A multifaceted perspective at data analysis: A study in collaborative intelligent agents

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1062-1072

  Pedrycz, Witold ^a,b   Rai, Partab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Collaborative agents; Data analysis; Fuzzy clustering; Information granules

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC SHIP EQUIPMENT; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GRANULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MECHANISMS; OPTIMIZATION; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES; COLLABORATIVE AGENTS; COLLECTION OF AGENTS; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING; FUZZY GRANULATION; GLOBAL VIEWS; INFORMATION GRANULES; LOCAL OPTIMIZATIONS; MACHINE LEARNING REPOSITORY; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION SCHEMES; PARTIAL SOLUTIONS; SYNTHETIC DATA;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 49049119294     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2008.925728     Document Type: Article

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