A self-adapting fuzzy inference system for the evaluation of agricultural land

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 226-234

  Liu, Yaolin ^a   Jiao, Limin ^a   Liu, Yanfang ^a   He, Jianhua ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural land evaluation; Cross validation; Fuzzy inference system; Genetic algorithm; Self adapting

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CROSS VALIDATION; CROSSOVER AND MUTATION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; EVALUATION CRITERIA SYSTEMS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY INFERENCE MODEL; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; FUZZY LINGUISTICS; FUZZY LOGIC MODELING; INFERENCE RULES; ITS EVALUATION; LAND EVALUATION; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; OPTIMIZED EVALUATION; OVERFITTING; SELF ADAPTING; SELF-ADAPTING SYSTEMS; SELF-LEARNING; STUDY AREAS; TRAINING SETS;

CHROMOSOMES; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CALIBRATION; CHROMOSOME; EXPERT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84871813519     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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