Practical Neural Network Recipies in C++

Fuzzy

Data and

Processing

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many people. Fuzzy set theory gives us ways of consolidating

subjective data in this way.

It is not only input values that sometimes need fuzzy process-

ing. It may be that the ultimate goal of our network is to provide

results stated in apparently subjective terms. Perhaps we have a

network that has been trained

to

predict economic performance figures

given various strategies. Upper management wants to say to us,

"What if we raise prices 10 percent and shift 30 percent of our

advertising budget to the midwest region?" Our network can tell us

what the predicted sales will be in each region as a result of that

strateg ...