A fuzzy case-based system for weather prediction

International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 139-146

  Riordan, Denis ^a   Hansen, Bjarne K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Fuzzy similarity measure; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CASE BASED REASONING; FUZZY SIMILARITY MEASURE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0036767563     PISSN: 09691170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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