Solving Zadeh's Magnus challenge problem on linguistic probabilities via Linguistic Weighted Averages

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2177-2184

  Rajati, Mohammad Reza ^a   Mendel, Jerry M ^a   Wu, Dongrui ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing with words; interval type 2 fuzzy sets; linguistic weighted average; lower and upper probabilities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING WITH WORDS; INTERVAL TYPE-2 FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTIC WEIGHTED AVERAGE; LOWER AND UPPER PROBABILITIES; PROBLEM STATEMENT;

FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053084089     PISSN: 10987584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2011.6007614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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