In recent years, with the popularity of social media, users are increasingly keen to express their feelings and opinions in the form of pictures and text, which makes multimodal data with text and pictures the con tent type with the most growth. Most of the information posted by users on social media has obvious sentimental aspects, and multimodal sentiment analysis has become an important research field. Previous studies on multimodal sentiment analysis have primarily focused on extracting text and image features separately and then combining them for sentiment classification. These studies often ignore the interaction between text and images. Therefore, this paper proposes a new multimodal sentiment analysis model. The model first eliminates noise interference in textual data and extracts more important image features. Then, in the feature-fusion part based on the attention mechanism, the text and images learn the internal features from each other through symmetry. Then the fusion features are applied to sentiment classification tasks. The experimental results on two common multimodal sentiment datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) method has been widely utilized to solve the problem of risk assessment in all walks of life. An FMEA decision support model considering expert clustering and risk attitude is constructed. First, expert risk assessment information is processed in cloud environment. The clustering behavior of experts is simulated based on trust relationship, opinion similarity and risk attitude similarity. Second, consensus opinions are formed through opinion evolution, and the group weight determination model is constructed considering the group size and consensus level. Finally, a linear programming model minimizing individual regret is used to solve the risk factor weight problem. Combined with regret theory and the TODIM method considering finite rationality, the priority of risk is determined. The novel FMEA approach is applied to address reliability management problem of smart bracelets. Sensitivity and comparative analyses demonstrated the effectiveness and superiority of this method and enrich the theoretical research of the FMEA approach.

Geological exploration plays a fundamental and crucial role in geological engineering. The most frequently used method is to obtain borehole videos using an axial view borehole camera system (AVBCS) in a pre-drilled borehole. This approach to surveying the internal structure of a borehole is based on the video playback and video screenshot analysis. One of the drawbacks of AVBCS is that it provides only a qualitative description of borehole information with a forward-looking borehole video, but quantitative analysis of the borehole data, such as the width and dip angle of fracture, are unavailable. In this paper, we proposed a new approach to create a whole borehole-wall cylindrical panorama from the borehole video acquired by AVBCS, which provides a possibility for further analysis of borehole information. Firstly, based on the Otsu and region labeling algorithms, a borehole center location algorithm is proposed to extract the borehole center of each video image automatically. Afterwards, based on coordinate mapping (CM), a virtual coordinate graph (VCG) is designed in the unwrapping process of the front view borehole-wall image sequence, generating the corresponding unfolded image sequence and reducing the computational cost. Subsequently, based on the sum of absolute difference (SAD), a projection transformation SAD (PTSAD), which considers the gray level similarity of candidate images, is proposed to achieve the matching of the unfolded image sequence. Finally, an image filtering module is introduced to filter the invalid frames and the remaining frames are stitched into a complete cylindrical panorama. Experiments on two real-world borehole videos demonstrate that the proposed method can generate panoramic borehole-wall unfolded images from videos with satisfying visual effect for follow up geological condition analysis. From the resulting image, borehole information, including the rock mechanical properties, distribution and width of fracture, fault distribution and seam thickness, can be further obtained and analyzed.

Schweizer–Sklar (SS) operation can make information aggregation more flexible, and the Muirhead mean (MM) operator can take into account the correlation between inputs by a variable parameter. Because traditional MM is only available for real numbers and single-valued neutrosophic set (SVNS) can better express incomplete and uncertain information in decision systems, in this paper, we applied MM operators to single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) and presented two new MM aggregation operators with the SS operation, i.e., a single-valued neutrosophic SS Muirhead mean (SVNSSMM) operator and a weighted single-valued neutrosophic SS MM (WSVNSSMM) operator. We listed some properties of them and some particular cases about various parameter values. We also proposed the multi-criteria decision-making method based on the WSVNSSMM operator in SVNS. At last, we illustrated the feasibility of this method using a numerical example of company investment.

There are many practical decision-making problems in people’s lives, but the information given by decision makers (DMs) is often unclear and how to describe this information is of critical importance. Therefore, we introduce interval neutrosophic linguistic numbers (INLNs) to represent the less clear and uncertain information and give their operational rules and comparison methods. In addition, since the Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM) operator has the special characteristic of capturing the interrelationships among multi-input arguments, we further propose an MSM operator for INLNs (INLMSM). Furthermore, considering the weights of attributes are the important parameters and they can influence the decision results, we also propose a weighted INLMSM (WINLMSM) operator. Based on the WINLMSM operator, we develop a multiple attribute decision making (MADM) method with INLNs and some examples are used to show the procedure and effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with the existing methods, the proposed method is more convenient to express the complex and unclear information. At the same time, it is more scientific and flexible in solving the MADM problems by considering the interrelationships among multi-attributes.