Fuzzy cellular automata (FCA) are continuous cellular automata where the local rule is defined as the “fuzzification” of the local rule of a corresponding Boolean cellular automaton in disjunctive normal form. In this paper we are interested in the relationship between Boolean and fuzzy models and we analytically show, for the first time, the existence of a strong connection between them by foc...

Fuzzy cellular automata (FCA) are continuous cellular automata where the local rule is defined as the “fuzzification" of the local rule of a corresponding Boolean cellular automaton in disjunctive normal form. In this paper, we are interested in the relationship between Boolean and fuzzy models and, for the first time, we analytically show the existence of a strong connection between them by fo...

This paper reviews neuro-fuzzy systems, which combine methods from neural network theory with fuzzy systems. Such combinations have been considered for several years already. However, the term neuro-fuzzy still lacks proper deenition, and still has the avour of a buzzword to it. Surprisingly few neuro-fuzzy approaches do actually employ neural networks, even though they are very often depicted ...

Decision Tree Induction (DTI), one of the Data Mining classification methods, is used in this research for predictive problem solving in analyzing patient medical track records. In this paper, we extend the concept of DTI dealing with meaningful fuzzy labels in order to express human knowledge for mining fuzzy association rules. Meaningful fuzzy labels (using fuzzy sets) can be defined for each...

In many applications spatial data are considered, yet this data quite often are prone to uncertainty and imprecision. For this purpose, fuzzy regions have been developed. Our initial model, a fuzzy set over a two dimensional domain, allowed for both fuzzy regions and fuzzy points to be modelled. The model still had some shortcomings: all points where treated independently, and it was not possib...

In order to efficiently manage and use knowledge, ontology technologies are widely applied to various kinds of domain knowledge. This paper proposes a Chinese term clustering mechanism for generating semantic concepts of a news ontology. We utilize the parallel fuzzy inference mechanism to infer the conceptual resonance strength of a Chinese term pair. There are four input fuzzy variables, cons...

In fuzzy domain, a variable (vague linguistic term) often depends not only on a single variable but on more then one variables. In such a situation multiple regression analysis is more appropriate than simple regression analysis involving one independent variable. This paper introduces fuzzy multiple regression equations of fuzzy sets those are treated as a variable with certain values assigned...

The concept of similarity plays a fundamental role in case-based reasoning. However, the meaning of “similarity” can vary in situations and is largely domain dependent. This paper proposes a novel similarity model consisting of linguistic fuzzy rules as the knowledge container. We believe that fuzzy rules representation offers a more flexible means to express the knowledge and criteria for simi...

As an extension of the traditional modal logic, the fuzzy first-order modal logic is discussed in this paper. A description of fuzzy first-order modal logic based on constant domain semantics is given, and a formal system of fuzzy reasoning based on the semantic information of models of first-order modal logic is established. It is also introduced in this paper the notion of the satisfiability ...