Other types of aggregation and additional properties

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 221, Issue , 2007, Pages 297-304

  Beliakov, Gleb ^a   Pradera, Ana ^b   Calvo, Tomasa ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologia   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

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EID: 34548787389     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73721-6_7     Document Type: Article

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