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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10636-8
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- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [2020M683736]
- Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China [LH2021F038]
- innovation practice project of college students in Heilongjiang Province [202010231009, 202110231024, 202110231155]
- graduate quality training and improvement project of Harbin Normal University [1504120015]
- graduate academic innovation project of Harbin Normal University [HSDSSCX2021-120, HSDSSCX2021-29]
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This paper proposes a novel BRB model with interval-valued references (BRB-IR), which integrates qualitative knowledge and quantitative data to construct models, and obtains optimal referential values through optimization algorithms. The results of a case study show that this new model is more effective and better characterizes expert knowledge than the traditional model with single-valued references.
As an essential parameter in the belief rule base (BRB), referential values refer to evaluation criteria for describing attributes using quantitative data or linguistic terms, the rationality and preciseness of which are important to the modeling accuracy. At present, the studies on referential values of BRB are mainly related to single-valued data. However, due to the inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and vagueness of expert knowledge, the single-valued references provided by experts cannot represent qualitative information adequately. In this paper, a novel BRB with interval-valued references (BRB-IR) is proposed, in which qualitative knowledge and quantitative data can be integrated to construct models. First, the interval-valued referential values provided by experts are optimized by a nonlinear optimization algorithm to obtain the optimal referential values. Furthermore, other model parameters are optimized by the projection covariance matrix adaptation evolutionary strategy (P-CMA-ES) algorithm. Finally, a case study for pipeline leak detection is constructed to verify the model's effectiveness, and the results show that the proposed BRB-IR is more effective and characterizes expert knowledge better than the classical BRB using single-valued references.
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