This paper explores the topic of fuzzy clustering, feature selection, and membership function optimization. Feature selection plays a crucial role for all fuzzy clustering applications, as the selection of appropriate features determines the quality of the resulting clusters. We will show how fuzzy clustering can be applied to data mining problems by introducing some of the most commonly used c...

Fuzzy Logic Controllers are knowledge-based systems, incorporating human knowledge into their Knowledge Base through Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Membership Functions. The deenition of these Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Membership Functions is generally aaected by subjective decisions, having a great innuence over the performance of the Fuzzy Controller. In some cases, the Membership Functions are deened wit...

First, a process of building of the neural network for events forecasting is presented, that is the selection of networks’ architecture and parameters. Next, the effect of adding data calibrated by nonlinear input function to input data calibrated linearly is described. The nonlinear input function hyperbolic tangent was accepted. Hyperbolic tangent sigmoid transfer function and log sigmoid tra...

<span lang="EN-US">This study implements a recurrent neural network (RNN) by comparing two RNN structures, namely Elman and Jordan using the backpropagation through time (BPTT) programming algorithm in training forecasting process foreign exchange cases. The activation functions used are linear transfer function, tan-sigmoid function (Tansig), log-sigmoid (Logsig), which applied to hidden...

The identification of the proper structure of nonlinear neural networks (NNs) is a difficult problem, since these black-box models are not interpretable. The aim of the paper is to propose a new approach that can be used for the analysis and the reduction of these models. It is shown that NNs with sigmoid transfer function can be transformed into fuzzy systems. Hence, with the use of this trans...

An experiment using the phenomenon of percolation has been conducted to demonstrate the implementation of neural functionality (summing and sigmoid transfer). A simple analog approximation to digital percolation is implemented. The device consists of a piece of amorphous silicon with stochastic bit-stream optical inputs, in which a current percolating from one end to the other defines the neuro...