Fuzzy logic = computing with words

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-111

  Zadeh, Lotfi A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING WITH WORDS (CW); FUZZY CONSTRAINTS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0030142764     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.493904     Document Type: Article

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