An investigation on the spread of fuzziness in multi-fold multi-stage approximate reasoning by pictorial representation - Under sup-min composition and triangular type membership function

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-148

  Maeda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Approximate reasoning; Explosion of fuzziness; Implication function; Multiple rules; Multiple stages; Spread of fuzziness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001163622     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0114(95)00190-5     Document Type: Article

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