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by Akira Imada (October 2004)

Data is not a knowledge but just a set of data. To simply put, Data Mining is to extract a knowledge from a set of data.

Here, we see two studys where Fuzzy Logic is used in Data Mining based on Artificial Immune System,

Jefferson et al. (1991) "The Genesys System: Evolution as a Theme in Artificial Life." proceedings of ALIFE II, Addison-Wesley, pp. 549--577.

Once I was fascinated the way FSM evolves from a very simple structure to a very complex one in this paper. Though structure of a Newral Network could also be evolved, the method would be more less tricky.

This paper regists to be searched for via google, but I finally found the html version at
- http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dyer/Papers/AlifeTracker/Alife91Jefferson.html.
MacLennan (1991) "Synthetic Ethology: An Approach to the Study of Communication." Proceedings of ALIFE II, Addison-Wesley, pp. 549--577.

The author writes (see Section 3.1.2)