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An Approach to Automatic Generation of Fuzzy Membership Functions Using Popularity Metrics

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Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research (WSKS 2011)

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Creating membership functions for fuzzy system can be a difficult task for non-expert developers. This is even more difficult when the information available about the specific domain is limited. In our case, we wanted to create membership functions that model the different characteristics of mobile devices. Due to the lack of public data about the mobile phones sales it is difficult to estimate the market share of each device. To tackle this problem we have developed a mechanism that uses popularity metrics to estimate the market share and generate the membership functions. In this paper we describe the used algorithm and discuss the obtained results.

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  1. Deusto Institute of Technology - DeustoTech, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

    Aitor Almeida, Pablo Orduña, Eduardo Castillejo & Diego López-de-Ipiña

  2. Treelogic, Llanera, Spain

    Marcos Sacristán

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  1. The American College of Greece, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Da Ruan

  3. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  4. University of Oviedo, Oviedo-Asturias, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  5. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Francisco José García Peñalvo

  6. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Lazar Rusu

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Almeida, A., Orduña, P., Castillejo, E., López-de-Ipiña, D., Sacristán, M. (2013). An Approach to Automatic Generation of Fuzzy Membership Functions Using Popularity Metrics. In: Lytras, M.D., Ruan, D., Tennyson, R.D., Ordonez De Pablos, P., García Peñalvo, F.J., Rusu, L. (eds) Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research. WSKS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35879-1_66

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