Entropy of credibility distributions for fuzzy variables

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 123-129

  Li, Pingke ^a   Liu, Baoding ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Credibility; Entropy; Fuzzy variable; Information; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; FUZZY VARIABLES;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

EID: 40549125680     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2007.894975     Document Type: Article

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