Fuzzy logic has proven to be a promising method for developing simple, robust controllers for uncertain or nonlinear systems. One problem with fuzzy controllers, however, is that they are difficult to apply to higher-order systems. The reason for this is that the number of rules required for the rule base increases geometrically with the number of states. For example, if a system was fourth-ord...

Fuzzy rule-based systems (FRBS) use the principle of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic to describe vague and imprecise statements and provide a facility to express the behaviours of the system with a human-understandable language. Fuzzy information, once defined by a fuzzy system, is fixed regardless of the circumstances and therefore makes it very difficult to capture the effect of context on the mea...

The primary objective of this paper is to introduce Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems (FRBSs) as a relatively new technology into airport transportation research, with a special emphasis on ground movement operations. Hence, a Mamdani FRBS with the capability to learn from data has been adopted for taxi time estimations at Zurich Airport (ZRH). Linear regression is currently the dominating technique for...

Fuzzy model-based adaptive control, unlike traditional fuzzy control, extracts expert knowledge from data by using model identification techniques. In this paper, we propose an analysis of the contradiction in this knowledge as an additional search criterion during the model identification process. In order to do so, we first define a measure of contradiction between fuzzy rules. Then, we assum...

Data-based identification of fuzzy rule-based classifiers for high-dimensional problems is addressed. A crisp binary decision tree approach is proposed for the selection of the relevant features and effective initial partitioning of the input domain. The decision tree is then transformed into a fuzzy rule-based classifier. Fuzzy classifiers have more flexible decision boundaries than decision t...

the concept of intelligently controlling the search process of gravitational search algorithm (gsa) is introduced to develop a novel data mining technique. the proposed method is called fuzzy gsa miner (fgsa-miner). at first a fuzzy controller is designed for adaptively controlling the gravitational coefficient and the number of effective objects, as two important parameters which play major ro...

For the last decade, fuzzy controllers have been applied with great success to a variety of domains. Nevertheless the underlying theoretical framework still remains unsatisfactory. One of the key questions still open is concerned with approximate reasoning. How should we determine the eeect of applying the fuzzy rule IF x is ~ A THEN y is ~ B] to ~ A 0 with ~ A 0 , ~ A, and ~ B being fuzzy sets...

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...