Determining the significance of threshold values uncertainty in rule-based classification models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 63-76

  Brugnach, Marcela ^a,b   Bolte, John ^a   Bradshaw, G A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWR   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Genetic algorithms; Spatially explicit rule based models; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

EID: 0037301481     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00309-5     Document Type: Article

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