Defining fuzzy relationships in object models: abstraction and interpretation

✍ Scribed by Valerie V. Cross

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 140
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0114
• DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0114(03)00025-3

✦ Synopsis

Many researchers have developed proposals for integrating fuzzy set theory into the knowledge representation methods used in conceptual data modeling. A primary objective of data modeling is to describe concepts and the relationships among the concepts. The basic relationships deÿned among the concepts are associated with general abstraction principles. These abstraction principles are examined. Several proposals for fuzzy extensions to these abstraction principles are reviewed. Recommendations for the application of fuzzy set theory in a generalized object model are made based on the abstraction principles and a review of proposals for fuzzy object models.