A method for computing all maximally general rules in attribute-value systems

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 223-234

  Ziarko, Wojciech ^a   Shan, Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Knowledge discovery; Machine learning; Rough sets; Rules

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATTRIBUTE VALUE SYSTEMS; DECISION FUNCTION; DECISION MATRIX; VARIABLE PRECISION ROUGH SETS MODEL;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030141552     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.1996.tb00260.x     Document Type: Article

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