Matching strengths of answers in fuzzy relational databases

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 476-481

  Chiang, Ding An ^a   Lin, Nancy P ^a   Shis, Chien Chou ^a  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extra information; Fuzzy disjunctive information; Matching information; Self information

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

FUZZY DISJUNCTIVE INFORMATION; FUZZY RELATIONAL DATABASES;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032136898     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5326.704592     Document Type: Article

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