Qualitative reasoning based on fuzzy relative orders of magnitude

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-23

  Ali, Allel Hadj ^a,b   Dubois, Didier ^b   Prade, Henri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MOULOUD MAMMERI   (Algeria)

^b IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Closeness; Fuzzy numbers; Fuzzy relations; Negligibility; Qualitative probabilities; Relative orders of magnitude

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUZZY CONTROL; INFERENCE ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

FUZZY RELATIONS; INFERENCE RULES; QUALITATIVE REASONING;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0037331431     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2002.806313     Document Type: Article

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