Regranulation: A granular algorithm enabling communication between granular worlds

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 408-435

  Dick, Scott ^a   Schenker, Adam ^b   Pedrycz, Witold ^a   Kandel, Abraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy systems; Granular algorithms; Granular computing; Granular worlds

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERPOLATION; LINGUISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY SYSTEMS; GRANULAR ALGORITHMS; GRANULAR COMPUTING; GRANULAR WORLDS; LINGUISTIC ARITHMETIC;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33750318838     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.03.020     Document Type: Article

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