Fuzzy assessment of machine flexibility

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 78-87

  Tsourveloudis, Nikos C ^a,b,c   Phillis, Yannis A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate reasoning; Flexibility measures; Fuzzy modeling; Linguistic rules; Machine flexibility

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

APPROXIMATE REASONING; INTERVAL VALUED FUZZY SET METHOD; MACHINE FLEXIBILITY;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031996664     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.658664     Document Type: Article

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