Design of Hierarchical Fuzzy Classification System Based on Statistical Characteristics of Data

Abstract

A scheme for designing a hierarchical fuzzy classification system with a different number of fuzzy partitions based on statistical characteristics of the data is proposed. To minimize the number of misclassified patterns in intermediate layers, a method of fuzzy partitioning from the defuzzified outputs of previous layers is also presented. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by comparing the results from five datasets in the UCI Machine Learning Repository.