<s>
IEEE	O
STANDARD	O
1855-2016	O
,	O
IEEE	O
Standard	O
for	O
Fuzzy	B-General_Concept
Markup	I-General_Concept
language	I-General_Concept
(	O
FML	O
)	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
technical	O
standard	O
developed	O
by	O
the	O
IEEE	O
Standards	O
Association	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FML	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
eXtensible	B-Protocol
Markup	I-Protocol
Language	I-Protocol
(	O
XML	B-Protocol
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
designers	O
of	O
fuzzy	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
with	O
FML	O
have	O
a	O
unified	O
and	O
high-level	O
methodology	O
for	O
describing	O
interoperable	O
fuzzy	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
IEEE	O
STANDARD	O
1855-2016	O
uses	O
the	O
W3C	O
XML	B-Protocol
Schema	O
definition	O
language	O
to	O
define	O
the	O
syntax	O
and	O
semantics	O
of	O
the	O
FML	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Prior	O
to	O
the	O
introduction	O
of	O
FML	O
,	O
fuzzy	O
logic	O
practitioners	O
could	O
exchange	O
information	O
about	O
their	O
fuzzy	O
algorithms	O
by	O
adding	O
to	O
their	O
software	O
functions	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
read	O
,	O
correctly	O
parse	O
,	O
and	O
store	O
the	O
results	O
of	O
their	O
work	O
in	O
a	O
form	O
compatible	O
with	O
the	O
Fuzzy	B-General_Concept
Control	I-General_Concept
Language	I-General_Concept
(	O
FCL	O
)	O
described	O
and	O
specified	O
by	O
Part	O
7	O
of	O
IEC	O
61131	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FML	O
lets	O
people	O
code	O
fuzzy	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
through	O
a	O
collection	O
of	O
correlated	O
semantic	O
tags	O
that	O
model	O
the	O
components	O
of	O
a	O
classical	O
fuzzy	O
controller	O
—	O
such	O
as	O
knowledge	O
base	O
,	O
rule	O
base	O
,	O
fuzzy	O
variables	O
and	O
fuzzy	O
rules	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
design	O
a	O
well-formed	O
XML-based	O
language	O
,	O
an	O
a	O
XML	B-Protocol
schema	O
describes	O
an	O
FML	O
context-free	O
grammar	O
that	O
defines	O
name	O
,	O
type	O
,	O
and	O
attributes	O
that	O
characterized	O
each	O
XML	B-Protocol
element	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
since	O
an	O
FML	O
program	O
represents	O
only	O
a	O
static	O
view	O
of	O
a	O
fuzzy	O
logic	O
controller	O
,	O
the	O
so-called	O
eXtensible	B-Language
Stylesheet	I-Language
Language	I-Language
Translator	O
(	O
XSLT	B-Application
)	O
changes	O
this	O
static	O
view	O
to	O
a	O
computable	O
version	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Indeed	O
,	O
XSLTs	B-Application
modules	O
can	O
convert	O
the	O
FML-based	O
fuzzy	O
controller	O
in	O
a	O
general	O
purpose	O
computer	O
language	O
using	O
an	O
XSL	B-Language
file	O
containing	O
the	O
translation	O
description	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IEEE	B-General_Concept
1855	I-General_Concept
was	O
the	O
first	O
standard	O
sponsored	O
by	O
the	O
IEEE	O
Computational	O
Intelligence	O
Society	O
.	O
</s>
