Evaluating students' answerscripts using fuzzy numbers associated with degrees of confidence

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 403-415

  Wang, Hui Yu ^a   Chen, Shyi Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Degrees of confidence; Fuzzy grade sheets; Fuzzy numbers; Generalized fuzzy grade sheets; Satisfaction levels

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMBER THEORY;

FUZZY NUMBERS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 42549109115     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2007.895958     Document Type: Article

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