Quotient FCMs - A Decomposition Theory for Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 593-604

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Liu, Zhi Qiang ^a,b   Zhou, Sanming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Fuzzy causal network; Fuzzy cognitive map; Quotient networks

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS (FCM);

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0142258236     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2003.817836     Document Type: Article

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