Learning cooperative linguistic fuzzy rules using the best–worst ant system algorithm: Research Articles

  • Authors:

  • Jorge Casillas;Oscar Cordón;Iñaki Fernández de Viana;Francisco Herrera

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain;Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Within the field of linguistic fuzzy modeling with fuzzy rule-based systems, the automatic derivation of the linguistic fuzzy rules from numerical data is an important task. In the last few years, a large number of contributions based on techniques such as neural networks and genetic algorithms have been proposed to face this problem. In this article, we introduce a novel approach to the fuzzy rule learning problem with ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms. To do so, this learning task is formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem. Our learning process is based on the COR methodology proposed in previous works, which provides a search space that allows us to obtain fuzzy models with a good interpretability–accuracy trade-off. A specific ACO-based algorithm, the Best–Worst Ant System, is used for this purpose due to the good performance shown when solving other optimization problems. We analyze the behavior of the proposed method and compare it to other learning methods and search techniques when solving two real-world applications. The obtained results lead us to remark the good performance of our proposal in terms of interpretability, accuracy, and efficiency. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 20: 433–452, 2005.