A historical account of types of fuzzy sets and their relationships

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 179-194

  Bustince, Humberto ^a   Barrenechea, Edurne ^a   Pagola, Miguel ^a   Fernandez, Javier ^a   Xu, Zeshui ^b   Bedregal, Benjamin ^c   Montero, Javier ^d   Hagras, Hani ^e   Herrera, Francisco ^f   De Baets, Bernard ^g  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b Department of Management Science and System Science   (China)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Interval valued fuzzy set; Set valued fuzzy set; Type 2 fuzzy set

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT; INTERVAL-VALUED FUZZY SETS; SET-VALUED; TYPE-2 FUZZY SET;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 84962091537     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2015.2451692     Document Type: Article

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