Soft Methods for Data Science (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 456)

Mean Value and Variance of Fuzzy Numbers with Non-continuous Membership Functions.- On the Construction of Radially Symmetric Trivariate Copulas.- Simulation of the Night Shift Solid Waste Collection System of Phuket Municipality.- Updating Context in the Equation: An Experimental Argument with Eye Tracking.- Black-Litterman Model with Multiple Experts' Linguistic Views.- Representing Lightweight Ontologies in a Product-Based Possibility Theory Framework.- Asymptotics of Predictive Distributions.- Independent K-Sample Equality Distribution Test Based on the Fuzzy Representation.- Agglomerative Fuzzy Clustering.- Bayesian Inference with Linkage Uncertainty: Applications in Official Statistics.- The Extension of Imprecise Probabilities Based on Generalized Credal Sets.- A Generalized SMART Fuzzy Disjunction of Volatility Indicators Applied to Option Pricing in a Binomial Model.- The Representation of Conglomerative Functionals.- The Likelihood Interpretation of Fuzzy Data.- Combining the Information of Multiple Ranker in Ranked Set Sampling with Fuzzy Set Approach.- A Savage-like Representation Theorem for Preferences on Multi-acts.- On Some Functional Characterizations of (fuzzy) Set-Valued Random Elements.- Maximum Likelihood Under Incomplete Information: Toward a Comparison of Criteria.- The Use of Uncertainty to Choose Matching Variables in Statistical Matching.- Beyond Fuzzy, Possibilistic and Rough: An Investigation of Belief Functions in Clustering.- Small Area Estimation in Presence of Linkage Errors.- A Test for Truncation Invariant Dependence.- Finite Mixture Of Linear Regression Models: An Adaptive Constrained Approach to Maximum Likelihood Estimation.- Detecting Dependence in Tourists' Spending Behavior.- Robust Fuzzy Clustering via Trimming and Constraints.- One-factor Levy-frailty Copulas with Inhomogeneous Trigger Rates.- A Perceptron Classifier and Corresponding Probabilities.- Fuzzy -Signals Fed to Gaussian Channels.- Fuzzy Clustering Through Robust Factor Analyzers.- Consensus-based Clustering in Numerical Decision-Making.- Spatial Outlier Detection Using GAMs and Geographical Information Systems.- Centering and Compound Conditionals Under Coherence.- Approximate Bayesian Methods for Multivariate and Conditonal Copulae.- The Sign Test for the Interval-Valued Data.- Probability Distributions Related to Fuzzy P-Values.- Probabilistic Semantics and Pragmatics for the Language of Uncertainty.- Dynamic Analysis of the Development of Scientific Communities in the Field of Soft Computing.- Talk to your Neighbour: a Belief Propagation Approach to Data Fusion.- The Qualitative Characteristics of Combining Evidence with Discounting.- Measuring the Dissimilarity Between the Distributions of Two Random Fuzzy Numbers.- An Empirical Analysis of the Coherence Between Fuzzy Rating Scale- and Likert Scale-Based Responses to Questionnaires.- Asymptotic Results for Sums of Independent Random Variables with Alternating Laws.- Dispersion Measures and Multidistances on Rk.- Full Conglomerability, Continuity and Marginal Extension.- On Extreme Points of P-Boxes and Belief Functions.- Modelling the Dependence in Multivariate Longitudinal Data by Pair Copula Decomposition.- Predictability in Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems.- A Sandwich Theorem for Natural Extensions.- Envelopes of Joint Probabilities with Given Marginals Under Absolute Continuity or Equivalence Constraints.- Square of Opposition Under Coherence.- Testing of Coarsening Mechanisms: Coarsening at Random Versus Subgroup Independence.- Two-sample Similarity Test for the Expected Value of Random Intervals.- Handling Uncertainty in Structural Equation Modeling.- Detecting Inconsistencies in Revision Problems.- Tukeys Biweight Loss Function for Fuzzy Set-Valued M-Estimators of Location.- Technical Gestures Recognition by Set-Valued Hidden Markov Models with Prior Knowledge.- Time Series Modeli