Fuzzy Qualitative Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1038-1061

  Shen, Qiang ^a   Leitch, Roy ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUZZY SETS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FUZZY QUALITATIVE SIMULATION; GRADED MEMBERSHIP; PHYSICAL VARIABLES; QUALITATIVE REASONING; SYSTEM MODELLING; TEMPORAL FILTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0027632443     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.247887     Document Type: Article

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