Aims & Scope
The purpose of the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology is to foster advancements of knowledge and help disseminate results concerning recent applications and case studies in the areas of fuzzy logic, intelligent systems, and web-based applications among working professionals and professionals in education and research, covering a broad cross-section of technical disciplines.
The journal will publish original articles on current and potential applications, case studies, and education in intelligent systems, fuzzy systems, and web-based systems for engineering and other technical fields in science and technology. The journal focuses on the disciplines of computer science, electrical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, engineering management, bioengineering, and biomedical engineering. The scope of the journal also includes developing technologies in mathematics, operations research, technology management, the hard and soft sciences, and technical, social and environmental issues.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Reza Langari
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Email: rlangari@tamu.edu
Founding Editors
Mo M. Jamshidi
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Timothy J. Ross
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Honorary Editor
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Book Review Editor
Vladik Kreinovich
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
Ajith Abraham
Machine Intelligence Research Labs
Washington, DC, USA
Krassimir T. Atanassov
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria
Zeungnam Bien
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Taejon, Korea
Bimal Kumar Bose
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN, USA
Madan M. Gupta
Saskatchewan University
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Fred Hadaegh
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
Mohammad M. Jamshidi
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Lesheng Jin
Nanjing Normal University
China
Zhaojie Ju
University of Portsmouth
UK
Janusz Kacprzyk
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland
Cengiz Kahraman
Istanbul Technical University
Turkey
Jim Keller
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO, USA
Heikki N. Koivo
Helsinki University of Technology
Helsinki, Finland
Om P. Malik
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB, Canada
Victor Maojo
Polytechnical University of Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Hung T. Nguyen
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM, USA
Witold Pedrycz
University of Alberta Edmonton
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Lambert Spaanenburg
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
Timothy J. Ross
Department of Civil Engineering
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
John Yen
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Associate Editors
Tareq Al-shami
Department of Mathematics; Sana'a University
Yemen
Felix Albu
Valahia University of Targoviste
Targoviste, Romania
Adel Alimi
University of Sfax
Sfax, Tunisia
Tofigh Allahviranloo
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Istanbul, Turkey
Shahzaib Ashraf
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology Punjab, Pakistan
Nebojsa Bacanin
Singidunum University
Serbia
Olexander Barmak
Khmelnytskyi National University
Khmalnytsky, Ukraine
Ildar Batyrshin
Instituto Politecnico Nacional
Mexico City, Mexico
Svajone Bekešienė
The General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Vilnius, Lithuania
Salah Bouktif
United Arab Emirates University
United Arab Emirates
Selim Buyrukoğlu
Çankırı Karatekin University
Turkey
Francisco Javier Cabrerizo
Distance Learning University of Spain
Granada, Spain
Antonio Calcagnì
DPSS, University of Padova
Padova, Italy
Hiram Calvo
Centro de Investigación en Computación – IPN
Mexico City, Mexico
Zehong Cao
University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia
Gabriella Casalino
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, Italy
Ciro Castiello
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, Italy
Selcuk Cebi
Yildiz Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
Sezi Cevik Onar
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
Chinmay Chakrabarty
Birla Institute of Technology
Ranchi, India
Debjani Chakraborty
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, India
Jinxing Che
Nanchang Institute of Technology
China
Chengwu Chen
National Kaohsiung Marine University
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chien-Ming Chen
Shandong University of Science and Technology
China
Shyi-Ming Chen
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Taipei, Taiwan
Xia Chen
Sichuan University
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Zhen-Song Chen
Wuhan University
Wuhan, China
Francisco Chiclana
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Yao-Liang Chung
National Taiwan Ocean University
Keelung City, Taiwan
Bijan Davvaz
Yazd University
Yazd, Iran
Wu Deng
Civil Aviation University of China
China
Hasan Dincer
Istanbul Medipol University
Istanbul, Turkey
Weiping Ding
Nantong University
Nantong, China
Xinyu Du
General Motors Research Laboratories
Warren, MI, USA
Bapi Dutta
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Ponciano Jorge Escamilla-Ambrosio
Centro de Investigación en Computación
Mexico
Can Gao
Shenzhen University
Shenzhen, China
Qing Gao
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
Xiao-Zhi Gao
University of Eastern Finland
Kuopio, Finland
Akhil Garg
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
China
Ankit Garg
Shantou University
Shantou, China
Harish Garg
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
Patiala, India
Alexander Gegov
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Gevork B. Gharehpetian
Amirkabir University of Technology
Tehran, Iran
Susmita Ghosh
Jadavpur University
India
Ramon Alberto Carrasco Gonzalez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Xunjie Gou
Sichuan University
China
Sarah Greenfield
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Alfonso Guarino
Research Fellow – UniSannio
Benevento, Italy
S.K. Gupta
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University
India
Jeonghwan Gwak
Korea National University of Transportation
Korea
Meng Han
Binjiang Institute of Zhejiang University Hangzhou
Zhejiang, China
Peng Hao
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian, China
Yan Hao
Business School
Shandong Normal University
Jinan, China
Hooman Harandizadeh
Shahid Bahonar University
Kerman, Iran
Enrique Herrera-Viedma
University of Granada
Granada, Spain
Farshad Homaei
Graduate University of Advanced Technology
Kerman, Iran
Noriyasu Homma
Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan
Tetiana Hovorushchenko
Khmelnytskyi National University
Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
Jun Hu
Harbin University of Science and Technology
Harbin, China
Raheleh Jafari
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom
Naeem Jan
National University of Transportation
Korea
Mohammad A. Jaradat
American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, UAE
Wenqiang Ji
Hebei University of Technology
Xiping Street, China
Shancheng Jiang
Sun Yat-sen University
China
Yuchen Jiang
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China
Ruwang Jiao
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
Feifei Jin
Anhui University
Hefei, China
Firuz Kamalov
Canadian University at Dubai
UAE
Faruk Karaaslan
Department of Mathematics
Çankırı Karatekin University
Turkey
Ihsan Kaya
Yıldız Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey
Mohammad Ayub Khan
University of Bisha
Bisha, Saudi Arabia
Yeesock Kim
California Baptist University
Riverside, CA, USA
Olga Kolesnikova
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Mexico City, Mexico
Viacheslav Kovtun
Vinnytsia National Technical University
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Ajay Kumar
KIET Group of Institutions
Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad, India
Aswani Kumar
Cherukuri
Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore, India
Manoj Kumar
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
Dehradun, India
Marija Kuzmanović
University of Belgrade
Serbia
Cong-cong Li
Southwest Jiaotong University
Chengdu, China
Gang Li
Deakin University
Australia
Jinhai Li
Data Science Research Center
Kunming, China
Qian Li
Curtin University
Australia
Decui Liang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Hefei, China
Haiming Liang
Department of Management and System Sciences
Sichuan University
China
Huchang Liao
Sichuan University
Chengdu, China
Jian Lin
College of Computer and Information Sciences,
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Fuzhou, China
Mingwei Lin
Fujian Normal University
Fuzhou, China
Jian Liu
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Nanjing, China
Peide Liu
Shandong University of Finance and Economics
Jinan, China
Sergii Lysenko
Khmelnytskyi National University
Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
Xueling Ma
Hubei University for Nationalities
Hubei, China
Mohamed A. Mahfouz
MSA University
6th October City, Egypt
Tahir Mahmood
International Islamic University Islamabad
Pakistan
Muthukumaran Malarvel
Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
India
Marek T. Malinowski
Cracow University of Technology
Kraków, Poland
Eduard Manziuk
Khmelnytskyi National University
Ukraine
Delfina Malandrino
Department of Informatics
University of Salerno
Fisciano, Italy
Luis Martínez López
University of Jaén
Jaén, Spain
Fabrizio Maturo
Universitas Mercatorum
Rome, Italy
Reza Kiani Mavi
Edith Cowan University
Joondalup, WA, Australia
Šárka Hoskova-Mayerova
University of Defence
Brno-střed, Czech Republic
Nataliia Melnykova
Lviv Polytechnic National University
Lviv, Ukraine
Miguel González Mendoza
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Mexico
Fanlin Meng
University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
Fanyong Meng
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Nanjing, China
Javier Montero
Complutense University
Madrid, Spain
Mohammad Najafzadeh
Graduate University of Advanced Technology
Kerman, Iran
Mariia Andriivna Nazarkevych
Lviv Polytechnic National University
Lviv, Ukraine
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Wrocław, Poland
Michal Novak
Brno University of Technology
Brno, Czech Republic
Fabio Di Nunno
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Italy
Dragan Pamucar
University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
Srikanta Patnaik
SOA University
Bhubaneswar, India
Jose Ignacio Pelaez
University of Malaga
Málaga, Spain
Dilip Kumar Pratihar
Centre for Excellence in Robotics
Kharagpur, India
Wenbin Qian
Jiangxi Agricultural University
Nanchang, China
Junsheng Qiao
Northwest Normal University
Lanzhou, China
Jianbin Qiu
Space Control and Inertial Technology Research Centre
Harbin, China
Shaojian Qu
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
China
Yanpeng Qu
Dalian Maritime University
Dalian, China
Pavlo Radiuk
Khmelnytskyi National University
Ukraine
Zia Ur Rahman
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation
India
Mamoon Rashid
Vishwakarma University
India
Hemant Kumar Reddy
National Institute of Science & Technology
Berhampur, India
Inayatur Rehman
Dhofar University Salalah
Salalah, Oman
A. Johny Renoald
Erode Sengunthar Engineering College
India
Muhammad Riaz
Department of Mathematics
University of the Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan
Juan Vicente Riera
University of the Balearic Islands
Palma, Spain
Rosa Maria Rodríguez
University of Jaén
Jaén, Spain
Sovan Samanta
Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya
Tamluk, India
Chaitanya Sankavaram
Vehicle Systems Research Lab
Warren, MI, USA
Ekrem Savas
Yuzuncu Yıl University
Van, Turkey
Wen-Long Shang
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing, China
Achyut Shankar
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Ming-Wen Shao
China University of Petroleum
Beijing, China
Bhisham Sharma
Chitkara University
Punjab, India
Wasfi Shatanawi
Hashemite University
Zarqa, Jordan
Razieh Sheikhpour
Ardakan University
Iran
Gong Shengrong
Changshu Institute of Technology
China
Grigori Sidorov
Instituto Politecnico Nacional
Mexico City, Mexico
Vladimir Simic
University of Belgrade
Serbia
Pritpal Singh
Tezpur Central University
Kraków, India
Le Hoang Son
Vietnam National University
Hanoi, Vietnam
Souhir Ben Souissi
Bern University of Applied Science
Bern, Switzerland
Ruidan Su
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
Kangkang Sun
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China
Lin Sun
Henan Normal University
Xinxiang, China
Reza Tafreshi
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Yiming Tang
Hefei University of Technology
Hefei, China
Roman O. Tkachenko
Lviv Polytechnic National University
Lviv, Ukraine
Pei-Wei Tsai
Swinburne University of Technology
Australia
Kifayat Ullah
Riphah International University
Pakistan
Raquel Ureña
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
José Valente De Oliveira
University of Algarve
Faro, Portugal
Bay Vo
Ho Chi Minh University of Technology
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Jun Tao Wang
Xi'an Shiyou University
Xi'an, China
Tong Wang
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China
Xinxin Wang
Sichuan University
China
Jian-Zhang Wu
Ningbo University
Ningbo, China
Jian Wu
Shanghai Maritime University
Shanghai, China
Peng Wu
Nanjing University of Science &Technology
China
Xing Wu
Shanghai University
Shanghai,China
Xingli Wu
Sichuan University
Chengdu, China
Zhihui Wu
Harbin University of Science and Technology
China
Zhou Wu
Chongqing University
Chong Qing Shi, China
Kaijian Xia
Changshu Hospital of Soochow University
Jiangsu, China
Hailu Xu
California State University
Long Beach, CA, USA
Weihua Xu
Southwest University
Chongqing, China
Zeshui Xu
Sichuan University
Chengdu, China
Xingsi Xue
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
and Fujian University of Technology
China
Bin Yang
Northwest A&F University
Xianyang, China
Gongping Yang
Shandong University
Jinan, China
Longzhi Yang
Northumbria University
Newcastle, United Kingdom
Wanqi Yang
Nanjing Normal University
Nanjing, China
Wendong Yang
Shandong University of Finance and Economics
Shandong, China
Yingjie Yang
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Zaoli Yang
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing China
Naveed Yaqoob
Riphah International University
Islamabad, Pakistan
Atousa Yazdani
Sacramento State University
Sacramento, CA USA
Morteza Yazdani
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Shen Yin
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway
Hao Ying
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, USA
Dejian Yu
Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
Hangzhou, China
Wen Yu
CINVESTAV-IPN
Mexico City, Mexico
Wenyu Yu
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
China
Rocco Zaccagnino
University of Salerno
Fisciano, Italy
Gianluca Zaza
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Italy
Reza Yousefi Zenouz
Queen’s University Belfast
Ireland
Jianming Zhan
Hubei University for Nationalities
Enshi City, China
Min Zhan
Hunan University of Technology and Business
China
Haijun Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin, China
Hengjie Zhang
Hohai University
Nanjing, China
Qiang Zhang
Beijing Institute of Technology
Haidian, China
Weiping Zhang
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xi'an, China
Yuanpeng Zhang
Nantong University
China
Zhen Zhang
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian, China
Huiming Zhao
Civil Aviation University of China
China
Mingbo Zhao
Donghua University
China
Zhigao Zheng
Wuhan University
China
Mu Zhou
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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Shangming Zhou
Swansea University
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Ta Zhou
Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
Zhenjiang, China
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Hong Kong Polytechnical University
Hong Kong
Wei Zhou
Yunnan University of Finance and Economics
China
Ye Zhu
Deakin University
Australia
Zhenfang Zhu
Shandong Jiaotong University
China
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