On some vagaries of vagueness and information

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 343-355

  Termini, Settimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzziness; Information; Ontology of vague predicates; Semantics of fuzzy sets; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036116790     PISSN: 10122443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014512024132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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