Analytical solution methods for the fuzzy weighted average

Information Sciences

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 151-170

  Liu, Xinwang ^a,b   Mendel, Jerry M ^b   Wu, Dongrui ^b,c  

^a Southeast University   (China)

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

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cut method; Analytical solution; Fuzzy weighted average (FWA); Karnik Mendel (KM) algorithm

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; FUZZY WEIGHTED AVERAGE; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 84155172891     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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