A Competent Memetic Algorithm for Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

doi:10.1109/TFUZZ.2015.2426311

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A Competent Memetic Algorithm for Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

2015-12-01

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Giovanni Acampora *

Witold Pedrycz

Autilia Vitiello

DOI：10.1109/TFUZZ.2015.2426311

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Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) form an important class of models for describing and simulating the behavior of dynamic systems through causal reasoning. Owing to their abilities to make the symbolic knowledge processing simple and transparent, FCMs have been successfully used to model the behavior of complex systems originating from numerous application areas, such as economy, politics, medicine, and engineering. However, the design of FCMs necessarily involves domain experts to develop a graph-based model composed of a collection of system's concepts and causal relationships among them. Consequently, since humans exhibit an intrinsic factor of subjectivity and are only able to efficiently develop small-size graph-based models, there is a legitimate need to devise methods capable of automatically learning FCM models from data. This research addresses this need by introducing a competent memetic algorithm to generate FCM models from available historical data, with no human intervention. Extensive benchmarking tests performed on both synthetic and real-world data quantify the performance of the competent memetic method and emphasize its suitability over the models obtained by conventional and noncompetent hybrid evolutionary approaches in terms of accuracy, approximation ability, and convergence speed. Moreover, the proposed approach is shown to be scalable due to its capability to efficiently learn high-dimensional FCM models.

Keywords:

Dynamic system modeling

fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs)

memetic algorithms (MAs)

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