Uncertainty modelling for vague concepts: A prototype theory approach

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 173, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1539-1558

  Lawry, Jonathan ^a   Tang, Yongchuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epistemic vagueness; Label semantics; Prototype theory; Random sets

Indexed keywords

EPISTEMIC VAGUENESS; FUNCTIONAL CALCULUS; GENERAL MODEL; LABEL SEMANTICS; PROTOTYPE THEORY; RANDOM SETS; UNCERTAINTY MODELLING;

LABELS; SEMANTICS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 70350566796     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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