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Fundamentals of Soft Fundamentals of Soft
ComputingComputing
Roberto Sepúlveda* and Oscar Montiel
ABSTRACT
This is an introduction to the most common soft computing (SC)
techniques. It provides to the novice reader interested in this fi eld
of knowledge, the fundamentals of this technology, and for the
experimented practitioner it can be used as a practical quick reference.
In this chapter, the main topics discussed are the type-1 and type-2 fuzzy
logic systems, neural networks and artifi cial neuro-fuzzy inference
system (ANFIS).
1.1 Introduction
In the 1940s and 50s, several researchers proved that many dynamic systems
can be mathematically modeled ...