Title
Applying Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Rule Based Classifiers Through A Cluster-Based Class Representation
Abstract
Fuzzy Rule-Based Classification Systems (FRBCSs) have the potential to provide so-called interpretable classifiers, i.e. classifiers which can be introspective, understood, validated and augmented by human experts by relying on fuzzy-set based rules. This paper builds on prior work for interval type-2 fuzzy set based FRBCs where the fuzzy sets and rules of the classifier are generated using an initial clustering stage. By introducing Subtractive Clustering in order to identify multiple cluster prototypes, the proposed approach has the potential to deliver improved classification performance while maintaining good interpretability, i.e. without resulting in an excessive number of rules. The paper provides a detailed overview of the proposed FRBC framework, followed by a series of exploratory experiments on both linearly and non-linearly separable datasets, comparing results to existing rule-based and SVM approaches. Overall, initial results indicate that the approach enables comparable classification performance to non rule-based classifiers such as SVM, while often achieving this with a very small number of rules.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/SSCI.2015.253
2015 IEEE SYMPOSIUM SERIES ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (IEEE SSCI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
data mining,fuzzy sets,prototypes,fuzzy logic,uncertainty
Neuro-fuzzy,Pattern recognition,Defuzzification,Fuzzy classification,Fuzzy set operations,Fuzzy logic,Fuzzy set,Artificial intelligence,Fuzzy number,Mathematics,Machine learning,Fuzzy rule
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1607.06186
0
0.34
References 
Authors
18
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
julio f navarro100.34
cynthia wagner200.34
Uwe Aickelin31679153.63