Fuzzy semantics for direction relations between composite regions

Information Sciences

Volumn 160, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 73-90

  Claramunt, Christophe ^a   Thériault, Marius ^b  

^a Naval Academy Research Institute   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPOSITE REGIONS; FUZZY SEMANTICS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 1342285557     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2003.07.013     Document Type: Article

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