BROWSE
Detail
Journal Article
An Integrated Risk Index Model Based on Hierarchical Fuzzy Logic for Underground Risk Assessment
- Authors
- Muhammad Fayaz, Israr Ullah, Dong-Hwan Park, Kwangsoo Kim, DoHyeun Kim
- Issue Date
- 2017-10
- Citation
- Applied Sciences, v.7, no.10, pp.1-21
- ISSN
- 2076-3417
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Available space in congested cities is getting scarce due to growing urbanization in the recent past. The utilization of underground space is considered as a solution to the limited space in smart cities. The numbers of underground facilities are growing day by day in the developing world. Typical underground facilities include the transit subway, parking lots, electric lines, water supply and sewer lines. The likelihood of the occurrence of accidents due to underground facilities is a random phenomenon. To avoid any accidental loss, a risk assessment method is required to conduct the continuous risk assessment and report any abnormality before it happens. In this paper, we have proposed a hierarchical fuzzy inference based model for under-ground risk assessment. The proposed hierarchical fuzzy inference architecture reduces the total number of rules from the rule base. Rule reduction is important because the curse of dimensionality damages the transparency and interpretation as it is very tough to understand and justify hundreds or thousands of fuzzy rules. The computation time also increases as rules increase. The proposedmodel takes 175 rules having eight input parameters to compute the risk index, and the conventional fuzzy logic requires 390,625 rules, having the same number of input parameters to compute risk index. Hence, the proposed model significantly reduces the curse of dimensionality. Rule design for fuzzy logic is also a tedious task. In this paper, we have also introduced new rule schemes, namely maximum rule-based and average rule-based; both schemes can be used interchangeably according to the logic needed for rule design. The experimental results show that the proposed method is a virtuous choice for risk index calculation where the numbers of variables are greater.
- KSP Keywords
- Developing world, Electric lines, Hierarchical fuzzy, Index model, Input parameters, Limited space, Parking lot, Proposed model, Risk assessment method, Risk index, Rule-based
This work is distributed under the term of Creative Commons License (CCL)
(CC BY)
(CC BY)
