Course Description :
Introduction: Computational Intelligence, Hard versus Soft
Computing, Data driven versus Rule driven Modeling approaches. Neural
Networks, artificial versus biological neurons. Networks, layers, transfer functions, perceptron, the learning process, back propagation algorithm for training feedforward NNs, recurrent networks, Radial Basis Function (RBF) Networks Support Vector Machines, applications to functions approximation, classification, vision and control problems. Classical sets and fuzzy sets, membership functions, classical relations and fuzzy relations, fuzzy–to-crisp conversions. Fuzzy rules, Fuzzy
Inference System (FIS), Mamdani and Sugeno fuzzy inference systems, MATLAB FIS building tools, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems (ANFIS), Soft RBF or Fuzzy Additive Models (FAMs), FIS vs. FAM, Fuzzy clustering/ classification, Fuzzy pattern recognition, Fuzzy control systems.