Fuzzy sets defined on a hierarchical domain

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1397-1410

  Thomopoulos, Rallou ^a   Buche, Patrice ^b   Haemmerlé, Ollivier ^c  

^a UMR IATE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

"Fuzzy" and probabilistic reasoning; Fuzzy set; Knowledge retrieval; Object hierarchies; Relaxation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

"FUZZY" AND PROBABILISTIC REASONING; KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL; OBJECT HIERARCHIES; RELAXATION; UNCERTAINTY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33748373191     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2006.161     Document Type: Article

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