Uncertainty measurement for interval-valued information systems

Information Sciences

Volumn 251, Issue , 2013, Pages 63-78

  Dai, Jianhua ^a,b   Wang, Wentao ^a   Mi, Ju Sheng ^b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Lab of Computational Mathematics and Applications   (China)

^c HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Interval data; Interval valued information systems; Rough set theory; Roughness; Similarity degree; Uncertainty measure

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED MODELS; INTERVAL DATA; INTERVAL-VALUED; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SIMILARITY DEGREE; SIMILARITY RELATIONS; UNCERTAINTY MEASUREMENTS; UNCERTAINTY MEASURES;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883209969     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.06.047     Document Type: Article

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