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Power of Linguistic Data Summaries and Their Protoforms

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Computational Intelligence Systems in Industrial Engineering

Part of the book series: Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems ((ATLANTISCIS,volume 6))

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We consider linguistic data (base) exemplified by, for a personnel database, “most employees are young and well paid” (with some degree of truth) and their extensions as a very general tool for a human consistent summarization of large data sets. We advocate the use of the concept of Zadeh’s protoforms (prototypical forms) of linguistic summaries, in their more advanced form proposed by Kacprzyk and Zadro zny. Then, we present an extension of our interactive approach to the generation of linguistic summaries through the use of our fuzzy querying interface supporting queries with fuzzy linguistic quantifiers. We concentrate on a specific type of linguistic summaries which parallel specific fuzzy association rules, and show the use of an efficient algorithm for mining such rules. We show an extension to the dynamic case of by using linguistic summaries of times series data. As an example we show the use of linguistic summaries for Web server log analysis, in both the static and dynamic case. The results can be useful for the design and maintenance of computer networks.

To the memory of Professor Da Ruan, a younger colleague and a close friend, who has been able to always maintain a proper balance between a formal and analytic elegance, and practical usefulness, and feel of what really matters.

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This works was partially supported by the National Science Centre (contract no. UMO-2011/01/B/ST6/06908).

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  2. Warsaw School of Information Technology, ul Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Sławomir Zadro˙zny

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  1. Fac. Management, Dept. Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Campus Macka, Istanbul, 34367, Turkey

    Cengiz Kahraman

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Kacprzyk, J., Zadro˙zny, S. (2012). Power of Linguistic Data Summaries and Their Protoforms. In: Kahraman, C. (eds) Computational Intelligence Systems in Industrial Engineering. Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems, vol 6. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-77-0_4

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