HILK: A new methodology for designing highly interpretable linguistic knowledge bases using the fuzzy logic formalism

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 761-794

  Alonso, José M ^a   Magdalena, Luis ^a   Guillaume, Serge ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

^b UMR ITAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

BENCHMARK CLASSIFICATION; COMPACT SYSTEMS; DESIGN PROCESSES; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; INTEGRATION FRAMEWORKS; INTEGRATION PROCESSES; INTERPRETABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASES; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; LOGIC FORMALISM;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 47049121435     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: 1098111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.20288     Document Type: Article

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