Numerical solution of fuzzy linear equations in engineering analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 391-408

  Rao, S S ^a   Chen, L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; FUZZY ANALYSIS; SEARCH-BASED ALGORITHMS;

LINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032188518     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981015)43:3<391::AID-NME417>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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