Determining an optimal membership function based on community consensus in a fuzzy database system

Proceedings of the Annual Southeast Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 632-637

  Cunningham, Joanne ^a  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; Fuzzy database; Fuzzy logic; Membership function; Modifier; Relational database

Indexed keywords

DIRECT RATING AND WEIGHTED AVERAGE METHODS; FUZZY DATABASE; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; MODIFIER;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248338297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1185448.1185587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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