Fuzzy spatial relations between vague regions

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 221-226

  Schockaert, Steven ^a   Cornelis, Chris ^a   De Cock, Martine ^a   Kerre, Etienne E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Approximate equality; Fuzzy relation; Region connection calculus; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SET THEORY; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

(PL) PROPERTIES; FUZZY RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL (CO); REAL WORLD; REGION CONNECTION CALCULUS (RCC); SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL REASONING; SPATIAL RELATIONS (SR); SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; VAGUE REGIONS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 36448966074     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/IS.2006.348421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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