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A novel fuzzy first-order logic learning system.

Tse, Ming Fun. / Thesis submitted in: December 2001. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-146). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Problem Definition --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Contributions --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Outline --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Representing Inexact Knowledge --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Nature of Inexact Knowledge --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Probability Based Reasoning --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Certainty Factor Algebra --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Fuzzy Logic --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2 --- Machine Learning Paradigms --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Classifications --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Neural Networks and Gradient Descent --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- Related Learning Systems --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Relational Concept Learning --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Learning of Fuzzy Concepts --- p.24 / Chapter 2.4 --- Fuzzy Logic --- p.26 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Fuzzy Set --- p.27 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Basic Notations in Fuzzy Logic --- p.29 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Basic Operations on Fuzzy Sets --- p.29 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- "Fuzzy Relations, Projection and Cylindrical Extension" --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.5 --- Fuzzy First Order Logic and Fuzzy Prolog --- p.34 / Chapter 3 --- Knowledge Representation and Learning Algorithm --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1 --- Knowledge Representation --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Fuzzy First-order Logic ´ؤ A Powerful Language --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Literal Forms --- p.48 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Continuous Variables --- p.50 / Chapter 3.2 --- System Architecture --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Data Reading --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Preprocessing and Postprocessing --- p.67 / Chapter 4 --- Global Evaluation of Literals --- p.71 / Chapter 4.1 --- Existing Closeness Measures between Fuzzy Sets --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Error Function and the Normalized Error Functions --- p.75 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The Error Function --- p.75 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- The Normalized Error Functions --- p.76 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Nodal Characteristics and the Error Peaks --- p.79 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- The Nodal Characteristics --- p.79 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- The Zero Error Line and the Error Peaks --- p.80 / Chapter 4.4 --- Quantifying the Nodal Characteristics --- p.85 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Information Theory --- p.86 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Applying the Information Theory --- p.88 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Upper and Lower Bounds of CE --- p.89 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- The Whole Heuristics of FF99 --- p.93 / Chapter 4.5 --- An Example --- p.94 / Chapter 5 --- Partial Evaluation of Literals --- p.99 / Chapter 5.1 --- Importance of Covering in Inductive Learning --- p.100 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- The Divide-and-conquer Method --- p.100 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- The Covering Method --- p.101 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Effective Pruning in Both Methods --- p.102 / Chapter 5.2 --- Fuzzification of FOIL --- p.104 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Analysis of FOIL --- p.104 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Requirements on System Fuzzification --- p.107 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Possible Ways in Fuzzifing FOIL --- p.109 / Chapter 5.3 --- The α Covering Method --- p.111 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Construction of Partitions by α-cut --- p.112 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Adaptive-α Covering --- p.112 / Chapter 5.4 --- The Probabistic Covering Method --- p.114 / Chapter 6 --- Results and Discussions --- p.119 / Chapter 6.1 --- Experimental Results --- p.120 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Iris Plant Database --- p.120 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Kinship Relational Domain --- p.122 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- The Fuzzy Relation Domain --- p.129 / Chapter 6.1.4 --- Age Group Domain --- p.134 / Chapter 6.1.5 --- The NBA Domain --- p.135 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future Development Directions --- p.137 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Speed Improvement --- p.137 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Accuracy Improvement --- p.138 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Others --- p.138 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.140 / Bibliography --- p.142 / Chapter A --- C4.5 to FOIL File Format Conversion --- p.147 / Chapter B --- FF99 example --- p.150

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_323796
Date January 2002
ContributorsTse, Ming Fun., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, x, 153 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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