Resumen de Adaptation of the Notification Oriented Paradigm (NOP) for the Development of Fuzzy Systems
L C Vianna Melo, J M Simao, J A Fabro
The Notification Oriented Paradigm (NOP) combines and evolves the event based programming with the declarative programming in order to solve some problems of both paradigms. Breaking down one application into a network of smaller computational entities, such as logic-causal and factual notifier entities that processes only when needed, the NOP eliminates the need to perform unnecessary computations and improves the code reusability. Fuzzy systems, in turn, perform inference based on knowledge bases (IF-THEN rules) that can cope with problems involving imprecision. Since NOP uses IF-THEN rules in an alternative way, by reducing evaluation redundancy and coupling, this research was conducted to identify, propose and evaluate the needed changes on the NOP to allow its use in the development of fuzzy systems. The tests results showed a significant reduction in the number of evaluated rules, which may represent improvement in performance of the applications.
