problems can be well described by multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) models. This paper deals with the vague and imprecise...

An extended process model of knowledge discovery in database (2007)

Li, Tianrui, Ruan, Da

Much research on knowledge discovery in database (KDD) merely pays attention to data mining, one of many interacting steps in the process of discovering previously unknown and potentially interesting...

A fuzzy-set approach to treat determinacy and consistency of linguistic terms in multi-criteria decision making (2007)

Ma, Jun, Ruan, Da, Xu, Yang, Zhang, Guangquan

A fuzzy-set-based approach is presented to describe linguistic information in multi-criteria decision making. After having introduced concepts of determinacy and consistency of linguistic terms, the...

Filter-based resolution principle for lattice-valued propositional logic LP(X) (2007)

Ma, Jun, Li, Wenjiang, Ruan, Da, Xu, Yang

As one of most powerful approaches in automated reasoning, resolution principle has been introduced to non-classical logics, such as many-valued logic. However, most of the existing works are limited...

Communication mechanisms in ecological network-based grid middleware for service emergence (2007)

Ding, Yongsheng, Gao, Lei, Ruan, Da

Next generation grid systems are heading for globally collaborative, service-oriented and live information systems that exhibit a strong sense of automation. A collection of autonomous agents is...

Uncertainty analysis via aggregation operators for cost estimation in a large-scale nuclear project (2007)

Ruan, Da, Li, Tianrui

Cost estimation for large projects can be difficult because of many complex factors and uncertainties involved. It is often the case that only very rough guesses of actual costs may be provided. In...

User interface for intelligent control schemes in a TRIGA Mark III reactor (2007)

Benitez, Jorge, Rivero, Tonatiuh, Ruan, Da, Ramirez, César, Lopez, Régulo, Pacheco, Joel

This paper describes the development of a user interface aimed mainly at testing new power control algorithms in a TRIGA Mark III reactor. The interface is fully compatible with the current computing...

A rough sets based characteristic relation approach for dynamic attribute generalization in data mining (2007)

Li, Tianrui, WETS, Geert, Song, Jing, Xu, Yang, RUAN, Da

Any attribute set in an information system may be evolving in time when new information arrives. Approximations of a concept by rough set theory need updating for data mining or other related tasks....

A rough sets based characteristic relation approach for dynamic attribute generalization in data mining (2007)

Li, Tianrui, RUAN, Da, WETS, Geert, Song, Jing, Xu, Yang

Any attribute set in an information system may be evolving in time when new information arrives. Approximations of a concept by rough set theory need updating for data mining or other related tasks....

A multi-attribute comparison of Turkish quality consultants by fuzzy AHP (2007)

Cebeci, Ufuk, Ruan, Da

Quality consultants are used in ISO 9000 implementation projects especially by many small and medium-sized enterprises. Clients do not always appreciate differences between quality consultants. This...

An extended branch and bound algorithm for bilevel multi-follower decision making in a referential-uncooperative situation (2007)

Lu, Jie, Shi, Chenggen, Zhang, Guangquan, Ruan, Da

Within the framework of any bilevel decision problem, a leader's decision at the upper level is influenced by the reaction of their follower at the lower level. When multiple followers are involved...

Evaluating government websites based on a fuzzy multiple criteria decision-making approach (2007)

Bueyuekoezkan, Guelcin, Ruan, Da

This paper presents a framework of website quality evaluation for measuring the performance of government websites. Multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) is a widely used tool for evaluating and...

A Fuzzy Preference-Ranking Model for a Quality Evaluation of Hospital Web Sites (2006)

Bilsel, Ufuk, Buyukozkan, Gulcin, Ruan, Da

This article presents a quality evaluation model for measuring the performance of hospital Web sites. The model is developed on the basis of a conceptual framework, which consists of seven major...

E-Service Intelligence -- Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (2006)

Lu, Jie, Ruan, Da, Zhang, Guangquan

Business organizations and governments are nowadays developing and providing internet based electronic services (e-services) featuring various intelligent functions. E-Service Intelligence integrates...

E-Service Intelligence: An Introduction (2006)

Lu, Jie, Ruan, Da, Zhang, Guangquan

E-service intelligence is a new research field that deals with fundamental roles, social impacts and practical applications of various intelligent technologies on the Internet based e-service...

Application of intelligent decision system to nuclear waste depository option analysis (2006)

XU, DONG-LING, YANG , JIAN-BO, Carlé, Benny, Hardeman, Frank, Ruan, Da

This paper describes how the Evidential Reasoning approach for multi-criteria decision analysis, with the support of its software implementation, Intelligent Decision System (IDS), can be used to...

Applied Artificial Intelligence (2006)

Ruan, Da, D'hondt, Pierre, Fantoni, Paolo, De Cock, Martine, Nachtegael, Mike, Kerre, Etienne

FLINS, originally an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, is now extended to Applied Artificial Intelligence for Applied Research. The contributions to the seventh...

User interface for Validation of power control algorithms in a TRIGA reactor (2006)

Benitez, Jorge, Ramirez, Cesar, Ruan, Da

The development of a user interface whose main purpose is the testing of new power control algorithms in a TRIGA Mark III reactor is presented. The interface is fully compatible with the current...

Optimizing Nuclear Reactor Operation Using Soft Computing Techniques (2006)

Entzinger, Jorg, Ruan, Da

The strict safety regulations for nuclear reactor control make it difficult to implement new control techniques such as fuzzy logic control (FLC). FLC however, can provide very desirable advantages...

On the Consistency of Rule-Bases Based on Lattice-Valued First-Order Logic LF(X) (2006)

Xu, Yang, Liu, Jun, Ruan, Da, Lee, Tsu-Tian

The consistency of a rule-base is an essential issue for the rule-based intelligent information processing. In the framework of the lattice-valued first-order logic system LF(X) which is in the...

Integrating data envelopment analysis and analytic hierarchy for the facility layout design in manufacturing systems (2006)

Ertay, Tijen, Ruan, Da, Tuzkaya, Umut

Facility Layout Design (FLD) has a very important effect on the performance of a manufacturing system. The concept of FLD is usually considered as a multi-objective problem. This paper presents a...

On a mathematical relationship between the fixed point and the closed itemset in association rule mining (2006)

Li, Tianrui, Ruan, Da, Huang, Tianmin, Xu, Yang

Association rule mining is an important research topic in knowledge discovery and data mining. Recent promising research on association rule mining is however mainly to mine the fixed point and...

On a mathematical relationship between the fixed point and the closed itemset in association rule mining (2005)

Ruan, Da, Li, Tian-rui, Huang, Tianmin, Xu, Yang

Association rule mining is one of the important research topics in knowledge discovery and data mining. Recent promising direction of association rule mining is mainly to mine closed itemsets. Based...

Fuzzy control for nuclear reactor operation – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (2005)

Ruan, Da, Benítez-Read, Jorge

Assessment of four real fuzzy control applications at the MIT research reactor in the US, the FUGEN heavy water reactor in Japan, the BR1 research reactor in Belgium, and a TRIGA Mark III reactor in...

Quality functiondeployment implementation based on analytic network process with linguistic data: an application in automotive industry (2005)

Ruan, Da, Ertay, Tijen, Büyüközkan, Gülçin, Kahraman, Cengiz

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a cross-functional planning tool, which is used to ensure that the voice of the customer is deployed throughout the product planning and design stages. The QFD...

Fusion of State Feedback, Prediction, and Fuzzy Logic for Power Regulation in a Research Reactor (2005)

Ruan, Da, Pérez-Cruz, J. Humberto

A novel control scheme for power regulation in a research nuclear reactor has been developed. The scheme combines different techniques such as state variable feedback, first order numerical...

Cost Estimations for Large Scale Engineering Projects under Uncertainties (2005)

Ruan, Da, Maes, Dirk, Aït Abderrahim, Hamid, Liu, Jun, Xu, Ling, Yang, Jian-Bo

Cost estimation for large projects can be difficult because of many complex factors and uncertainties involved. It is often the case that only very rough guesses of actual costs may be provided. In...

Intelligent Data Mining: Techniques and Applications (2005)

Ruan, Da, Chen, Guoqing, Kerre, Etienne, Wets, Geert

Intelligent Data Mining – Techniques and Applications" is an organized edited collection of contributed chapters covering basic knowledge for intelligent systems and data mining, applications in...

Sequential pattern mining (2005)

Ruan, Da, Li, Tian-Rui, Xu, Yang, Pan, Wu-ming

Sequential pattern discovery has emerged as an important research topic in knowledge discovery and data mining with broad applications. Previous research is mainly focused on investigating scalable...

Uncertain knowledge association through information gain (2005)

Ruan, Da, Tocatlidou, Athena, Kaloudis, Spiros, Lorentzos, Nikos

The problem of entity association is at the core of information mining techniques. In this work we propose an approach that links the similarity of two knowledge entities to the effort required to...

Simulated annealing approach for the multi-objective facility layout problem (2005)

Ruan, Da, Tuzkaya, Umut, Ertay, Tijen

This study has shown that data mining can be used to prepare the useful data for multi-objective layout problems. The required data in designing a facility layout procured by the production model of...

Self-tuning fuzzy rule bases with Belief structure (2005)

Ruan, Da, Liu, Jun, Yang, Jian-Bo, Martinez, Luis

A fuzzy rule-based evidential reasoning (FURBER) approach has been proposed recently, where a fuzzy rule-base designed on the basis of a belief structure (called a belief rule base) forms a basis in...

Artificial intelligence in nuclear engineering: developments, lesson learned and and future directions (2005)

Ruan, Da

In this lecture, an overview on artificial intelligence (AI) from control to decision making in nuclear engineering will be given mainly based on the 10 years progress of the FLINS forum (Fuzzy Logic...

Speeding Up the Power Response in a Reactor Using State Feedback and a First Order Predictive Stage (2005)

Ruan, Da, Benitez-Read, Jorge S., Perez-Cruz, J. Humberto, Lopez-Callejas, Régulo, Pacheco-Sotelo, Joel O.

In this paper a novel procedure for power regulation in a TRIGA Mark III nuclear reactor is presented. The control scheme combines state variable feedback with a first order predictor, which is...

Applied AI in complex systems: examples and lessons learned (2005)

Ruan, Da

An overview on applied AI techniques in control and decision making for complex systems will be given mainly based on the 10 years progress of the FLINS forum (Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technology...

A programmable DNA automaton model for context-free grammers (2005)

Ruan, Da

Context-free grammars (CFGs) are widely applied in character string modeling. The languages accepted by CFGs are also accepted by pushdown automaton (PDA), and vice verse. Taking palindrome language...

On three thinking forms: abstract, imagination and intuition based on fuzzy models (2005)

Ruan, Da, Liang, Xiaobei, Tang, Bingyong

In this paper, based on an analysis of knowledge management fuzzy model, the judgment thinking process is discussed. Then, the fuzzy models of three thinking forms based on intelligent information...

Gathering linguistic information in distributed intelligent agent on the Internet (2005)

Ruan, Da, Pei, Zheng, Xu, Yang

Much information is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information implies the use of operators of comparison and aggregation. Based on the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA)...

Evaluation of software development projects by a fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach (2005)

Ruan, Da, Büyüközkan, Gulcin

The number of unsuccessful software development projects surpasses that of successful developments, particularly when large projects are analyzed. This study proposes a fuzzy multi-criteria decision...

Use of ANN in a Research Reactor Power Fuzzy Controller (2005)

Benitez-Read, Jorge S, Ruan, Da, Ruiz-Enciso, Jorge A., López-Callejas, Régulo, Pacheco-Sotelo, Joel O

Six artificial neural networks (ANN) were developed to compute the membership values of the consequents of a fuzzy rule evaluation table, which is part of a Mamdani type fuzzy controller. This...

Artificial intelligence in nuclear reactor operation (2005)

Ruan, Da, Benitez-Read, Jorge

Assessment of four real fuzzy control applications at the MIT research reactor in the US, the FUGEN heavy water reactor in Japan, the BR1 research reactor in Belgium, and a TRIGA Mark III reactor in...

Multi-follower linear bilevel programming: model and Kuhn-Tucker approach (2005)

Ruan, Da, Lu, Jie, Shi, Chenggen, Zhang, Guangquan

The majority of research on bilevel programming has centered on the linear version of the problem in which only one leader and single follower are involved. This paper proposes a general model and...

A study of enterprise human resource competence appraisement (2005)

Ruan, Da, Liu, Xiaohong, Xu, Yang

For an enterprise, the competence of human resource is more important than the intellect or the basic quality of human resource. This paper aims to present a competence appraisement model of human...

Comparison between a continuous and a discrete method for the aggregation and deffuzification stages of a TRIGA reactor power fuzzy controller (2005)

Ruan, Da, Benitez-Read, Jorge, Najera-Hernandez, Magnolia, Perez-Clavel, Benjamin, Pacheco-Sotelo, Joel

This paper presents a comparison of the performance of two different methods to realize the aggregation and the centre of gravity stages of a fuzzy controller that is under development for its...

International cooperation on control for safe operation of nuclear research reactors (2005)

Ruan, Da, Benitez-Read, Jorge, Perez-Martinez, Claudia, Perez-Cruz, Humberto

The purpose of this paper is to present some of the main reasons, objectives, planning, and recent advances of an SCK•CEN/ININ joint project, which deals with the design and application of...

Computational Intelligence in Nuclear Applications: Lessons Learned and Recent Developments (2005)

Ruan, Da, Hines, Wesley, Pazsit, Imre

The main objective of this special issue is to publish a peer-reviewed collection of high quality papers in the relevant topic areas. The focus is on those papers that provide theoretical/analytical...

Data envelopment analysis based decision model for optimal operator selection in CMS (2005)

Ruan, Da, Ertay, Tijen

This paper presents a decision making approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for determining the most efficient operator number and the efficient measurement of labor assignment in...

(┬,┴,N) Fuzzy logic (2001)

Xu, Y., Liu, J., Ruan, Da

To investigate more reasonable fuzzy reasoning model in expert systems as well as more effective logical circuit in fuzzy control, a $(\top, \bot, N)$ fuzzy logic is proposed in this paper by using...

(┬,┴,N) Fuzzy logic (2001)

Xu, Y., Liu, J., Ruan, Da

To investigate more reasonable fuzzy reasoning model in expert systems as well as more effective logical circuit in fuzzy control, a $(\top, \bot, N)$ fuzzy logic is proposed in this paper by using...

Safety regulations of fuzzy-logic control to nuclear reactors (2000)

Ruan, Da

We present an R&D project on fuzzy-logic control applications to the Belgian Nuclear Reactor 1 (BR1) at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN). The project started in 1995 and aimed at...

Safety regulations of fuzzy-logic control to nuclear reactors (2000)

Ruan, Da

We present an R&D project on fuzzy-logic control applications to the Belgian Nuclear Reactor 1 (BR1) at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN). The project started in 1995 and aimed at...

(┬,┴,N) Fuzzy logic (1970)

Y. Xu, J. Liu, Da Ruan

To investigate more reasonable fuzzy reasoning model in expert systems as well as more effective logical circuit in fuzzy control, a $(\top, \bot, N)$ fuzzy logic is proposed in this paper by using...

Safety regulations of fuzzy-logic control to nuclear reactors (1970)

Da Ruan

We present an R&D project on fuzzy-logic control applications to the Belgian Nuclear Reactor 1 (BR1) at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN). The project started in 1995 and aimed at...

A MULTI-ATTRIBUTE COMPARISON OF TURKISH QUALITY CONSULTANTS BY FUZZY AHP

UFUK CEBECI, DA RUAN

Quality consultants are used in ISO 9000 implementation projects especially by many small and medium-sized enterprises. Clients do not always appreciate differences between quality consultants. This...

AN EXTENDED BRANCH AND BOUND ALGORITHM FOR BILEVEL MULTI-FOLLOWER DECISION MAKING IN A REFERENTIAL-UNCOOPERATIVE SITUATION

JIE LU, CHENGGEN SHI, GUANGQUAN ZHANG, DA RUAN

Within the framework of any bilevel decision problem, a leader's decision at the upper level is influenced by the reaction of their follower at the lower level. When multiple followers are involved...

A CREDIT EVALUATION IN E-BUSINESS THROUGH GAME THEORY

XIAOHONG LIU, DA RUAN, TIANRUI LI

The security of both technical and trade credit factors becomes a serious bottleneck that affects the current development of e-business. Honest behavior is one of the important aspects of trade...