“…Although the former is more flexible than the latter, it has often a lot of nonuniform overlapping membership functions to which it is hard to assign an understandable linguistic term. Since all the input variables are not necessarily interactive, an iterative construction algorithm involving building and pruning has been developed in [4], [5]. A hierarchical rule structure, where the number of fuzzy rules grows linearly with the input number, is proposed in [6]- [9].…”