Concepts formation: Representation and processing issues

  • K. Hirota*
  • , W. Pedrycz
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Concept formation contrives one among vital issues in all fields of science. It can be stated that, to a significant degree, a scientific discovery is related to various aspects of creation of general categories out of a mass of raw empirical data analyzed from a suitable perspective. Thus, as it is seen now, the concept of any notion is constructed on the basis of a significant amount of previous experience. Despite a lot of research completed, there still exists a number of open questions about diverse features of the constructed concepts. In this article we develop a framework for concept formation making use of a logical platform of fuzzy sets combined with mechanisms of neurocom‐putations. It will be indicated how for a given naming of the concept its description can be derived. Moreover, a particular attention will be devoted to mechanisms justifying a relevance of the concepts with respect to a collection of available empirical facts. This may play a primordial role in recognizing some limitations of a character of the concept (i.e., its generality or specificity) which cannot be exceeded simultaneously not losing consistency with the family of collected objects utilized within the process of concept formation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3-13
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Intelligent Systems
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1992
Externally publishedYes

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