Introduction

The initial idea behind writing this book was to present the new neuro-fuzzy architectures and the novel hybrid learning algorithms, developed as results of research into implication-based neuro-fuzzy systems and learning methods. These research projects were conducted in the Department of Computer Engineering, Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland, and supervised by the author of this book. Some of the conclusions have been published in papers contributed by the author, as well as Dr. Robert Nowicki and Dr. Artur Starczewski, who are the author’s former Ph.D. students. Their Ph.D. dissertations [366], [479] were prepared on the basis of the above mentioned research.