Similarity measures in fuzzy rule base simplification
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics)
- Vol. 28 (3) , 376-386
- https://doi.org/10.1109/3477.678632
Abstract
In fuzzy rule-based models acquired from numerical data, redundancy may be present in the form of similar fuzzy sets that represent compatible concepts. This results in an unnecessarily complex and less transparent linguistic description of the system. By using a measure of similarity, a rule base simplification method is proposed that reduces the number of fuzzy sets in the model. Similar fuzzy sets are merged to create a common fuzzy set to replace them in the rule base. If the redundancy in the model is high, merging similar fuzzy sets might result in equal rules that also can be merged, thereby reducing the number of rules as well. The simplified rule base is computationally more efficient and linguistically more tractable. The approach has been successfully applied to fuzzy models of real world systems.Keywords
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