Using Neural Networks to Determine Sugeno Measures by Statistics.

Abstract

To replace the traditional weighted average method, Choquet integrals or Sugeno integrals with respect to fuzzy measures are used to obtain a synthetic evaluation of a given object (or its quality, function, etc. respectively) with multi-attribute. Generally, it is not easy to determine fuzzy measures in real problems due to the subjectivity of human thinking. It is even much more difficult than determining weights in the weighted average method, because of the nonadditivity of fuzzy measures. This paper uses a neural network algorithm to optimize the inverse problem of synthetic evaluation, and thus to determine Sugeno measures by the Choquet integral and statistics of given data. Since the Choquet integral is a generalization of the weighted average method, this technology has a broad applicability in areas of multivariate analysis, decision making, pattern recognition, image and speech processing and expert systems. Copyright 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.