Automatically Determine the Membership Function Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle

Information Sciences

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 163-182

  Cheng, H D ^a   Chen, Jim Rong ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0031077375     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(96)00141-7     Document Type: Article

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