Genetic-fuzzy knowledge-integration strategies

We propose a GA based fuzzy knowledge integration framework that can simultaneously integrate multiple fuzzy rule sets and their membership function sets. The proposed approach includes fuzzy knowledge encoding and fuzzy knowledge integration. In the encoding phase, each fuzzy rule set with its associated membership functions is first transformed into an intermediary representation, and further encoded as a string. In the knowledge integration phase, a genetic algorithm is used to generate an optimal or nearly optimal set of fuzzy rules and membership functions from the initial knowledge population. The hepatitis diagnostic problem was used to show the performance of the proposed knowledge integration approach.