Semantic decision making using ontology-based soft sets

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 53, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 1140-1149

  Jiang, Yuncheng ^a,b   Liu, Hai ^a   Tang, Yong ^a   Chen, Qimai ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

Author keywords

Description logics; Ontology based soft sets; Query; Semantic decision making; Soft sets

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; EXPRESSIVE POWER; IMPLEMENTATION METHODS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; ONTOLOGY-BASED; QUERY; SOFT SETS; USER QUERY;

DATA DESCRIPTION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 78751625144     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2010.11.080     Document Type: Article

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