Calculating Membership Values

How is the membership of an object in a class determined If it is obvious that an object lies completely in one class, or must have no membership in it, this is easy. We can confidently assign a membership of 0 in the volatile class to steel or diamond. How, though, do we know what membership in that class to give to a chemical, such as carbon disulfide, which has a boiling 

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This is easily done. Rather than averaging the values of all consequents that predict membership of the same fuzzy set, we include separately the membership values for every rule in the calculation of equation (8.6). As Figure 8.18 shows, there are now three areas to consider, so the numerator in equation (8.6) becomes ... 

First, a list of unique scaffolds was derived and sorted by complexity. The complexity was calculated from four structural descriptors, namely number of rings in the smallest set of smallest rings, number of heavy atoms, number of bonds and the sum of heavy atomic numbers in the scaffold. Each scaffold or class center in the list was assigned an ID that corresponded to its position in the list. How much a molecule resembled its class center was determined by the number of side-chains attached to the scaffold. Fewer side-chains will give a closer resemblance to the class center. The similarity of a drug with the class center was reflected in the membership value. The membership value was based on the sum of heavy atomic numbers, the number of rotating bonds, the number of one and two nodes and the number of double and triple bonds in a molecule compared with its scaffold. Since the membership value indicated the contribution of rings in the class center for a certain... 

The total of all membership values of a feature is equal to 1. A cluster can have different shapes, depending on the selection of prototypes. The calculation of the membership values depends on the definition of the distance measure. If a feature is closer to a cluster, its membership value will be higher. 

When we have evaluated all the rules, an output variable might belong to two or more fuzzy subsets to different degrees. For example, in the enzyme problem one rule might conclude that the rate is low to a degree of 0.2 and another that the rate is low to a degree of 0.8. In aggregation, all the fuzzy values that have been calculated for each output variable are combined to provide a consensus value for the membership of the output variable in each... 

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Although exact classification rules for PLS-DA can vary, they are all based on determining the membership of the unknown to a specific class by assessing the closeness of each of the predicted Y-values to 1. For example, one could calculate the standard deviations for each of the estimated Y-variables in the calibration data to obtain uncertainties for each of the variables, and then use this uncertainty to determine whether an unknown sample belongs to a given class based on the proximity of the unknown s Y-values to 1. 

Maximal surface complementarity between two molecules is reached when O g is maximal while V g takes a minimum value. The new technology has been tested in an initial application by matching the surfaces of the two flexible proteins tryspin and PTI. In this application the membership functions and x,y were calculated from molecular dynamic simulations similar to those reported earlier. It turns out that the structure of the trypin-PTI complex is very close to that which was found in x-ray studies. 

Based upon this knowledge representation for a given H peak p, if p is in the expected tolerance range, the conclusion substructure graph ssg can be deduced. The membership of p belonging to ssg pip ssg) can be calculated using Eq. (21). Due to severe peak overlaps, different deductions may have the same pip - ssg) value. It is also possible that an incorrect deduction can render a better pip ssg) value. Therefore, the conclusion cannot be based only upon a single membership function value. 

From this new partitioning, new cluster centres are calculated by applying Equation (33), and the process repeats until the total change in values of the membership functions is less than some preselected value, or a set number of iterations has been achieved. 

The sum ( ia + Pik) is unity, which satisfies Equation 4.34, and the membership functions for the other objects can be calculated in a similar manner. The process is repeated and after five iterations the total change in the squared values is less than 10 and the membership functions are considered stable. Table 4.11. This result. Figure 4.17, accurately reflects the symmetric distribution of the data. 

The rule viewer shown in Fig. 13 consists of the system s inputs and output column. The first and second column is the inputs which are maturity level and size while third column is the quality level output (defuzzification output). Based on the defuzzification results from the rule viewer in Fig. 13 where the maturity (= 0.66) is in matured set with membership grade 1 and size (= 0.5) is in big and medium set both with 0.5 membership grade. The defuzzification value of quality is calculated by using centroid method. Then the classification of fruit is determined based on crisp logic given in Table 3. 

In this case the distance cannot be calculated using the Euclidean distance (13.1) because the number of dimensions might not be the same for all points under test. Since the number of dimensions influences the value of the distance, it would require the definition of several sets of membership functions, one per possible number of dimensions. The number of dimensions cannot be predicted beforehand because it will depend on the maximum number of references, the distance to the references and the sensitivity of the mobile receiver. To cope with this, the distance will be calculated using (13.2) ... 

The truth value of a proposition is calculated by a combination of membership degrees. For... 

In accordance with the membership degrees of different membership functions, the truth values of different rules () can be determined using the following calculations. 

To get a feel of the fuzzy definition set, detection likelihood, as shown in Fig. lV/2.2.3-1, has been transformed into a fuzzy definition. A typical fuzzy membership is shown in Fig. lV/2.6.4-2. Actual fuzzy values are derived based on the fuzzy rule set. Fuzzy inputs are evaluated using a rule-based set, so that criticality and RPN calculations can be made. In the fuzzification process, with help of crisp ranking, set S O D is converted into fuzzy representation so that these can be matched with the rule base. Here, the if then rule has two parts an antecedent (which is compared to input) and consequence (which is the result). On the other hand, in the defuzzification process, the reverse takes place. It is possible to automate FMEA using fuzzy logic and rule-based systems. The rule allows quantitative data such as occurrence to be easily combined with judgmental and quantitative data (such as severity and detectability) very easily and uniformly. The rule based on the linguistic variables is more expressive and useful (for further reading see Ref. [11]). 

The last layer defuzzifies the computed values of y, using an average weighting procedure. A backpropagation training method can be employed to find the optimal values for the parameters of the membership functions and a least squares procedure for the linear parameters of the fuzzy mles, in such a way as to minimize the error between the calculated output and the measured output. 

The value which is derived from function calculation(by computer) constitutes the relative membership matrix R of the performance index ... 

As an example, to illustrate the fuzzy control calculations, suppose that the error e = +0.1 and the derivative of error de/dt = +0.4. The membership grades determined from Fig. 16.23, associated to each rule, are summarized in Table 16.2. The rules 1, 4, 7, 8, and 9 are inactive. This situation occurs because the firing strength for each of these five rules is = 0 thus these rules do not contribute to the defuzzification calculation of Eq. 16-39. These values are zero because two conditions occur (1) is defined as the minimum of the two membership grades associated with Rule k, and... 

The mathematical tool for calculating direction lda which has the maximum possible r-value is multiple linear regression as described in Section 3.1.3, The y-variable is binary in this case and indicates the membership of an object to one of the two mutually exclusive classes. A training set consisting of objects from both classes (data matrices Xa and Xb) is used to calculate the discriminant vector (decision vector) lda by equation (22), using equation (23) for the pooled covariance matrix C,... 

Both function (3.4) and (3.5) have the advantage, that they are very simple for calculation. More complex, but more naturally way to describe the membership to one value would be the normal (Gaussian) Curve, presented on the Figure 3.6. 

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