Humberto Bustince

22.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
392 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Humberto Bustince is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Humberto Bustince has authored 392 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 232 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 194 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 144 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Humberto Bustince's work include Multi-Criteria Decision Making (221 papers), Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems (139 papers) and Fuzzy Systems and Optimization (128 papers). Humberto Bustince is often cited by papers focused on Multi-Criteria Decision Making (221 papers), Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems (139 papers) and Fuzzy Systems and Optimization (128 papers). Humberto Bustince collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Slovakia and Brazil. Humberto Bustince's co-authors include Edurne Barrenechea, P. Burillo, Francisco Herrera, Mikel Galar, Alberto Fernández, Javier Fernández, Miguel Pagola, Radko Mesiar, Benjamín Bedregal and José Sanz and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Humberto Bustince

373 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

A Review on Ensembles for... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2011 1996 1996 2011 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Review on Ensembles for the Class Imbalance Problem: Bagging-, Boosting-, and Hybrid-Based Approaches
    2011 2.0k citations Mikel Galar, Alberto Fernández et al. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews) profile →
  2. Vague sets are intuitionistic fuzzy sets
    1996 683 citations Humberto Bustince et al. Fuzzy Sets and Systems profile →
  3. Entropy on intuitionistic fuzzy sets and on interval-valued fuzzy sets
    1996 604 citations Humberto Bustince et al. Fuzzy Sets and Systems profile →
  4. An overview of ensemble methods for binary classifiers in multi-class problems: Experimental study on one-vs-one and one-vs-all schemes
    2011 573 citations Mikel Galar, Alberto Fernández et al. Pattern Recognition profile →
  5. A Historical Account of Types of Fuzzy Sets and Their Relationships
    2015 363 citations Humberto Bustince, Edurne Barrenechea et al. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Humberto Bustince Spain 67 9.3k 7.6k 5.2k 4.3k 2.1k 392 16.3k
Janusz Kacprzyk Poland 51 7.6k 0.8× 6.4k 0.8× 3.3k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 2.3k 1.1× 464 14.5k
Didier Dubois France 74 10.3k 1.1× 9.2k 1.2× 6.6k 1.3× 5.8k 1.4× 3.0k 1.4× 311 20.7k
George J. Klir United States 49 5.7k 0.6× 5.6k 0.7× 2.8k 0.5× 2.6k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 191 13.4k
Henri Prade France 60 8.2k 0.9× 7.7k 1.0× 5.6k 1.1× 4.8k 1.1× 2.5k 1.2× 245 16.6k
Hisao Ishibuchi Japan 69 3.1k 0.3× 13.3k 1.8× 8.1k 1.6× 1.8k 0.4× 2.3k 1.1× 610 19.8k
Miin‐Shen Yang Taiwan 46 3.2k 0.3× 4.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.2× 1.8k 0.4× 1.3k 0.6× 197 8.9k
Oscar Castillo Mexico 73 2.5k 0.3× 10.8k 1.4× 1.6k 0.3× 2.6k 0.6× 4.7k 2.3× 671 17.5k
Radko Mesiar Slovakia 58 11.2k 1.2× 4.2k 0.6× 6.5k 1.3× 5.6k 1.3× 2.3k 1.1× 594 15.8k
Michio Sugeno Japan 38 4.3k 0.5× 14.3k 1.9× 2.7k 0.5× 3.6k 0.8× 12.8k 6.1× 149 28.6k
Jerry M. Mendel United States 80 8.0k 0.9× 22.4k 2.9× 4.1k 0.8× 7.3k 1.7× 8.9k 4.3× 441 35.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bedregal, Benjamín, et al.. (2024). Reduction of complexity using generators of pseudo-overlap and pseudo-grouping functions. Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 490. 109025–109025. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yiding, et al.. (2024). Representation of quasi-overlap functions for normal convex fuzzy truth values based on generalized extended overlap functions. Information Sciences. 694. 121710–121710. 1 indexed citations
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Dimuro, Graçaliz Pereira, et al.. (2024). Grouping Indices: Definition, Properties and Construction Methods. Academica-e (Universidad Pública de Navarra). 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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García‐Zamora, Diego, Regivan Santiago, Antonio Francisco Roldán López de Hierro, et al.. (2024). Admissible OWA operators for fuzzy numbers. Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 480. 108863–108863. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Mei, Xiaohong Zhang, Humberto Bustince, & Javier Fernández. (2023). Construction methods of fuzzy implications on bounded posets. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 164. 109064–109064. 1 indexed citations
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García‐Zamora, Diego, et al.. (2023). Some Construction Methods for Pseudo-Overlaps and Pseudo-Groupings and Their Application in Group Decision Making. Axioms. 12(6). 589–589. 1 indexed citations
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Díaz, Susana, Emilio Torres-Manzanera, Radko Mesiar, et al.. (2023). A new family of aggregation functions for intervals. Computational and Applied Mathematics. 43(1). 1 indexed citations
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Vidaurre, Carmen, Javier Fernández, Marisol Gómez, et al.. (2023). Supervised penalty-based aggregation applied to motor-imagery based brain-computer-interface. Pattern Recognition. 145. 109924–109924. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaohong, et al.. (2022). Pseudo Overlap Functions, Fuzzy Implications and Pseudo Grouping Functions with Applications. Axioms. 11(11). 593–593. 25 indexed citations
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Lucca, Giancarlo, et al.. (2021). CC-separation Measure Applied in Business Group Decision Making. Academica-e (Universidad Pública de Navarra). 452–462. 9 indexed citations
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Bustince, Humberto, et al.. (2020). Ordered directional monotonicity in the construction of edge detectors. Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 421. 111–132. 5 indexed citations
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Pȩkala, Barbara, Urszula Bentkowska, Mikel Sesma‐Sara, et al.. (2020). Interval Subsethood Measures with Respect to Uncertainty for the Interval-Valued Fuzzy Setting. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. 13(1). 167–167. 13 indexed citations
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Elkano, Mikel, José Sanz, Edurne Barrenechea, Humberto Bustince, & Mikel Galar. (2019). CFM-BD: A Distributed Rule Induction Algorithm for Building Compact Fuzzy Models in Big Data Classification Problems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 28(1). 163–177. 34 indexed citations
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Paternain, Daniel, et al.. (2018). The Interval-Valued Choquet Integral Based on Admissible Permutations. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 27(8). 1638–1647. 21 indexed citations
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Sanz, José, et al.. (2016). A decision tree based approach with sampling techniques to predict the survival status of poly-trauma patients. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. 10(1). 440–440. 5 indexed citations
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Galar, Mikel, Alberto Fernández, Edurne Barrenechea, Humberto Bustince, & Francisco Herrera. (2016). NMC: nearest matrix classification – A new combination model for pruning One-vs-One ensembles by transforming the aggregation problem. Information Fusion. 36. 26–51. 16 indexed citations
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López-Molina, Carlos, et al.. (2013). A generalization of the Perona-Malik anisotropic diffusion method using restricted dissimilarity functions. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. 6(1). 14–14. 5 indexed citations
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Bustince, Humberto, et al.. (2013). Aggregation Functions in Theory and in Practise: Proceedings of the 7th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators at the Public University ... in Intelligent Systems and Computing). Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Galar, Mikel, Alberto Fernández, Edurne Barrenechea, Humberto Bustince, & Francisco Herrera. (2011). A Review on Ensembles for the Class Imbalance Problem: Bagging-, Boosting-, and Hybrid-Based Approaches. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews). 42(4). 463–484. 2006 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bustince, Humberto, Francisco Herrera, & Javier Montero. (2007). Fuzzy Sets and Their Extensions: Representation, Aggregation and Models Intelligent Systems from Decision Making to Data Mining, Web Intelligence and Computer Vision. Springer eBooks. 54 indexed citations

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