Interpretability of linguistic variables: A formal account

Kybernetika

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-248

  Bodenhofer, Ulrich ^a   Bauer, Peter ^b  

^a SOFTWARE COMPETENCE CENTER HAGENBERG   (Austria)

^b COMNEON Electronic Technology ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Fuzzy modeling; Interpretability; Linguistic variable; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544477846     PISSN: 00235954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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