Interpreting and extracting fuzzy decision rules from fuzzy information systems and their inference

Information Sciences

Volumn 176, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1869-1897

  Pei, Zheng ^a   Resconi, Germano ^b   Van Der Wal, Ariën J ^c   Qin, Keyun ^d   Xu, Yang ^d  

^a XIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c Qubitech Scientific BV   (Netherlands)

^d SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer theory; Fuzzy information systems; Fuzzy truth value restriction; Modal logic; Morphogenic neuron; Perception computing; The meta theory

Indexed keywords

DECISION TABLES; FORMAL LOGIC; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MODAL ANALYSIS;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; FUZZY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODAL LOGIC; THE META-THEORY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33646068060     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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