Neutrosophic classifier: An extension of fuzzy classifer

  • Authors:
  • A. Q. Ansari;Ranjit Biswas;Swati Aggarwal

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110025, India;Department of Computer Science, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi 110062, India;Department of Computer Science Engineering, ITM University, HUDA Sector 23-A, Gurgaon 122017, Haryana, India

  • Venue:
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Fuzzy classification has become of great interest because of its ability to utilize simple linguistically interpretable rules and has overcome the limitations of symbolic or crisp rule based classifiers. This paper introduces an extension to fuzzy classifier: a neutrosophic classifier, which would utilize neutrosophic logic for its working. Neutrosophic logic is a generalized logic that is capable of effectively handling indeterminacy, stochasticity acquisition errors that fuzzy logic cannot handle. The proposed neutrosophic classifier employs neutrosophic logic for its working and is an extension of commonly used fuzzy classifier. It is compared with the commonly used fuzzy classifiers on the following parameters: nature of membership functions, number of rules and indeterminacy in the results generated. It is proved in the paper that extended fuzzy classifier: neutrosophic classifier; optimizes the said parameters in comparison to the fuzzy counterpart. Finally the paper is concluded with justifying that neutrosophic logic though in its nascent stage still holds the potential to be experimented for further exploration in different domains.