Fuzzy modifiers based on fuzzy relations

Information Sciences

Volumn 160, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 173-199

  De Cock, Martine ^a   Kerre, Etienne E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Approximate reasoning; Fuzzy modifier; Fuzzy relation; Linguistic modifier; Linguistic variable

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LINGUISTICS; MAPPING; SET THEORY;

FUZZY MODIFIERS; FUZZY RELATIONS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 1342264195     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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