CP553: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic

Teaching Scheme Credits Marks Distribution

Theory Marks Practical Marks Total
L T P C Marks
ESE CE ESE CE
3 0 2 5 70 30 30 20 150

Course Content:
Sr. Topics Teaching
No. Hrs.

1 Introduction to Neural Networks: 04

What is Neural Network?, Human Brain and Biological Neuron, Model

of an Artificial Neuron, Activation functions, Neural Network
Architectures, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.

2 Learning Processes: 06

What is Learning?, Types of Learning: Supervised, Unsupervised and

Reinforcement Learning, Basic Learning Rules: Error Correction
Learning, Memory-based Learning, Habbian Learning, Competitive
Learning, Boltzmann Learning, Learning Tasks.

3 Supervised Learning Networks: 08

Single Layer Perceptrons, Linear Separability, XOR Problem,

Multilayer Perceptron – Back-propagation Algorithm and parameters,
Radial-Basis Function Networks, Applications of Supervised Learning
Networks: Pattern Recognition and Prediction.

4 Unsupervised Learning Networks: 08

Hopfield Networks, Associative Memory, Self Organizing Maps,

Applications of Unsupervised Learning Networks.

5 Fuzzy Set Theory and Fuzzy Logic: 04

Crisp Sets and Crisp relations, Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy relations, Crisp
Logic and Fuzzy Logic.
6 Fuzzy Inference Systems and Fuzzy Clustering: 09

Membership function, Fuzzification, Fuzzy Inference, Defuzzification

Methods, Fuzzy Logic Controller, Fuzzy C-Means Clustering,
Applications of Fuzzy Logic.

7 Hybrid Neuro-Fuzzy Systems: 06

Neuro-Fuzzy System: Mamdani approach, Takagi-Sugeno’s Apporach

(ANFIS), Fuzzy Backpropagation Networks, Advantages and
Applications of hybrid Neuro-Fuzzy Systems.

Total Hrs. 45
Reference Books:
1. Simon Haykin, “Neural Networks – A comprehensive Foundation”, Pearson
Education, 1999.
2. T.J.Ross, “Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications”, Wiley, 2005.
3. S. Rajasekaran, and G.A.Vijayalakshmi Pai, “Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and
Genetic Algorithms: Synthesis and Applications”, PHI, New Delhi, 2004.
4. D.K.Pratihar, “Soft Computing”, Narosa Publication House, 2008.
5. J.R.Jang, C. Sun, and E. Mizutani, “Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing: A
Computational Approach to Learning and Machine Intelligence”, PHI, New Delhi,
2012.
6. J. M. Zurada, “Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems”, West Publishing Company,
1992.
7. K.Mehrotra, C.K.Mohan, and S.Ranka, “Elements of Artificial Neural Networks”,
Penram International Publishing (India), 1997.
8. Bart Kosko, “Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A dynamical systems approach to
machine intelligence”, PHI, 1997.
9. H. J. Zimmermann, “Fuzzy Set Theory and its Applications”, 2nd Edition, Kluwer
Academic, 1991.