Fuzzy methods for case-based recommendation and decision support

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-115

  Dubois, Didier ^a   Hüllermeier, Eyke ^b   Prade, Henri ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximate reasoning; Case based reasoning; Decision making; Fuzzy sets; Nearest neighbor estimation; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

APPROXIMATE REASONING; CASE-BASED REASONING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ESTIMATION; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33748528971     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: 15737675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10844-006-0976-x     Document Type: Article

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