Foundations of near sets

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3091-3109

  Peters, James F ^a   Wasilewski, Piotr ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Affinities; Image analysis; Near set; Perceptual system; Slash lattice

Indexed keywords

AFFINITIES; FORMAL FOUNDATION; NEAR SET; PERCEPTUAL INFORMATION; PERCEPTUAL OBJECTS; PERCEPTUAL SYSTEM; PHYSICAL WORLD; SLASH LATTICE; STEPPING STONE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SET THEORY;

GRANULATION;

EID: 67649791986     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.04.018     Document Type: Article

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