Evaluating students' learning achievement using fuzzy membership functions and fuzzy rules

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 399-410

  Bai, Shih Ming ^a   Chen, Shyi Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy grading systems; Fuzzy reasoning; Grade membership functions; Students' evaluation

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GRADING; STUDENTS;

FUZZY GRADING SYSTEMS; FUZZY REASONING; GRADE MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; STUDENTS' EVALUATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248571380     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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