Self-organizing feature map clustering based on fuzzy equivalence relation and its application in ecological analysis

Proceedings - 2011 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 877-881

  Zhang, Jin Tun ^a   Li, Ming ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fuzzy equivalence relation; Fuzzy similarity; neural network; quantitative classification; vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL STUDIES; FUZZY EQUIVALENCE; FUZZY EQUIVALENCE RELATION; FUZZY EQUIVALENCE RELATION MATRIX; FUZZY SIMILARITY; FUZZY SIMILARITY MATRIX; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SELF-ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP; VEGETATION COMMUNITY;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ECOLOGY; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; VEGETATION;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 80053394858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FSKD.2011.6019727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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