Analysis and efficient implementation of a linguistic fuzzy C-means

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 563-582

  Auephanwiriyakul, Sansanee ^a,b   Keller, James M ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Thailand)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Efficient computation; Extension principle; Fuzzy C means (FCM); Linguistic vectors

Indexed keywords

FUZZY ARITHMETIC; LINGUISTIC VECTORS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0036802259     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2002.803492     Document Type: Article

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