Title
Self-developing fuzzy expert system: a novel learning approach, fitting for manufacturing domain
Abstract
The foremost challenge faced by expert systems, for their applicability to real world problems, is their inherent deficiency of dynamism. For an expert system to be more pragmatic and applicable, the whole structure of an expert system--including rule-base, fuzzy sets, and even user-interface--needs to be upgraded continuously. This continuous up gradation demands full-time, repetitive, and cumbersome involvement of knowledge engineers. Machine learning is an answer to this problem, but unfortunately, the solutions that have been provided are limited in scope. For example, most of the researchers put forward techniques of either generating just rules from data, or self-expanding and self-correcting knowledge-base only. The innovative approach presented in this paper is broader in scope. It enhances the efficacy and viability of expert systems to be more capable of coping with dynamic and ever-changing industrial environments. The objective is facilitated by rendering, concurrently, the self-learning, self-correcting, and self-expanding abilities to the expert system, without requiring knowledge engineering skills of the developers. This means that the user needs just to feed data in form of the values of input/output variables and the complete development of expert system is done automatically. The superiority of the proposed expert system, regarding its continuous self-development, has been explained with the help of three examples related to prediction and optimization of milling and welding processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s10845-009-0252-3
J. Intelligent Manufacturing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Self-development,Optimization,Fuzzy reasoning,Prediction,Milling
Dynamism,Subject-matter expert,Expert system,Personal development,Fuzzy set,Knowledge engineering,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Rendering (computer graphics),Machine learning,Legal expert system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
6
0956-5515
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.55
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Asif Iqbal19223.76
N. U. Dar230.89
Ning He3355.13
Muhammad M. Hammouda430.55
Liang Li5285.33