A granular neural network: Performance analysis and application to re-granulation

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1149-1167

  Dick, Scott ^a   Tappenden, Andrew ^a   Badke, Curtis ^a   Olarewaju, Olufemi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Granular computing; Linguistic hedges; Linguistic variables; Neural networks; Neuro fuzzy systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS; BACKPROPAGATION LEARNING ALGORITHM; INFORMATION GRANULATION; LEARNING ARCHITECTURES; LINGUISTIC HEDGES; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; NEUROFUZZY SYSTEM; PERCEPTRON ARCHITECTURE;

BENCHMARKING; FUZZY LOGIC; GRANULAR COMPUTING; GRANULATION; LINGUISTICS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84879603249     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2013.01.012     Document Type: Article

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