Examples

Fuzzification

nebular provides basic fuzzy membership functions, that can be used with Java collections to create fuzzy sets.

In the example below, we will see how to create a sigmoidal membership function and store its elements and their respective membership values in a HashMap. 

SigmoidalMembershipFunction mf = new SigmoidalMembershipFunction(0.5, 1.5);
Map<Double, Double> map = new LinkedHashMap<Double, Double>();

for(double i = 0.0; i <= 2.0 ; i+=0.01) {
    map.put(i, mf.evaluate(i));
}

NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance();
nf.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);
nf.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
for(Map.Entry<Double, Double> entry : map.entrySet()) {
    System.out.println("i="+nf.format(entry.getKey())+", degree="+nf.format(entry.getValue()));
}

The output is a map containing the initial values and its membership degrees, calculated using the sigmoidal membership function. 

i=0.00, degree=0.32
i=0.01, degree=0.32
i=0.02, degree=0.32
i=0.03, degree=0.32
i=0.04, degree=0.33
...
...
...
i=1.95, degree=0.56
i=1.96, degree=0.56
i=1.97, degree=0.56
i=1.98, degree=0.56
i=1.99, degree=0.56

Defuzzification

nebular has also functions for defuzzification, used to extract a crisp value from a fuzzy set. Below example demonstrates how to use the centroid defuzzification function, applied over a range of doubles and a trapezoidal membership function. 

NumericRange<Double> x = new DoubleRange(-10.0, 10.0, 0.1);
MembershipFunction<Double> mf = new TrapezoidalMembershipFunction(-5.0, -3.0, 0.0, 4.0);
DefuzzificationFunction<Double> df = new CentroidDefuzzificationFunction<Double>();
double out = df.evaluate(x, mf);
System.out.printf("The defuzzified output is %.4f", out);

Running the example above will produce the following output. 

The defuzzified output is -0.9167