Characteristics of Soft Computing

Characteristics
• Human expertise • Intensive computation
• Biologically inspired • Fault tolerance
computing models • Goal driven
• New optimization characteristics
techniques • Real world application
• Numerical computation
• New application
domains
• Model-free learning
 Human expertise
• Softcomputing utilized human expertise in the
form of fuzzy if then rules as well as in
conventional knowledge representations to
solve practical problems
Biologically inspired computing models
• Biological neural networks-artificial neural
networks
• Perception, pattern recognition, non linear
regression and classification problems
 New optimization techniques
• Genetic algorithm
• Simulated annealing
• Random search
• Down hill simplex method
 Numerical Computation
• Softcomputing mainly rely on numerical
computation
• Using symbolic techniques in soft computing
is an active research area within this field
 Model free learning
• Neural networks and adaptive fuzzy system
have ability to construct models using only
target system sample data
 Intensive computation
• Neuro-fuzzy and soft computing rely heavily
on high speed computation to find rules or
regularity in data sets
• It is a common feature of all areas of
computational intelligence
 Fault tolerance
• Fuzzy and Neural networks exhibit this
property
• Deletion of a neuron in a neural network or a
rule in fuzzy inference system does not
destroy the system
• Performance quality deteriorates
 Goal driven characteristics
• Domain specific knowledge helps to reduce
the amount of computation and search time
• Path leading from current state to the solution
does not really matter
 Real world applications
• Built in uncertainities
• Conventional approaches becomes little
difficult to be solved
• Softcomputing techniques gives satisfactory
solutions to real world problems in various
disciplines all over the world