Neural nets were originally introduced as highly simplified systems of the neural system. Today they are widely used in technology and studied theoretically by scientists from several disciplines. (See e.g. [N]). However they remain little understood. (...)
Fuzzy logic controller performance depends on the fuzzy control rule set. This set can be obtained either by an expert or from a learning algorithm through a set of examples. Recently, we have developed SLAVE an inductive learning algorithm capable of identifying fuzzy systems. The refinement of the rules proposed by SLAVE (or by an expert) can be very important in order to improve the accuracy of the model and in order to simplify the description of the system. The refinement algorithm is based...
Traditional data mining methods based on rough set theory focus on extracting models which are good at classifying unseen obj-ects. If one wants to uncover new knowledge from the data, the model must have a high descriptive quality-it must describe the data set in a clear and concise manner, without sacrificing classification performance. Rough modeling, introduced by Kowalczyk (1998), is an approach which aims at providing models with good predictive emphand descriptive qualities, in addition to...
The curse of dimensionality is a damning factor for numerous potentially powerful machine learning techniques. Widely approved and otherwise elegant methodologies used for a number of different tasks ranging from classification to function approximation exhibit relatively high computational complexity with respect to dimensionality. This limits severely the applicability of such techniques to real world problems. Rough set theory is a formal methodology that can be employed to reduce the dimensionality...