Fuzzy rule derivation is often difficult and time-consuming, and requires expert knowledge. This creates a common bottleneck in fuzzy system design. In order to solve this problem, many fuzzy systems that automatically generate fuzzy rules from numerical data have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy neural network based on mutual subsethood (MSBFNN) and its fuzzy rule identificatio...

Data mining is sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships. Association rule mining is a well established method of data mining that identifies significant correlations between items in transactional data. Measures like support count, comprehensibility and interestingness, used for evaluating a rule can be thought of as different objectives of association rule mining p...

When designing rule-based models and classifiers, some precision is sacrificed to obtain linguistic interpretability. Understandable models are not expected to outperform black boxes, but usually fuzzy learning algorithms are statistically validated by contrasting them with black-box models. Unless performance of both approaches is equivalent, it is difficult to judge whether the fuzzy one is d...

In multi-objective evolutionary fuzzy systems, the process of tuning the membership functions plays an important role towards optimizing the systems accuracy. Although, the shape and position of the membership functions in the partition should not change too much with relation to the original partition, so that it does not lose its integrity. This paper presents and discusses multi-objective ev...

The main objective of this research work is to construct a Fuzzy Temporal Rule Based Classifier that uses fuzzy rough set and temporal logic in order to mine temporal patterns in medical databases. The lower approximation concepts and fuzzy decision table with the fuzzy features are used to obtain fuzzy decision classes for building the classifier. The goals are pre-processing for feature selec...

This paper proposes a rule base compression method for fuzzy systems. The method is based on filtration of rules with identical linguistic values for the output that are known as non-monotonic rules. The filtration removes the redundant computations in the fuzzy inference with respect to the crisp values of the inputs to the fuzzy system. The method identifies the redundant rules after fuzzific...

This paper discusses fuzzy reasoning for approximately realizing nonlinear functions by a small number of fuzzy if-then rules with different specificity levels. Our fuzzy rule base is a mixture of general and specific rules, which overlap with each other in the input space. General rules work as default rules in our fuzzy rule base. First we briefly describe existing approaches to the handling ...

Fuzzy set theory allows for the inclusion of vague human assessments in computing problems. Also, it provides an effective means for conflict resolution of multiple criteria and better assessment of options. Fuzzy rule interpolation offers a useful means for enhancing the robustness of fuzzy models by making inference possible in sparse rule-based systems. However, in real-world applications of...

Potato image segmentation is an important part of image-based potato defect detection. This paper presents a robust potato color image segmentation through a combination of a fuzzy rule based system, an image thresholding based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization and morphological operators. The proposed potato color image segmentation is robust against variation of background, distance and ...

Inference mechanisms and interpretations of fuzzy rule bases are studied together from the point of view of systems of fuzzy relation equations. A proper use of an inference mechanism connected to a fuzzy relation interpreting a fuzzy rule base is certified by keeping the fundamental interpolation condition. The paper aims at new solutions of systems of fuzzy relation equations which are motiva...