Fuzzy-UCS Revisited: Self-Adaptation of Rule Representations in Michigan-Style Learning Fuzzy-Classifier Systems
Traditional Michigan-style Learning Fuzzy Classifier Systems (LFCS) suffer from limited generalization in continuous domains due to fixed, pre-specified rule representations that cannot adapt to unknown data characteristics. To address this, we propose an adaptive rule representation mechanism featuring evolvable “fuzzy indicators”—parameters that dynamically select between crisp (hyper-rectangular) and fuzzy (triangular) membership functions, enabling online, context-aware rule-shape adaptation. This approach transcends rigid structural assumptions by unifying fuzzy logic, genetic evolution, and supervised learning within a single cohesive framework. Empirical evaluation across multiple continuous-domain benchmark tasks demonstrates that our method achieves significantly higher classification accuracy than the conventional UCS, while exhibiting superior robustness and stability under uncertainty—including noise corruption and missing values.