Beyond Neuro-Fuzzy: Perspectives And Directions

The interest in neuro--fuzzy systems has grown tremendously over the last few years. First approaches concentrated mainly on neuro--fuzzy controllers, whereas newer approaches can also be found in the domain of data analysis. After successful applications in Japan neuro--fuzzy concepts also find their way into the European industries, though mainly simple models, like FAMs, still prevail. This paper shortly reviews some modern neuro--fuzzy concepts. After this a generic neuro--fuzzy model is presented, that serves a foundation for specific derived neuro--fuzzy applications, this is shown with a model for neuro--fuzzy data analysis, which we see as an important perspective for the neuro--fuzzy domain. The paper concludes with some thoughts on further research directions that go beyond simple neuro--fuzzy control applications. 1 Introduction Neuro--fuzzy systems enjoyed an ever growing popularity over the recent years. The first approaches were mainly neuro--fuzzy controllers, but newer ..