Communication between information systems using fuzzy rough sets

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 527-540

  Tsang, E C C ^a   Wang, Changzhong ^b   Chen, Degang ^c   Wu, Congxin ^d   Hu, Qinghua ^e  

^a MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^b BOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attribute reduction; fuzzy relation mappings; fuzzy rough sets; homomorphism; information systems

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE REDUCTION; FUZZY RELATIONS; FUZZY-ROUGH SETS; HOMOMORPHISM; IMAGE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; FUZZY SETS; GRANULAR COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 84878707398     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2012.2218658     Document Type: Article

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