Solving fuzzy inequalities with piecewise linear membership functions

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 230-235

  Hu, Cheng Feng ^a   Fang, Shu Cherng ^b  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY INEQUALITY; PIECEWISE LINEAR MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0033116440     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.755403     Document Type: Article

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