Self-organizing feature-map-based fuzzy system

This paper presents a neuro-fuzzy system by using the Kohonen's self-organizing feature map algorithm, not only for its vector quantitization feature, but also for its topological property. This property prevents the proposed neuro-fuzzy system from suffering from a drawback like any of the conventional clustering-algorithm-based fuzzy systems, i.e. the optimal number of clusters or some kind of similarity threshold must be predetermined. Associated with the self-organizing feature-map-based fuzzy system is a hybrid learning algorithm, which is for initial parameters setting and fine-tuning the parameters of the system.