Transparent linguistic interface generation and its application in fuzzy decision trees

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1337-1342

  Chen, Long ^a   Chen, C L Philip ^a  

^a University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; FCM; Fuzzy decision trees; Linguistic interface; Membership function; Transparency

Indexed keywords

CIVIL PROJECTS; CLUSTERING; COMPUTING WITH WORDS; FCM; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; FUZZY DECISION TREES; FUZZY MODELING; HISTORICAL DATA; INTERFACE GENERATION; LINGUISTIC TERMS; LOCAL OPTIMALITY; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTROL THEORY; COPYING; CYBERNETICS; DECISION TREES; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GRANULAR COMPUTING; LINGUISTICS; MICROCONTROLLERS; TRANSPARENCY;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY LOGIC; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPARENCE;

EID: 69949160392     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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