Measuring Fuzzy Uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 107-118

  Pal, Nikhil R ^a   Brzdek, James C ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive Measures; Entropy; Fuzzy sets; Measures of Fuzziness; Multiplicative Measures

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENTS; PROBABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ADDITIVE MEASURE; CONCAVE FUNCTIONS; FUZZY UNCERTAINTY; MULTIPLICATIVE MEASURE; PROBABILISTIC UNCERTAINTY; RESOLUTIONAL UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHTED FUZZY ENTROPY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0028438836     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: 19410034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.277960     Document Type: Article

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