Transparent decision support using statistical reasoning and fuzzy inference

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1125-1137

  Hamilton Wright, Andrew ^a,b   Stashuk, Daniel W ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision support; Fuzzy Inference systems; Fuzzy rule based classification systems; Human centered computing; Pattern discovery; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; FUZZY RULE-BASED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING; PATTERN DISCOVERY;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33746369441     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2006.132     Document Type: Review

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