This paper presents the fuzzy expert system for intelligent support of decision making about cause of stone construction crack of building. The system is based on some linguistic expert expressions formalised by 9 fuzzy knowledge bases. Tuning of fuzzy rules by genetic algorithms provided a good concordance between real causes of cracks and results of decision making by the system.

Among the many desirable properties of fuzzy inference systems not all of them are known to co-exist. For instance, a system based on a monotone fuzzy rule base need not be monotonic and interpolative simultaneously. Recently, Štěpnička and De Baets have investigated and shown the co-existence of the above two properties in the case of a fuzzy relational inference systems and the single-input-s...

In this paper, we propose a neuro-fuzzy modeling framework to discover fuzzy rules and its application to predict chemical properties of ashes produced by thermo-electric generators. The framework is defined by several sequential steps in order to obtain a good predictive accuracy and the readability of the discovered fuzzy rules. First, a feature selection procedure is applied to the available...

Fuzzy modeling has become very popular because of its main feature being the ability to assign meaningful linguistic labels to the fuzzy sets in the rule base. This paper examines Sugeno and Yasukawa’s qualitative modeling approach, and addresses one of the remarks in the original paper. We propose a cluster search algorithm that can be used to provide a better projection of the output space to...

Real estate appraisal requires expert knowledge and should be performed by licensed professionals. Prior to the evaluation the appraiser must conduct a thorough study of the appraised property i.e. a land parcel and/or a building. Despite the fact that he sometimes uses the expertise of the surveyor, the builder, the economist or the mortgage lender, his estimations are usually subjective and a...

Two conflicting goals are often involved in the design of fuzzy rule-based systems: Accuracy maximization and interpretability maximization. A number of approaches have been proposed for finding a fuzzy rule-based system with a good accuracy-interpretability tradeoff. Formulation of the accuracy maximization is usually straightforward in each application area of fuzzy rule-based systems such as...

Fuzzy association rule mining discovers patterns in transactions, such as shopping baskets in a supermarket, or Web page accesses by a visitor to a Web site. Temporal patterns can be present in fuzzy association rules because the underlying process generating the data can be dynamic. However, existing solutions may not discover all interesting patterns because of a previously unrecognised probl...

Backfitting of fuzzy rules is an Iterative Rule Learning technique for obtaining the knowledge base of a fuzzy rule-based system in regression problems. It consists in fitting one fuzzy rule to the data, and replacing the whole training set by the residual of the approximation. The obtained rule is added to the knowledge base, and the process is repeated until the residual is zero, or near zero...

In this study, trajectory control of the Variable Loaded Servo (VLS) system is performed by using a Fuzzy Logic based Iterative Learning Control (ILC) method. In the study, a Iterative Learning PID (IL-PID) Controller is used as the iterative learning control structure. Also, a fuzzy adjustment mechanism has been added to the control system for specify the initial parameter of the IL-PID contro...

The stock market has always been an attractive area for researchers since no method has been found yet to predict the stock price behavior precisely. Due to its high rate of uncertainty and volatility, it carries a higher risk than any other investment area, thus the stock price behavior is difficult to simulation. This paper presents a “data mining-based evolutionary fuzzy expert system” (DEFE...