The ‘hnique selling point” of fuzzy systems is usually the interpretability of its rule base. However, very often only the U C C U T U C ~ of the rule base is measured and used to compare a fuzzy system to other solutions. We have suggested an index to measurz the interpretability of fuzzy rule bases for classification problems. However, the index can be used to describe the interpretability of...

In this paper we are dealing with the construction of a fuzzy rule based classifier. A three-step method is proposed based on Lukasiewicz logic for the description of the rules and the fuzzy memberships to construct concise and highly comprehensible fuzzy rules. In our method, a genetic algorithm is applied to evolve the structure of the rules and then a gradient based optimization to fine tune...

Article History: Received: 17/03/2015 Accepted: 17/02/2016 Published:26/5/2016 This study optimises manually derived rule-based expert system classification of objects according to changes in their properties over time. One of the key challenges that this study tries to address is how to classify objects that exhibit changes in their behaviour over time, for example how to classify companies’ s...

The growth of the internet has created a vast new arena for information generation. There is huge amount of data available in Information Industry. Databases today can range in size of the terabytes or more bytes of data. To address these issues, researchers turned to a new research area called Data Mining. Data mining is a technology that blends traditional data analysis methods with sophistic...

This study proposed an exhaustive stable/reproducible rule-mining algorithm combined to a classifier to generate both accurate and interpretable models. Our method first extracts rules (i.e., a conjunction of conditions about the values of a small number of input features) with our exhaustive rule-mining algorithm, then constructs a new feature space based on the most relevant rules called ”loc...

Classification is an important field of data mining problems. Given a set of labeled training examples the classification task constructs a classifier. A classifier is a global model which is used to predict the class label for data objects that are unlabeled. Many approaches have been proposed for the classification problem. Among them, rule-induction, associative and instance-centric approach...