Fuzzy inference system to analyze ordinal variables: The case of evaluating teaching activity

FCTA 2014 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 25-36

  Lalla, Michele ^a   Ferrari, Davide ^b   Pirotti, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defuzzification; Fuzzification; Likert scale; Ordinal scales; Student evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

DEFUZZIFICATIONS; FUZZIFICATIONS; LIKERT SCALE; ORDINAL SCALE; STUDENT EVALUATION;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 84908699480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0005054400250036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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