The aim of this contribution is to point out the importance of interpretability of fuzzy rule-based systems. We try to approach this key property axiomatically, as a starting point, restricting to interpretability of linguistic variables (in Zadeh’s sense). The proposed approach is underlined with an intuitive example. Finally, the benefits of considering interpretability in design and tuning o...

The growth of cities, climate change, biomes degradation, disease and social issues influence the views of life quality and health of populations. The characteristics of health and environment are usually measured with different and disconnected indicators. However, the importance of working with those two aspects in a joined way is every time larger. In this paper it is presented a fuzzy rule-...

We introduce a fuzzy controller which uses a fuzzy rule base diierently to the classical Mamdani approach. We argue that it has several desirable and well-motivated properties which often cannot be obtained by a Mamdani controller. Let X and Y denote the input and the output space, respectively, and let F(:) denote the collection of all fuzzy subsets. The support of a fuzzy set A 2 F(X) is Supp...

nowadays, it has demonstrated that viruses can be transmitted by water and foods. therefore, it causes the research to develop for detecting different viruses in water and foods. among foods, milk can transfer potentially pathogenic viruses. on the other hand, to achieve every method for recovery and extraction of viruses in raw milk it needs to know about impact of milk components on viruses. ...

In this paper we present HTR, a hybrid trainable rule-based system. The key features of the system include: the heterogeneous integration of multiple control regimes, rule induction and reenement mechanisms, easy and concise speciication of knowledge, treatment and support for uncertainty. All these features are obtained thanks to the introduction of a new formalism for rule speciication that e...

    Condition Monitoring,   Oil Analysis, Wear Behavior,   Fuzzy Rule Based System   Maintenance , as a support function, plays an important role in manufacturing companies and operational organizations. In this paper, fuzzy rules used to interpret linguistic variables for determination of priorities. Using this approach, such verbal expressions, which cannot be explicitly analyzed or statistic...

Neurules are a kind of hybrid rules that combine a symbolic (production rules) and a connectionist (adaline unit) representation. One way that the neurules can be produced is from training examples/patterns, extracted from empirical data. However, in certain application fields not all of the training examples are available a priori. A number of them become available over time. In those cases, u...

D eclaration : No portion o f this w ork has been submitted in support o f an application for another degree or qualification in the Dublin City University or any other University or Institute o f Learning. Acknowledgements T o my parents who provided me with m ore support and encouragem ent than they will ever know , and to Renaat whose advice and guidance was invaluable Contents 1 Introductio...