Mining fuzzy β-certain and β-possible rules from quantitative data based on the variable precision rough-set model

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 223-232

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

^c NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certain rule; Data mining; Fuzzy set; Possible rule; Quantitative value; Rough set

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

CERTAIN RULE; POSSIBLE RULE; QUANTITATIVE VALUE; ROUGH SETS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748597941     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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