A new approach for fuzzy information retrieval based on weighted power-mean averaging operators

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1800-1819

  Hong, Won Sin ^a   Chen, Shi Jay ^b   Wang, Li Hui ^c   Chen, Shyi Ming ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHIHLEE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extended WPMA operators; Fuzzy information retrieval; Fuzzy query; Power mean; WPMA operators

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

FUZZY INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; FUZZY QUERY; POWER MEAN; WPMA OPERATORS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 34249905625     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2006.04.033     Document Type: Article

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