Modeling and processing measurement uncertainty within the theory of evidence: Mathematics of random-fuzzy variables

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 704-716

  Ferrero, Alessandro ^a   Salicone, Simona ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy averaging operators; Measurement uncertainty; Random contributions; Random fuzzy variables (RFVs); Systematic contributions; Theory of evidence; Uncertainty processing; Unknown contributions

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM VARIABLES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; RANDOM CONTRIBUTION; RANDOM-FUZZY VARIABLES; SYSTEMATIC CONTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY PROCESSING; UNKNOWN CONTRIBUTION;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 34249055861     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.894907     Document Type: Article

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