Learning of Class Membership Values by Ellipsoidal Decision Regions

A novel method of learning complex fuzzy decision regions in the n-dimensional feature space is proposed. Through the fuzzy decision regions, a given pattern's class membership value of every class is determined instead of the conventional crisp class the pattern belongs to. The n-dimensional fuzzy decision region is approximated by union of hyperellipsoids. By explicitly parameterizing these hyperellipsoids, the decision regions are determined by estimating the parameters of each hyperellipsoid. Genetic Algorithm is applied to estimate the parameters of each region component. With the global optimization ability of GA, the learned decision region can be arbitrarily complex. Keywords-- ellipsoid, genetic algorithm, decision regions, classification

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IJIT
• Authors: Leehter Yao, Chin-chin Lin
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Complex Fuzzy Decision, Decision Regions, Fuzzy Decision Region, IJIT 2004