IFOOD: An intelligent fuzzy object-oriented database architecture

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1137-1154

  Koyuncu, Murat ^a   Yazici, Adnan ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Flexible querying; Fuzzy set theory; Knowledge base systems; Object oriented databases; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

INTELLIGENT FUZZY OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141613779     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2003.1232269     Document Type: Article

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