Table 10 Referential values of flow difference.

From: A novel optimization method for belief rule base expert system with activation rate

Linguistic terms

Negative large

Negative medium

\({\text{Negative}}\,{\text{ small}}\)

\({\text{Negative }}\,{\text{very}}\,{\text{ small}}\)

Values

− 10

− 5

− 3

− 1

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\({\text{Zero}}\)

\({\text{Positive}}\,{\text{ small}}\)

\({\text{Positive }}\,{\text{medium}}\)

\({\text{Positive }}\,{\text{large}}\)

Values

0

1

2

3