Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration

Preface

This is a book about using fuzzy logic and evolutionary strategies —

primarily genetic algorithms—to explore the structure of data, understand

patterns in data, and create rule-based models from these patterns. As a

general approach to exploring and modeling data, it is neither a book on

data mining nor a book on expert or decision support systems. Rather,

its goal is to provide project managers, business analysts, knowledge

engineers, and system developers with a broad spectrum of concepts

underlying the use of fuzzy systems and genetic algorithms.

These two technologies are complementary in many ways. Fuzzy sys-

tems provide an extraordinarily rich way of representing and manipulating

a wide universe of diverse business, industry, policy,