AN EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT OF IMPRECISE SOIL DATABASES BY MEANS OF FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES AND FUZZY APPROXIMATE DEPENDENCIES

J. Calero, G. Delgado, M. Sánchez-Marañón, D. Sánchez, M. A. Vila, J. M. Serrano

2004

Abstract

In this work, we start from a database built with soil information from heterogeneous scientific sources (Local Soil Databases, LSDB). We call this an Aggregated Soil Database (ASDB). We are interested in determining if knowledge obtained by means of fuzzy association rules or fuzzy approximate dependencies can represent adequately expert knowledge for a soil scientific, familiarized with the study zone. A master relation between two soil attributes was selected and studied by the expert, in both ASDB and LSDB. Obtained results reveal that knowledge extracted by means of fuzzy data mining tools is significatively better than crisp one. Moreover, it is highly satisfactory from the soil scientific expert’s point of view, since it manages with more flexibility imprecision factors (IFASDB) commonly related to this type of information.

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Calero J., Delgado G., Sánchez-Marañón M., Sánchez D., A. Vila M. and M. Serrano J. (2004). AN EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT OF IMPRECISE SOIL DATABASES BY MEANS OF FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES AND FUZZY APPROXIMATE DEPENDENCIES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 138-146. DOI: 10.5220/0002653601380146


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@conference{iceis04,
author={J. Calero and G. Delgado and M. Sánchez-Marañón and D. Sánchez and M. A. Vila and J. M. Serrano},
title={AN EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT OF IMPRECISE SOIL DATABASES BY MEANS OF FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES AND FUZZY APPROXIMATE DEPENDENCIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={138-146},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002653601380146},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - AN EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT OF IMPRECISE SOIL DATABASES BY MEANS OF FUZZY ASSOCIATION RULES AND FUZZY APPROXIMATE DEPENDENCIES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Calero J.
AU - Delgado G.
AU - Sánchez-Marañón M.
AU - Sánchez D.
AU - A. Vila M.
AU - M. Serrano J.
PY - 2004
SP - 138
EP - 146
DO - 10.5220/0002653601380146