[PDF] OEC552 Soft Computing 2017 Regulation Syllabus, PPT Notes, 2 Marks, Question Banks/Important Questions and Previous years Question Papers for Anna University Students

Soft Computing Constituents-From Conventional AI to Computational Intelligence- Artificial neural network: Introduction, characteristics- learning methods – taxonomy – Evolution of neural networks - basic models - important technologies - applications. Fuzzy logic: Introduction - crisp sets- fuzzy sets - crisp relations and fuzzy relations: cartesian product of relation - classical relation, fuzzy relations, tolerance and equivalence relations, non-iterative fuzzy sets. Genetic algorithm Introduction - biological background - traditional optimization and search techniques - Genetic basic concepts.

McCulloch-Pitts neuron - linear separability - hebb network - supervised learning network: perceptron networks - adaptive linear neuron, multiple adaptive linear neuron, BPN, RBF, TDNNassociative memory network: auto-associative memory network, hetero-associative memory network, BAM, hopfield networks, iterative auto associative memory network & iterative associative memory network –unsupervised learning networks: Kohonen self-organizing feature maps, LVQ – CP networks, ART network.

Membership functions: features, fuzzification, methods of membership value assignments Defuzzification: lambda cuts - methods - fuzzy arithmetic and fuzzy measures: fuzzy arithmetic - extension principle - fuzzy measures - measures of fuzziness -fuzzy integrals - fuzzy rule base and approximate reasoning : truth values and tables, fuzzy propositions, formation of rules decomposition of rules, aggregation of fuzzy rules, fuzzy reasoning-fuzzy inference systems overview of fuzzy expert system-fuzzy decision making.

Genetic algorithm- Introduction - biological background - traditional optimization and search techniques - Genetic basic concepts - operators – Encoding scheme – Fitness evaluation – crossover - mutation - genetic programming – multilevel optimization – real life problem- advances in GA.

Neuro-fuzzy hybrid systems - genetic neuro hybrid systems - genetic fuzzy hybrid and fuzzy genetic hybrid systems - simplified fuzzy ARTMAP - Applications: A fusion approach of multispectral images with SAR, optimization of traveling salesman problem using genetic algorithm approach, soft computing based hybrid fuzzy controllers.