A generic methodology for developing fuzzy decision models

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1200-1210

  Bosma, Roel ^a   Van Den Berg, Jan ^b   Kaymak, Uzay ^c   Udo, Henk ^a   Verreth, Johan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Decision making; Expert systems; Fuzzy models; Hierarchical models

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; DECISION MAKING MODELS; FARMING SYSTEM; FEED-BACK LOOP; FUZZY DECISION; FUZZY LOGIC MODEL; FUZZY MODELS; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; HUMAN DECISION-MAKING; HUMAN DRIVERS; MEKONG DELTA; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; STEP METHOD; UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS; VIET NAM;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 81855201992     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.07.126     Document Type: Article

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