Issues in the practical use of the OWA operators in fuzzy querying

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 307-325

  Zadrożny, Sławomir ^a   Kacprzyk, Janusz ^a  

^a SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Database querying; Flexible querying; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy querying; Linguistic quantifiers; OWA operators

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; LINGUISTICS;

DATABASE QUERYING; FLEXIBLE QUERYING; FUZZY QUERYING; LINGUISTIC QUANTIFIERS; OWA OPERATORS;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 70450267828     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: 15737675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10844-008-0068-1     Document Type: Article

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