On elicitation of membership functions

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 761-767

  Pedrycz, Witold ^a,b   Vukovich, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy and entropy measure of fuzziness; Focal region; Fuzzy sets; Median; Membership functions; Robust estimator; Triangular and parabolic membership functions

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FUZZY SET ELICITATION METHOD; PARABOLIC MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; ROBUST ESTIMATOR; TRIANGULAR MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0036880615     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2002.807048     Document Type: Article

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