Modeling spatial relationships within a fuzzy framework

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 253-266

  Cobb, Maria A ^a,c   Petry, Frederick E ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

ABSTRACT SPATIAL GRAPH; SPATIAL QUERIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0032027760     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199803)49:3<253::aid-asi6>3.0.co;2-f     Document Type: Article

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