ON the role of interpretability in fuzzy data mining

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 521-537

  Mencar, Corrado ^a   Castellano, Giovanna ^a   Fanelli, Anna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comprehensibility postulate; Fuzzy data; Interpretability; Mining

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

COMPREHENSIBILITY POSTULATES; FUZZY DATA; INTERPRETABILITY;

DATA MINING;

EID: 35348924408     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488507004856     Document Type: Article

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