Granular Transformation and Irreducible Element Judgment Theory Based on Pictorial Diagrams

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 380-387

  Wei, Ling ^a   Wan, Qing ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arrow relations; formal concept; granular computing (GrC); join(meet) irreducible elements; pictorial diagrams.

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA HANDLING; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ARROW-RELATION; CONCEPT LATTICES; EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS; FORMAL CONCEPTS; FORMAL CONTEXTS; KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING; OBJECT-ORIENTED CONCEPTS; PROPERTY- ORIENTED CONCEPT LATTICES;

FORMAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84913614543     PISSN: 21682267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2014.2371476     Document Type: Article

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