Distance: A more comprehensible perspective for measures in rough set theory

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 27, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-136

  Liang, Jiye ^a,b   Li, Ru ^a,b   Qian, Yuhua ^a,b  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Information granularity; Measures; Partition distance; Rough set theory; Set distance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; APPROXIMATION QUALITY; EVALUATION CRITERIA; FUZZINESS MEASURE; INCLUSION DEGREES; INFORMATION GRANULARITY; INFORMATION MEASURES; LOOK-FORWARD; MEASURES; METRIC SPACES; ROUGH SET; ROUGH SET APPROXIMATION; SET DISTANCE;

DECISION THEORY;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 84855971600     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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