A Framework for Bridging the Gap Between Symbolic and Non-Symbolic AI
Gehan Abouelseoud, Amin Shoukry · InTech eBooks · 2012
FRS (Fuzzy Rule Systems) and ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks) have gained much popularity due to their capabilities in modeling human knowledge and in learning from data, respectively. Fuzzy systems have the advantage of allowing users to incorporate available experts' knowledge directly in the fuzzy model [2]. Thus, decisions made by fuzzy systems are transparent to the user (i.e. the reasons behind the decisions made are clearly understood by tracing the decision and finding out which rules fired and contributed to it). However, there are many parameters whose values are arbitrary. These values have to be guessed by a fuzzy system designer, yet they largely influence the system behavior. Thus, a fuzzy system is as good as its programmer.