PENG , Hong

Multi-level thresholding methods are a class of most popular image segmentation techniques, however, they are not computationally efficient since they exhaustively search the optimal thresholds to optimize the objective function. In order to eliminate the shortcoming, a novel multi-level thresholding method for image segmentation based on...

Membrane computing is a class of distributed parallel computing models. Inspired from the structure and inherent mechanism of membrane computing, a membrane clustering algorithm is proposed to deal with automatic clustering problem, in which a tissue-like membrane system with fully connected structure is designed as its computing framework....

A new fault diagnosis method based on improved Adaptive fuzzy spiking neural P systems (in short, AFSN P systems) and Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is presented to improve the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis for power systems in this paper. AFSN P systems are a novel kind of computing models with parallel computing and...

Fuzzy clustering problem is usually posed as an optimization problem. However, the existing researchhas shown that clustering technique that optimizes a single cluster validity index may not provide satisfactory results on different kinds of data sets. This paper proposes a multiobjective clustering frameworkfor fuzzy clustering, in which a...

Spiking neural P systems (SN P systems) are a new class of computing models inspired by the neurophysiological be-havior of biological spiking neurons. In order to make SN P sys-tems capable of representing and processing fuzzy and uncertain knowledge, we propose a new class of spiking neural P systems in this paper called weighted fuzzy...

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In this paper, intuitionistic fuzzy spiking neural P (IFSNP) systems as a variant are proposed by integrating intuitionistic fuzzy logic into original spiking neural P systems. Compared with a common fuzzy set, intuitionistic fuzzy set can more finely describe the uncertainty due to its membership and non-membership degrees. Therefore, IFSNP...

Spiking neural P systems (in short, SN P systems) and their variants, in- cluding fuzzy spiking neural P systems (in short, FSN P systems), generally lack learning ability so far. Aiming at this problem, a class of modi ed FSN P systems are proposed in this paper, called adaptive fuzzy spiking neural P systems (in short, AFSN P systems). The...

The conventional methods are not effective and efficient for image multi-level thresholding due to time-consuming and expensive computation cost. The multi-level thresholding problem can be posed as anoptimization problem, optimizing some thresholding criterion. In this paper, membrane computing isintroduced to propose an efficient and robust...

The application of Membrane Computing techniques to the study of digital images has been a vivid research area in the last years. In this paper, some of the research lines are presented and many of the main published papers are cited in the bibliography.

Membrane computing (known as P systems) is a novel class of distributed parallel computing models inspired by the structure and functioning of living cells and organs, and its application to the real-world problems has become a hot topic in recent years. This paper discusses an interesting open problem in digital watermarking domain, optimal...

This paper focuses on the unsupervised learning problem within membrane computing, and proposes an innovative solution inspired by membrane computing techniques, the fuzzy membrane clustering algorithm. An evolution–communication P system with nested membrane structure is the core component of the algorithm. The feasible cluster centers are...

Pulse coupled neural networks (PCNN, for short) are models abstracting the synchronization behavior observed experimentally for the cortical neurons in the visual cortex of a cat's brain, and the intersecting cortical model is a simplified version of the PCNN model. Membrane computing (MC) is a kind computation paradigm abstracted from the...

The existing membrane clustering algorithms may fail to handle the data sets with non-spherical cluster boundaries. To overcome the shortcoming, this paper introduces kernel methods into membrane clustering algorithms and proposes a kernel-based membrane clustering algorithm, KMCA. By using non-linear kernel function, samples in original data...

This paper focuses on an application of membrane systems to solve classification problems. Decision tree technique has been widely used to construct classification models because such models can closely resemble human reasoning and are easy to understand. A novel membrane computing-based decision tree induction algorithm is developed in this...

Spiking neural P systems (SN P systems) have been well established as a novel class of distributed parallel computing models. Some features that SN P systems possess are attractive to fault diagnosis. However, handling fuzzy diagnosis knowledge and reasoning is required for many fault diagnosis applications. The lack of ability is a major...

Membrane computing (known as P systems) is a class of distributed parallel computing models, this paper presents a novel algorithm under membrane computing for solving the data clustering problem, called as membrane clustering algorithm. The clustering algorithm is based on a tissue-like P system with a loop structure of cells. The objects of...

P systems are a new class of distributed parallel computing models. In this paper, a novel three-level thresholding approach for image segmentation based on celllike P systems is proposed in order to improve the computational efficiency of multilevel thresholding. A cell-like P system with a specially designed membrane structure is developed...

It is a challenge problem how to deal with the uncertainty in fault diagnosis of power systems. To solve the challenge problem, this paper introduces an interval-valued fuzzy spiking neural P system (IVFSNP system), where the interval-valued fuzzy logic is integrated into spiking neural P systems to characterize the uncertainty. Based on the...

To reveal fault propagation paths is one of the most critical studies for the analysis of power system security; however, it is rather dif cult. This paper proposes a new framework for the fault propagation path modeling method of power systems based on membrane computing.We rst model the fault propagation paths by proposing the event spiking...

It was recently found that dendrites are not just a passive channel. They can perform mixed computation of analog and digital signals, and therefore can be abstracted as information processors. Moreover, dendrites possess a feedback mechanism. Motivated by these computational and feedback characteristics, this article proposes a new variant of...

Nonlinear spiking neural P (NSNP) systems are neural-like membrane computing models with nonlinear spiking mechanisms. Because of this nonlinear spiking mechanism, NSNP systems can show rich nonlinear dynamics. Reservoir computing (RC) is a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) and can overcome some shortcomings of traditional RNNs. Based on...