Extending object-oriented databases for fuzzy information modeling

Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 421-435

  Ma, Z M ^a   Zhang, W J ^b   Ma, W Y ^c  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fuzzy data; Fuzzy object oriented database model; Object oriented databases; Operations; Semantic measure

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

FUZZY DATA; FUZZY OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE MODEL; OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES; OPERATIONS; SEMANTIC MEASURE;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 1342328018     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(03)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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