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

Table 1

References relevant to the six categories.

Category	Related references
Statistical analysis	Pearn et al. [2], Chien et al. [4], and Tai et al. [16]
PS	Sivakumar and Chong [17], Okumura [18], and Veeger et al. [19]
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]
CBR	Chang et al. [20], Chiu et al. [21], and Chang et al. [22]
Fuzzy modeling	FBPN [5], Chang et al. [8], kM-FBPN [11], look-ahead SOM-FBPN [3, 23, 24], post-classifying FBPN-BPN [13, 14], and bi-directional classifying FCM-FBPN-RBF [25]
Hybrid methods	SOM-WM [26], SOM-BPN [27], kM-FBPN [11], FCM-FBPN [28, 29], look-ahead SOM-FBPN [3, 23, 24], post-classifying FBPN-BPN [13, 14], and bi-directional classifying FCM-FBPN-RBF [25]