Fuzzy Granular Structure Distance

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2245-2259

  Qian, Yuhua ^a   Li, Yebin ^a   Liang, Jiye ^a   Lin, Guoping ^b   Dang, Chuangyin ^c  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fuzzy granular structure distance; Fuzzy information entropy; Fuzzy information granularity; Granular computing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FUZZY SETS; GRANULAR COMPUTING;

AXIOMATIC APPROACH; EXISTING FORMS; FUZZY INFORMATION; GRANULAR STRUCTURESS; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; PARTIAL ORDER RELATION; REAL-WORLD DATASETS;

INFORMATION GRANULES;

EID: 84960098529     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2015.2417893     Document Type: Article

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