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Fuzzy associative matrix
About: Fuzzy associative matrix is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8027 publications have been published within this topic receiving 194790 citations.
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TL;DR: A general query language, FRIL, which uses fuzzy base relations and rewrite rules is described and incorporates an automated fuzzy inference mechanism and should find applications in many areas of knowledge engineering such as expert systems, linguistic controllers, etc.
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TL;DR: Fuzzy rule representations can be implication- based or conjunction-based; it is shown that only implication-based models may lead to coherence problems and some conditions that a set of parallel rules has to satisfy in order to avoid inconsistency problems.
Abstract: Checking the coherence of a set of rules is an important step in knowledge base validation. Coherence is also needed in the field of fuzzy systems. Indeed, rules are often used regardless of their semantics, and it sometimes leads to sets of rules that make no sense. Avoiding redundancy is also of interest in real-time systems for which the inference engine is time consuming. A knowledge base is potentially inconsistent or incoherent if there exists a piece of input data that respects integrity constraints and that leads to logical inconsistency when added to the knowledge base. We more particularly consider knowledge bases composed of parallel fuzzy rules. Then, coherence means that the projection on the input variables of the conjunctive combination of the possibility distributions representing the fuzzy rules leaves these variables completely unrestricted (i.e., any value for these variables is possible) or, at least, not more restrictive than integrity constraints. Fuzzy rule representations can be implication-based or conjunction-based; we show that only implication-based models may lead to coherence problems. However, unlike conjunction-based models, they allow to design coherence checking processes. Some conditions that a set of parallel rules has to satisfy in order to avoid inconsistency problems are given for certainty or gradual rules. The problem of redundancy, which is also of interest for fuzzy knowledge bases validation, is addressed for these two kinds of rules.
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01 Aug 1995
TL;DR: The authors use the Dempster-Shafer framework to provide a machinery for including randomness in the fuzzy systems modeling process and show how to represent additive noise in this combined framework.
Abstract: Discusses some basic ideas from the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. The authors describe the concept of fuzzy systems modeling used in fuzzy logic control. The authors use the Dempster-Shafer framework to provide a machinery for including randomness in the fuzzy systems modeling process. The authors show how to represent additive noise in this combined framework. >
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01 Sep 1999TL;DR: It is proved that the minimal configuration of the TS fuzzy systems can be reduced and becomes smaller than that of the Mamdani fuzzy systems if nontrapezoidal or nontriangular input fuzzy sets are used.
Abstract: Both Takagi-Sugeno (TS) and Mamdani fuzzy systems are known to be universal approximators. We investigate whether one type of fuzzy approximators is more economical than the other. The TS fuzzy systems are the typical two-input single-output TS fuzzy systems. We first establish necessary conditions on minimal system configuration of the TS fuzzy systems as function approximators. We show that the number of the input fuzzy sets and fuzzy rules needed by the TS fuzzy systems depend on the number and locations of the extrema of the function to be approximated. The resulting conditions reveal the strength of the TS fuzzy approximators. The drawback, though, is that a large number of fuzzy rules must be employed to approximate periodic or highly oscillatory functions. We then compare these necessary conditions with the ones that we established for the general Mamdani fuzzy systems in our previous papers. Results of the comparison unveil that the minimal system configurations of the TS and Mamdani fuzzy systems are comparable. Finally, we prove that the minimal configuration of the TS fuzzy systems can be reduced and becomes smaller than that of the Mamdani fuzzy systems if nontrapezoidal or nontriangular input fuzzy sets are used. We believe that all the results in present paper hold for the TS fuzzy systems with more than two input variables but the proof seems to be mathematically difficult. Our new findings are valuable in designing more compact fuzzy systems, especially fuzzy controllers and models which are two most popular and successful applications of the fuzzy approximators.
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TL;DR: The sensitivity of the output to noisy input distributions and the ability of the networks to internalize multiple conjunctive clause and disjunctive clause rules are demonstrated.
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