Deriving minimal solutions for fuzzy relation equations with max-product composition

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3766-3774

  Shieh, Bih Sheue ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continuous t norm; Fuzzy relation equation; Max product composition; Minimal solutions; NP hard problem; Solvability

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; SET THEORY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

COVERING PROBLEMS; ELSEVIER (CO); FUZZY RELATION EQUATIONS; MAX PRODUCT COMPOSITION; MINIMAL SOLUTIONS; NOVEL METHODS; NP-HARD; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS; SOME APPLICATIONS;

SOLUTIONS;

EID: 47849085873     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.05.030     Document Type: Article

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