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A Connectionist Fuzzy Case-Based Reasoning Model

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This paper presents a new version of an existing hybrid model for the development of knowledge-based systems, where case-based reasoning is used as a problem solver. Numeric predictive attributes are modeled in terms of fuzzy sets to define neurons in an associative Artificial Neural Network (ANN). After the Fuzzy-ANN is trained, its weights and the membership degrees in the training examples are used to automatically generate a local distance function and an attribute weighting scheme. Using this distance function and following the Nearest Neighbor rule, a new hybrid Connectionist Fuzzy Case-Based Reasoning model is defined. Experimental results show that the model proposed allows to develop knowledge-based systems with a higher accuracy than when using the original model. The model takes the advantages of the approaches used, providing a more natural framework to include expert knowledge by using linguistic terms.

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Rodriguez, Y., Garcia, M.M., De Baets, B., Morell, C., Bello, R. (2006). A Connectionist Fuzzy Case-Based Reasoning Model. In: Gelbukh, A., Reyes-Garcia, C.A. (eds) MICAI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4293. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11925231_17

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