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Slicing Strategies for the Generalised Type-2 Mamdani Fuzzy Inferencing System

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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2016)

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As a three-dimensional object, there are a number of ways of slicing a generalised type-2 fuzzy set. In the context of the Mamdani Fuzzy Inferencing System, this paper concerns three accepted slicing strategies, the vertical slice, the wavy slice, and the horizontal slice or \(\alpha \)-plane. Two ways of defining the generalised type-2 fuzzy set, vertical slices and wavy slices, are presented. Fuzzification and inferencing is presented in terms of vertical slices. After that, the application of all three slicing strategies to defuzzification is described, and their strengths and weaknesses assessed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The alternative is the Takagi-Sugeno-Kang FIS for which the output membership functions are either linear or constant; defuzzification is superfluous as the outputs may be aggregated via a simple weighted sum.

  2. 2.

    The optimised inferencing algorithms described in [11] employ vertical slices.

  3. 3.

    Discretisation in itself brings an unavoidable element of approximation. However the exhaustive method does not subsequently introduce further inaccuracies.

  4. 4.

    Independently of Liu, and at about the same time, Wagner and Hagras introduced the notion of zSlices [27], a concept very similar to that of \(\alpha \)-planes.

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Greenfield, S., Chiclana, F. (2016). Slicing Strategies for the Generalised Type-2 Mamdani Fuzzy Inferencing System. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L., Zurada, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9692. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39378-0_18

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