Rule-based and case-based reasoning are two popular approaches used in intelligent systems. Rules usually represent general knowledge, whereas cases encompass knowledge accumulated from specific (specialized) situations. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages, which are proved to be complementary to a large degree. So, it is well justified to combine rules and cases to produce effective hybrid approaches, surpassing the disadvantages of each component method. In this paper, we first present advantages and disadvantages of rule-based and case-based reasoning and show that they are complementary. We then discuss the deficiencies of existing categorization schemes for integrations of rule-based and case-based representations. To deal with these deficiencies, we introduce a new categorization scheme. Finally, we briefly present representative approaches for the final categories of our scheme.Keywords: hybrid intelligent systems, intelligent integrated systems, combination of rule-based and case-based reasoning, rule-based reasoning, case-based reasoning
Neurules are a kind of hybrid rules integrating neurocomputing and production rules. Each neurule is represented as an adaline unit. Thus, the corresponding neurule base consists of a number of autonomous adaline units (neurules). Due to this fact, a modular and natural knowledge base is constructed, in contrast to existing connectionist knowledge bases. In this paper, we present a method for generating neurules from empirical data. To overcome the difficulty of the adaline unit to classify non-separable training examples, the notion of 'closeness' between training examples is introduced. In case of a training failure, two subsets of 'close' examples are produced from the initial training set and a copy of the neurule for each subset is trained. Failure of training any copy, leads to production of further subsets as far as success is achieved.
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