Using Gaussian membership functions for improving the reliability and robustness of students' evaluation systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 7135-7142

  Hameed, Ibrahim A ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Educational evaluation; Gaussian; Robustness

Indexed keywords

DEFUZZIFICATIONS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION; EVALUATION SYSTEM; FUZZIFICATIONS; GAUSSIAN MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; GAUSSIANS; RELIABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS; RELIABLE SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS; STUDENT EVALUATION; TIME-RATE;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUZZY INFERENCE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; STUDENTS;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

EID: 79951576511     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.12.048     Document Type: Article

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