@article {882, title = {Weighted Fuzzy Spiking Neural P Systems}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems}, volume = {2}, year = {2013}, month = {07/2013}, pages = {209-220}, publisher = {IEEE Computational Intelligence Society}, edition = {21}, abstract = {Spiking neural P systems (SN P systems) are a new class of computing models inspired by neurophysiological behavior of biological spiking neurons. In order to make SN P systems capable to represent and process fuzzy and uncertain knowledge, we propose a new class of spiking neural P systems in this paper, called weighted fuzzy spiking neural P systems (WFSN P systems). Some new elements, including fuzzy truth value, certain factor, weighted fuzzy logic, output weight, threshold, new firing rule and two types of neurons, are added to original definition of SN P systems, which allow WFSN P systems to adequately characterize the features of weighted fuzzy production rules in a fuzzy rule-based system. Furthermore, a weighted fuzzy backward reasoning algorithm based on WFSN P systems is developed, which can accomplish dynamic fuzzy reasoning of a rule-based systems more flexibly and intelligently. In addition, we compare the proposed WFSN P systems with other knowledge representation methods, such as fuzzy production rule, conceptual graph and Petri nets, to demonstrate the features or advantages of the proposed techniques.}, issn = {1063-6706}, doi = {10.1109/TFUZZ.2012.2208974}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6242397}, author = {Jun Wang and Peng Shi and Hong Peng and Mario J. P{\'e}rez-Jim{\'e}nez and Tao Wang} }