Accuracy vs. Interpretability of Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifiers: An Evolutionary Approach

The paper presents a generalization of the Pittsburgh approach to learn fuzzy classification rules from data. The proposed approach allows us to obtain a fuzzy rule-based system with a predefined level of compromise between its accuracy and interpretability (transparency). The application of the proposed technique to design the fuzzy rule-based classifier for the well known benchmark data sets (Dermatology and Wine) available from the http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml is presented. A comparative analysis with several alternative (fuzzy) rule-based classification techniques has also been carried out.