A taxonomy of granular partitions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2205, Issue , 2001, Pages 28-43

  Bittner, Thomas ^a   Smith, Barry ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY;

FORMAL THEORY; GEO-SPATIAL; O-R MAPPINGS; PARTITION STRUCTURES; SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE; STRUCTURE-PRESERVING; THREE AXES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84937578455     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45424-1_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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