EE453

FUZZY SYSTEMS AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Different faces of imprecision – inexactness, Ambiguity, Undecidability, Fuzziness and certainty, Fuzzy sets and crisp sets.


Intersections of Fuzzy sets, Union of Fuzzy sets, the complement of Fuzzy sets - Fuzzy reasoning .


Linguistic variables, Fuzzy propositions, Fuzzy compositional rules of inference- Methods of decompositions and defuzzification.


Methodology of fuzzy design - Direct & Indirect methods with single and multiple experts ,Applications - Fuzzy controllers –Control and Estimation.


Genetic Algorithms- Basic structure coding steps of GA, Convergence characteristics, Applications.


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  3. M.Mitchell,”Introduction to Genetic Algorithms”, Indian reprint, MIT press,Cambridge,USA,1996.