Numerical solution of fuzzy linear equations in engineering analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 829-846

  Rao, S S ^a   Li, Chen ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy analysis; Fuzzy systems; Linear equations; Numerical solution; Search based algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY LINEAR EQUATIONS; SEARCH BASED ALGORITHMS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0032122909     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19980715)42:5<829::AID-NME386>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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