A fuzzy case based reasoning approach to value engineering

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 9334-9339

  Fazel Zarandi, M H ^a   Razaee, Zahra S ^a   Karbasian, M ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy case based reasoning; Fuzzy clustering; Fuzzy data; Value engineering

Indexed keywords

CASE RETRIEVAL; CBR; CLASSIFIED INFORMATION; DESIGN DATA; FUZZY CASE-BASED REASONINGS; FUZZY CLUSTERING MODELS; FUZZY DATA; FUZZY THEORY; NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM; SUBURBAN HIGHWAYS; TIME COMPLEXITY;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; SEARCH ENGINES; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 79953704479     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.124     Document Type: Article

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