A fuzzy rule based framework for noise annoyance modeling

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 114; no. 3; p. 1487
• Main Authors: Botteldooren, Dick, Verkeyn, Andy, Lercher, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.09.2003
• Subjects: Attitude; Austria; Belgium; Female; Fuzzy Logic; Health Surveys; Humans; Individuality; Male; Models, Statistical; Noise - adverse effects; Social Environment; Urbanization; Belgium; Austria

Predicting the effect of noise on individual people and small groups is an extremely difficult task due to the influence of a multitude of factors that vary from person to person and from context to context. Moreover, noise annoyance is inherently a vague concept. That is why, in this paper, it is a...