Related family: A new method for attribute reduction of covering information systems

Information Sciences

Volumn 228, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-191

  Yang, Tian ^a   Li, Qingguo ^a   Zhou, Bilei ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attribute reduct; Covering; Feature selection; Granular computing; Related family; Rough set

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION SPACES; ATTRIBUTE REDUCT; ATTRIBUTE REDUCTION; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; COVERING; DISCERNIBILITY MATRIX; RELATED FAMILY; ROUGH SET;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRANULAR COMPUTING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 84873129515     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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