Perception-based Reasoning: Evaluation Systems

A perception-based interpretation of evaluation systems is proposed in this paper. Thus, a perception-based approach to create intelligent systems is considered. The evaluation systems can be employed e.g. in order to assess student exams, as well as to other applications. Evaluation marks used in these systems are given as perceptions expressed by words. The words play the role of labels of perceptions, and are represented by fuzzy sets. This means that the idea of perception-based systems, introduced by Zadeh, is applied. Various algorithms of overall assessment are suggested in this paper. Overall evaluation is produced as an aggregation of component evaluation marks. Systems of this kind can be obtained using fuzzy neurons, so fuzzy neural networks are also mentioned as a method of perception-based reasoning. The usefulness in artificial intelligence of both fuzzy sets and neural networks, and especially a combination of these, is shown.