Fuzzy aggregation of modular neural networks with ordered weighted averaging operators

This paper presents an efficient fuzzy neural system which consists of modular neural networks combined by the fuzzy integral with ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators. The ability of the fuzzy integral to combine the results of multiple sources of information has been established in seL'eral preL'ious works. The key point of this paper is to formalize modular neural networks as information sources, and show the feasibility of the fuzzy integral extended by OWA operators in the problem of combining neural outputs, especially in the case that the networks differ substantially from each other in accuracy. The experimental results with the recognition problem for on-line handwritten characters show that the performance of indiL, idual networks is improced significantly.