In a world of almost permanent and rapidly increasing electronic data
availability, techniques of filtering, compressing, and interpreting
this data to transform it into valuable and easily comprehensible
information is of utmost importance. One key topic in this area is the
capability to deduce future system behavior from a given data input.
This book brings together for the first time the complete theory of
data-based neurofuzzy modelling and the linguistic attributes of fuzzy
logic in a single cohesive mathematical framework. After introducing the
basic theory of data-based modelling, new concepts including extended
additive and multiplicative submodels are developed and their extensions
to state estimation and data fusion are derived. All these algorithms
are illustrated with benchmark and real-life examples to demonstrate
their efficiency.
Chris Harris and his group have carried out pioneering work which has
tied together the fields of neural networks and linguistic rule-based
algortihms. This book is aimed at researchers and scientists in time
series modeling, empirical data modeling, knowledge discovery, data
mining, and data fusion.