Communication between information systems with covering based rough sets

Information Sciences

Volumn 216, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-33

  Wang, Changzhong ^a   Chen, Degang ^b   Sun, Baiqing ^c   Hu, Qinghua ^c  

^a BOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Attribute reduction; Consistent function; Covering based rough set; Covering mapping; Homomorphism

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE REDUCTION; BASIC PROPERTIES; DECISION SYSTEMS; HOMOMORPHISM; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET; SET APPROXIMATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; GRANULAR COMPUTING; MAPPING; ROUGH SET THEORY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864669046     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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