Why spatial databases need fuzziness

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 2446-2451

  Morris, Ashley ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DATA STRUCTURES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

DIGITAL MAPPING; FUZZINESS; OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASES; SPATIAL DATABASES; TEXTUAL RETRIEVAL;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0035792073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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