This paper examines the diverse responses of the German states to the Code Napoleon at the beginning of the nineteenth century. These states differed both in the extent to which they adopted the Code, and the extent to which they retained the Code after Napoleon’s influence waned. In order to...

While reducing the dimensionality of a corpus, concept decomposition (CD) based on fuzzy K-means (FKM) clustering provides better approximation than CD based on spherical k-means clustering. However, performance of the FKM algorithm is limited by its distance metric and it is proved that...

Fuzzy set theory has been explicitly introduced to deal with vagueness and ambiguity. One can also use probability theory or techniques borrowed from philosophical logic. In this chapter, we consider fuzzy preferences and we survey the literature on aggregation of fuzzy preferences. We restrict...

This paper examines the various multi-criteria approaches of fuzzy classification rule mining. An updated state-of-the-art multi-objective genetic algorithm is given. Further, various genetic algorithm-based fuzzy classification rule mining techniques are studied. In view of the intractability...

For any manufacturing or service organization, selecting the right upstream suppliers is a key success factor that will significantly reduce purchasing cost, increase downstream customer satisfaction and improve competitive ability. There are several quantitative as well as qualitative criteria,...