On the extraction of decision support rules from fuzzy predictive models

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3463-3475

  Castro, Félix ^a   Nebot, Àngela ^b   Mugica, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; Fuzzy inductive reasoning; Fuzzy logic; Global heat; Iris; Pima Indian Diabetes; Rule extraction; Virtual campus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOURS; FUZZY INDUCTIVE REASONING; GLOBAL HEAT; IRIS; PIMA INDIAN DIABETES; RULE EXTRACTION; VIRTUAL CAMPUS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING; FIR FILTERS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; TUMORS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 79954603817     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.01.018     Document Type: Article

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