Fuzzy and rough formal concept analysis: A survey

International Journal of General Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 105-134

  Poelmans, Jonas ^a,b   Ignatov, Dmitry I ^b   Kuznetsov, Sergei O ^b   Dedene, Guido ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

exploratory data analysis; formal concept analysis (FCA); fuzzy attributes; information retrieval; knowledge discovery in databases; rough sets; systematic literature overview; text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893929838     PISSN: 03081079     EISSN: 15635104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081079.2013.862377     Document Type: Article

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