Novel Weighted Averages versus Normalized Sums in Computing with Words

Information Sciences

Volumn 235, Issue , 2013, Pages 130-149

  Rajati, Mohammad Reza ^a   Mendel, Jerry M ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing with Words; Fuzzy Weighted Average; Interactivity; Interval Weighted Average; Linguistic Weighted Average; Novel Weighted Average

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING WITH WORD (CWW); FUZZY WEIGHTED AVERAGE; INTERACTIVITY; LINGUISTIC WEIGHTED AVERAGE; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

FUZZY SETS; SOFT COMPUTING;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 84875930501     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.12.022     Document Type: Article

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