Super-exponential convergence of the Karnik-Mendel algorithms for computing the centroid of an interval type-2 fuzzy set

Date

2007-04-01

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1063-6706

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Publisher

IEEE

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Article

Peer reviewed

Abstract

Description

KM algorithms are widely used to perform type-reduction and to compute the centroid of type-2 fuzzy sets. Because KM algorithms are iterative, there has been some concern about their convergance time. Many people have observed, from simulations, that convergence occurs rapidly, i.e. under 10 iterations; but, it is one thing to observe this in simulations and another thing to mathematically prove super-exponential convergence, as is done in this paper. So, by mathematically proving superexponential convergence, Mendel and Liu have provided the type- 2 fuzzy set community with concrete evidence of the speed of the KM Algorithms.

Keywords

RAE 2008, UoA 23 Computer Science and Informatics, centroid, interval type-2 fuzzy sets, Karnik-Mendel algorithms

Citation

Mendel, J. M. and Liu, F. (2007) Super-exponential convergence of the Karnik-Mendel algorithms for computing the centroid of an interval type-2 fuzzy set. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 15 (2), pp. 309-320.

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Research Institute