This paper presents an explanation of a fuzzy model considering the correlation among components of input data. Generally, fuzzy models have a capability of dividing an input space into several subspaces compared to a linear model. But hitherto suggested fuzzy modeling algorithms have not taken into consideration the correlation among components of sample data and have addressed them independen...

Clustering is a procedure in which objects are distiguished or classified in accordance with their similarity. There is no teacher to provide guidance, hence it is also called unsupervised classification. According to the theory of classification, clustering methods may be treated as classification methods that utilize minimal information about classified objects (their features). A data set pa...

Systems which use a fuzzy rule base and an inference mechanisms are quite frequently used in many applications. Fuzzy rules and inference mechanisms can be described by a system of fuzzy relation equations. A solution to a given system of fuzzy relation equations can serve us a proper model of fuzzy rules (fuzzy model for short). But only two particular solutions, let us call them disjunctive a...

Data-driven fuzzy modeling has been used in a wide variety of applications. However, in fuzzy rule-based models acquired from numerical data, redundancy often exists in the form of redundant rules or similar fuzzy sets. This results in unnecessary structural complexity and decreases the interpretability of the system. In this paper, a rule-base self-extraction and simpli&cation method is propos...

Consensus clustering, i.e. the task of combining the outcomes of several clustering systems into a single partition, has lately attracted the attention of researchers in the unsupervised classification field, as it allows the creation of clustering committees that can be applied with multiple interesting purposes, such as knowledge reuse or distributed clustering. However, little attention has ...

Two Mamdani type fuzzy models (three inputs–one output and two inputs–one output) were developed to predict the permeability of compounds through human skin. The models were derived from multiple data sources including laboratory data, published data bases, published statistical models, and expert opinion. The inputs to the model include information about the compound (molecular weight and octo...

An automatic neuro-fuzzy rule generation scheme is proposed for backing up navigation of carlike mobile robots. The proposed method is based on the Conditional Fuzzy C-Means (CFCM) and Fuzzy Equalization (FE) methods. The CFCM is adopted to render clusters, which can represent the homogeneous properties of the given input and output fuzzy data, and also the FE method is used to systematically c...

An efficient genetic reinforcement learning algorithm for designing fuzzy controllers is proposed in this paper. The genetic algorithm (GA) adopted in this paper is based upon symbiotic evolution which, when applied to fuzzy controller design, complements the local mapping property of a fuzzy rule. Using this Symbiotic-Evolution-based Fuzzy Controller (SEFC) design method, the number of control...

This paper proposes a region based approach for image retrieval. We develop an algorithm to segment an image into fuzzy regions based on coefficients of multiscale wavelet packet transform. The wavelet based features are clustered using fuzzy C-means algorithm. The final cluster centroids which are the representative points, signify the color and texture properties of the preassigned number of ...

Clustering for the analysis of the genes organizes the patterns into groups by the similarity of the dataset and has been used for identifying the functions of the genes in the cluster and analyzing the functions of unknown genes. Since the genes usually belong to multiple functional families, fuzzy clustering methods are more appropriate than the conventional hard clustering methods which assi...