A novel approach to fuzzy rough sets based on a fuzzy covering

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2308-2326

  Deng, Tingquan ^a,c   Chen, Yanmei ^b   Xu, Wenli ^c   Dai, Qionghai ^c  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adjunction; Complete lattice; Conjunction; Fuzzy covering; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy rough approximations; Implication; Morphological operators; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUZZY LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

FUZZY COVERING; FUZZY IMPLICATION; LATTICE THEORY; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33947261538     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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