Plenary Lecture

Integrating Fuzzy Regression and Fuzzy Time Series into Knowledge-Based Modelling


Professor Anna Walaszek-Babiszewska
Opole University of Technology
Department of Control and Computer Engineering
Poland
E-mail: a.walaszek-babiszewska@po.opole.pl

Abstract: The regression methods and time series models have a long history of applications to data analysis and statistical inference dealing with randomness of the modelling systems.
Modelling techniques based on fuzzy sets, especially fuzzy rule based models are suitable for modelling nonlinear and complex systems with imprecise information concerning the system structure and variables. The rules can be seen as local submodels of the system, operating in particular fuzzy regions.
In this work we present the methods of the creating the probabilistic-fuzzy knowledge base and the inference procedure. The rules have fuzzy antecedents representing linguistic values of input variables and consequents in the form of fuzzy regression equations or fuzzy time series models. This approach can be seen as an extension of the concept of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models.
Such knowledge base and inference procedure, as parts of an expert system, are capable of supporting human decisions in control, prediction, diagnosis and in many fields of activity.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Anna Walaszek-Babiszewska was born in Wroclaw, Poland. She received M. Sc. degree (1970) in Control Engineering from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland. Since 1970 she has been with the Silesia University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, where she received Ph. D. and D. Sc. (Habilitation) degrees in 1980 and 1994, respectively. At present, she is a professor at the Opole University of Technology, Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Opole, Poland.
Her research interests include: stochastic and fuzzy modeling, knowledge-based systems, systems identification, data analysis, and applications in technological and managerial situations.
She has supervised 3 and reviewed 5 Ph.D dissertations in engineering and economic sciences. She has published 2 monographic books on stochastic and fuzzy modeling and over 80 scientific papers.
She was a member of the Management Editorial Board (2000-2005) and the Lecture Notes in Control and Computer Science Editorial Board (2003) of the Zielona Gora University Press, Zielona Gora, Poland. She is a member of the Section of Cybernetics in Mining, Mining Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1999).