Relationships between covering-based rough sets and relation-based rough sets

Information Sciences

Volumn 225, Issue , 2013, Pages 55-71

  Zhang, Yan Lan ^a,b   Luo, Mao Kang ^b  

^a MINNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Binary relation; Covering; Covering based approximation operator; Covering based rough set; Relation based rough set

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION OPERATORS; BINARY RELATION; COVERING; ROUGH SET; SUFFICIENT AND NECESSARY CONDITION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 84871359715     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.10.018     Document Type: Article

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