MFILM: A multi-dimensional fuzzy inductive learning method

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-281

  Chen, Yao Tsung ^a   Jeng, Bingchiang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Expert systems; Inductive learning; Machine learning; Multi dimensional decision tree

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION TABLES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION TREES; INDUCTIVE LEARNING; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DECISION TREE; SPLITTING BRANCHES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 27544436369     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: 13623079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09528130500281828     Document Type: Review

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