Functional dependencies with null values, fuzzy values, and crisp values

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-103

  Liao, S Y ^a   Wang, H Q ^a   Liu, W Y ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy functional dependency; Fuzzy value; Null value; Relational database; Semantic proximity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002536825     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.746321     Document Type: Article

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