BALANCED FUZZY COMPUTING UNIT

We introduce and study a new concept of fuzzy computing units. This construct is is aimed at coping with "negative" (inhibitory) information and accommodating it in the language of fuzzy sets. The essential concept developed in this study deals with computing units exploiting the concept of balanced fuzzy sets. We recall how the membership notion of fuzzy sets can be extended to the [-1,1] range giving rise to balanced fuzzy sets and then summarize properties of augmented (extended) logic operations for these constructs. We show that this idea is particularly appealing in neurocomputing as the "negative" information captured through balanced fuzzy sets exhibits a straightforward correspondence with inhibitory processing mechanisms encountered in neural networks. This gives rise to interesting properties of balanced computing units when compared with fuzzy and logic neurons developed on the basis of classical logic and classical fuzzy sets. Illustrative examples concerning topologies and properties and learning of balanced fuzzy computing units are included. A number of illustrative examples concerning topologies, properties and learning of balanced fuzzy fuzzy computing units are included.