The development of fuzzy rough sets with the use of structures and algebras of axiomatic fuzzy sets

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 443-462

  Liu, Xiaodong ^a,b   Pedrycz, Witold ^c,d   Chai, Tianyou ^e   Song, Mingli ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AFS algebras; AFS structures; Fuzzy rough sets; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

AFS ALGEBRAS; AFS STRUCTURES; AXIOMATIC FUZZY SETS; DATA ANALYSIS; FUZZY CONCEPT; FUZZY ROUGH SETS; IMPLICATION OPERATORS; IMPLICATOR; ROUGH APPROXIMATIONS; ROUGH SET; ROUGH SETS; SIMILARITY RELATIONS; T - NORM; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

ALGEBRA; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 64249098723     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2008.147     Document Type: Article

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