On generalized rough fuzzy approximation operators

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4100 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 263-284

  Wu, Wei Zhi ^a   Leung, Yee ^b   Zhang, Wen Xiu ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation operators; Belief functions; Binary relations; Fuzzy sets; Fuzzy topological spaces; Neighborhood systems; Rough fuzzy sets; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; ROUGH SET THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

APPROXIMATION OPERATORS; BELIEF FUNCTIONS; BINARY RELATIONS; FUZZY TOPOLOGICAL SPACES; NEIGHBORHOOD SYSTEMS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 38349003447     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11847465_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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