Modeling participatory learning as a control mechanism

We discuss the participatory learning model originally introduced by Yager IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. SMC-20 , 1229–1234 (1990)]. We analyze the learning mechanism as a stable control strategy. We show how the learning mechanism used in participatory learning can be expressed in the form of a fuzzy rule base. We use this rule base formulation to provide new learning rules. We modify the Widrow-Hoff rule to include a participatory learning mechanism. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.