Dealing with incomplete information in a fuzzy linguistic recommender system to disseminate information in university digital libraries

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-39

  Porcel, C ^a   Herrera Viedma, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy linguistic modeling; Incomplete fuzzy linguistic preference relation; Recommender systems; University digital libraries

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LINGUISTIC MODELING; FUZZY LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATIONS; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; INCOMPLETE FUZZY LINGUISTIC PREFERENCE RELATION; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; INFORMATION ACCESS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; UNIVERSITY DIGITAL LIBRARIES; USER PROFILE;

FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LINGUISTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 70449533851     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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