Design of fuzzy classification system using genetic algorithms

This paper proposes a GA-based method to construct an appropriate fuzzy classification system to maximize the number of correctly classified patterns and minimize the number of fuzzy rules. In this method, a fuzzy classification system is coded as an individual in the GA. A fitness function is defined such that it can guide the search procedure to select an appropriate fuzzy classification system to maximize the number of correctly classified patterns and minimize the number of fuzzy rules. Finally, a two-class classification problem is utilized to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method