Fuzzy qualitative link analysis for academic performance evaluation

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 559-585

  Boongoen, Tossapon ^a   Shen, Qiang ^a   Price, Chris ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic performance evaluation; fuzzy sets; link analysis; order of magnitude reasoning

Indexed keywords

FUZZY INFERENCE;

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; DATA DRIVEN; FUZZY RULE INDUCTION; FUZZY TECHNIQUES; LINK ANALYSIS; ORDER-OF-MAGNITUDE REASONING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCES EVALUATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 79955793669     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488511007131     Document Type: Article

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