Rules versus hierarchy: An application of fuzzy set theory to the assessment of spatial grouping techniques

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5495 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 517-526

  Watts, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Closure; Fuzzy sets; Interaction; MAUP

Indexed keywords

CLOSURE; EU COUNTRIES; FLOW DATA; GROUPING ALGORITHM; GROUPING TECHNIQUE; HIERARCHICAL TECHNIQUES; INTERACTION; MAUP;

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 78650742279     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04921-7_53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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