Hierarchical genetic fuzzy systems: Accuracy, interpretability and design autonomy (Q4437869)

This paper addresses hierarchical evolutionary rule-based fuzzy modeling, focusing on accuracy, interpretability and design autonomy issues. Special attention is paid to interpretability in terms of visibility, simplicity, compactness, and consistency. As a consequence, fuzzy modeling is viewed as a decision-making problem where accuracy, interpretability and autonomy are goals. The approach assumes that goals can be handled via corresponding single-objective \(\varepsilon\)-constrained decision making problems whose solution is produced by a hierarchical evolutionary process based on genetic algorithms, namely, a hierarchical genetic fuzzy system. In addition to performance improvement and interpretability constraints fulfillment, the hierarchical approach allows automatic tuning of a number of critical parameters and increases autonomy by minimizing user intervention. The fitting, generalization, and interpretation characteristics of the resulting fuzzy models are discussed using function approximation and classification problems. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1015.00012].