Fuzzy approach to the intelligent management of virtual spaces

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 494-508

  Martínez, Jesús Ibáñez ^a   Gómez Skarmeta, Antonio F ^b   Gimeno, Joseph Blat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flexible querying; Intelligent virtual environments; Virtual representation models

Indexed keywords

FUZZY CONTROL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

FLEXIBLE QUERYING; INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL SPACES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33744539383     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.862494     Document Type: Article

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