F-IND: A framework to design fuzzy indices of environmental conditions

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 485-496

  Marchini, Agnese ^a,b   Facchinetti, Tullio ^b   Mistri, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental conditions; Expert knowledge; Fuzzy logic; Multivariable index

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS;

ABIOTIC VARIABLES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY INDICES; FUZZY MODELS; INTERPRETABILITY; MULTIVARIABLE INDEX; NEW INDICES; OPERATING SYSTEMS; SINGLE VALUES;

FUZZY LOGIC;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 57749107702     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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