Modular rough fuzzy MLP: evolutionary design

The article describes a way of designing a hybrid system for classification and rule generation, integrating rough set theory with a fuzzy MLP using an evolutionary algorithm. An l-class classification problem is split into l two-class problems. Crude subnetworks are initially obtained for each of these two-class problems via rough set theory. These subnetworks are then combined and the final network is evolved using a GA with restricted mutation operator which utilizes the knowledge of the modular structure already generated, for faster convergence.