Data mining by attribute generalization with fuzzy hierarchies in fuzzy databases

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 160, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2206-2223

  Petry, Frederick E ^a   Zhao, Lei ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute oriented generalization; Data mining; Fuzzy databases; Fuzzy hierarchy

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE-ORIENTED GENERALIZATION; DATA GENERALIZATIONS; FUZZY DATABASES; FUZZY HIERARCHY; FUZZY INFORMATIONS; INDUCTION PROCESS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MINING; SOFT COMPUTING;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 67349225425     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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