Fuzzy SOFM and its application to the classification of plant communities in the taihang mountains of China

Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 254-259

  Zhang, Jin Tun ^a   Li, Suqing ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering; Fuzzy relationship; Neural network; Plant community; Quantitative method

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLUSTERING; ECOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; FUZZY RELATIONSHIP; FUZZY SIMILARITY MATRIX; PLANT COMMUNITIES; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SELF-ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP;

ECOLOGY; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 78149329993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8735-6_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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