On axiomatic characterizations of three pairs of covering based approximation operators

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 274-287

  Zhang, Yan Lan ^a,b   Li, Jinjin ^b   Wu, Wei Zhi ^c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Axioms; Covering based approximation operators; Covering generalized rough sets; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION OPERATORS; AXIOMATIC APPROACH; AXIOMATIC CHARACTERIZATION; AXIOMATIC SYSTEM; AXIOMS; BASIC PROPERTIES; COVERING BASED APPROXIMATION OPERATORS; COVERING GENERALIZED ROUGH SETS; DATA ENGINEERING; EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS; GENERALIZED ROUGH SET; OPEN PROBLEMS; ROUGH SETS;

FUZZY SETS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 70350578667     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.08.031     Document Type: Article

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