On the suitability of the Bandler-Kohout subproduct as an inference mechanism

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-298

  Štěpnička, Martin ^a   Jayaram, Balasubramaniam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Bandler Kohout (BK) subproduct; Compositional rule of inference (CRI); Correctness and continuity of inference; Fuzzy relational equations; Fuzzy relational inference (FRI) systems; Hierarchical CRI

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE REASONING; COMPOSITIONAL RULE OF INFERENCES; FUZZY RELATIONAL EQUATIONS; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; INFERENCE MECHANISM;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 77950669095     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2010.2041007     Document Type: Article

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