Computing with words and its relationships with fuzzistics

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 988-1006

  Mendel, Jerry M ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computing with words; Fuzzistics; Interval type 2 fuzzy sets; Inverse problems; Type 2 fuzzy sets

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA ACQUISITION; FUZZY SETS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING WITH WORDS; FUZZISTICS; INTERVAL TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS; TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 33751254756     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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