Automatic design of fuzzy rule-based classification systems based on labeled data is considered. It is recognized that both classification performance and interpretability are of major importance and effort is made to keep the resulting rule bases small and comprehensible. An iterative approach for developing fuzzy classifiers is proposed. The initial model is derived from the data and subseque...

Through the emergence of information and communication technologies and customer-oriented approaches in business and industry, for achieving competitive advantages and in order to remain at the top in every business, more exible and responsive supply chain systems are required. The next generation of supply chain systems must be agile, adaptive, cooperative, integrated and exible. Agent-based s...

This paper introduces a new neurofuzzy model construction and parameter estimation algorithm from observed finite data sets, based on a Takagi and Sugeno (T–S) inference mechanism and a new extended Gram–Schmidt orthogonal decomposition algorithm, for the modeling of a priori unknown dynamical systems in the form of a set of fuzzy rules. The first contribution of the paper is the introduction o...

in this study, the roll, yaw and depth fuzzy control of an au- tonomous underwater vehicle (auv) are addressed. yaw and roll angles are regulated only using their errors and rates, but due to the complexity of depth dynamic channel, additional pitch rate quantity is used to improve the depth loop performance. the discussed auv has four aps at the rear of the vehicle as actuators. two rule bases...

Among the computational intelligence techniques employed to solve classification problems, the fuzzy rule-based classification system (FRBCS) is a popular tool capable of building a linguistic model interpretable to users. However, it may face lack of accuracy in some complex applications, by the fact that the inflexibility of the concept of the linguistic variable imposes hard restrictions on ...

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms represent an effective tool to improve the accuracyinterpretability trade-off of fuzzy rule-based classification systems. To this aim, a tuning process and a rule selection process can be combined to obtain a set of solutions with different trade-offs between the accuracy and the compactness of models. Nevertheless, an initial model needs to be defined, i...

Support vector machines (SVMs) proved to be highly efficient computational tools in various classification tasks. However, the knowledge learned by an SVM is encoded in a long list of parameter values, and it is not easy to comprehend what the SVM is actually computing. We show that certain types of SVMs are mathematically equivalent to a specific fuzzy–rule base, the fuzzy all–permutations rul...

In this paper, an Integrated C-Object Tool, namely ICOT, is proposed for knowledge-based programming. A major drawback of current rule-based expert system languages is that they have difficulty in handling composite objects as a unit of inference. An object-oriented model is a powerful alternative to complement the drawback. Each of these alone cannot capture all the semantics of knowledge, par...

Fuzzy memberships can be understood as coverage functions of random sets. This interpretation makes sense in the context of fuzzy rule learning: a random sets-based semantic of the linguistic labels is compatible with the use of fuzzy statistics for obtaining knowledge bases from data. In particular, in this paper we formulate the learning of a fuzzy rule based classifier as a problem of statis...

NeuroFAST is an on-line fuzzy modeling learning algorithm, featuring high function approximation accuracy and fast convergence. It is based on a first-order Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) model, where the consequence part of each fuzzy rule is a linear equation. Structure identification is performed by a fuzzy adaptive resonance theory (ART)-like mechanism, assisted by fuzzy rule splitting and adding...