From computing with numbers to computing with words - From manipulation of measurements to manipulation of perceptions

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-119

  Zadeh, Lotfi A ^a,b  

^a Graduate School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMPUTING WITH WORDS (CW); GENERALIZED CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE (GCL); TERMINAL DATA SET (TDS);

CIRCUIT THEORY;

EID: 0032786058     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.739259     Document Type: Article

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