Gradual numbers and their application to fuzzy interval analysis

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 388-402

  Fortin, Jérôme ^a   Dubois, Didier ^a,b   Fargier, Hélène ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Fuzzy element; Fuzzy interval analysis; Gradual real number; Interval arithmetic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMBER THEORY;

FUZZY INTERVAL ANALYSIS; GRADUAL NUMBERS; ZADEH'S EXTENSION PRINCIPLE;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 42549099494     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2006.890680     Document Type: Article

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