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In this paper, we give a general overview of fuzzy research according to the results found in the ISI Web of Knowledge. We present the most cited articles in fuzzy research, the top authors, the top journals, the evolution by years and the top countries. We also provide a longer list of journals in order to be informative to the scientific community, especially for the young researchers. Note that the results given in this paper are only a general orientation because the rankings can be developed in different ways depending on the variables that we want to take into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unlike occidental flutes, Arabian flutes have gained only limited attention in literature over the past years. Moreover, the least tone-to-tone distance in Arabian music is only half of that of occidental music and therefore the analysis and features extraction process of Arabian music is more challenging. This paper investigates the tone-to-tone features of two traditional Arabian flutes; Al-Nay and Shabbaba. These two kinds of flute gain wide popularity in the Middle Eastern and North African countries. A previously reported analysis and features extraction package is adapted and used for query-by --playing melody retrieval. Experimental tone-to-tone investigations based on the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) are presented for both flutes. The obtained results showed that the analysis approach is robust and successfully performed the task of query-by--playing melody retrieval. Comparison results for Al-Nay and Shabbaba were obtained and evaluated using the Arabian musical Scale "Bayat", as a reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]