International Journal of Geophysics / 2013 / Article / Tab 1 / Research Article
Soft Schemes for Earthquake-Geotechnical Dilemmas Table 1 Central characteristics of soft computing technologies.
ā Fuzzy sets Artificial neural networks Evolutionary computing, GA Probabilistic reasoning Chaotic computing Weaknesses (i) Knowledge acquisition (ii) Learning Black box interpretability (i) Coding (ii) Computational speed (i) Limitation of the axioms of probability theory (ii) Lack of complete knowledge (iii) Computational complexity (i) Computational complexity (ii) Chaos identification complexity Strengths (i) Interpretability (ii) Transparency (iii) Plausibility (iv) Graduality (v) Modeling (vi) Reasoning (vii) Tolerance to imprecision (i) Learning (ii) Adaptation (iii) Fault tolerance (iv) Curve fitting (v) Generalization ability (vi) Approximation ability (i) Computational efficiency (ii) Global optimization (i) Rigorous framework (ii) Good understanding (i) Nonlinear dynamics simulation (ii) Discovering chaos in observed data (with noise) (iii) Determining the predictability (iv) Prediction strategies formulation