SQLf: A Relational Database Language for Fuzzy Querying

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-17

  Bosc, Patrick ^a   Pivert, Olivier ^a  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FUZZY SETS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

FUZZY QUERYING; STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; RELATIONAL DATABASE LANGUAGE;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0029246357     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: 19410034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.366566     Document Type: Article

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