Knowledge acquisition from quantitative data using the rough-set theory

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 289-304

  Hong, Tzung Pei ^a   Wang, Tzu Ting ^a   Wang, Shyue Liang ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

certain rule; data mining; fuzzy set; knowledge acquisition; possible rule; quantitative value; rough set

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

CERTAIN RULE; DATA CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; FUZZY APPROXIMATION; LOWER APPROXIMATION; POSSIBLE RULE; QUANTITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE VALUES; UPPER APPROXIMATION;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 0000742181     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2000-43-409     Document Type: Article

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