“…In the fields of theoretical study, applying the expert system to the classification problem and pattern recognition has drawn the considerable attention of many researchers for the last decade (Ishibuchi, Nozaki, Yamamoto, & Tanaka, 1995;Li, Guo, & Kuo, 2005;Ravi & Zimmermann, 2000;Ray & Ghoshal, 2000;Ye & Li, 2002;Yuan & Zhuang, 1996). However, an expert system often includes a great quantity of the knowledge base and spends a lot of time to establish it.…”