Set approximations in fuzzy formal concept analysis

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 158, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2627-2640

  Shao, Ming Wen ^a,b   Liu, Min ^a   Zhang, Wen Xiu ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Concept lattice; Formal concept analysis; Fuzzy rough sets; Lower approximation; Rough set; Upper approximation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA MINING; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

CONCEPT LATTICE; FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS; LOWER APPROXIMATION; SET APPROXIMATIONS; UPPER APPROXIMATION;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 34548818749     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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