A novel soft set approach in selecting clustering attribute

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 139-145

  Qin, Hongwu ^a,b   Ma, Xiuqin ^a,b   Zain, Jasni Mohamad ^a   Herawan, Tutut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

^b NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clustering attribute; Information system; Rough set; Soft set

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE SETS; BENCHMARK DATASETS; CATEGORICAL DATASETS; CLUSTERING ATTRIBUTE; DATA CLUSTERING; DATA MINING PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; ROUGH SET; SOFT SETS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84867891890     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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