Precise and Accurate Job Cycle Time Forecasting in a Wafer Fabrication Factory with a Fuzzy Data Mining Approach

Table 2

Data mining methods for job cycle time forecasting.

Category	Examples
Clustering	Backus et al. [1], Meidan et al. [6]
GA	Chang et al. [8]
Decision trees	CART [1], SNBC [6], and Tirkel [15]
ANN	Chen [5], Chang and Hsieh [9], Sha and Hsu [10],; Chang et al. [8], Backus et al. [1], Chien et al. [4], Meidan et al. [6], and Tirkel [15]
Hybrid approaches	SOM-WM [26], kM-FBPN [11, 29], look-ahead SOM-FBPN [3, 23, 24], post-classifying FBPN-BPN [13, 14], and bi-directional classifying FCM-FBPN-RBF [25]