The approximation set of a vague set in rough approximation space

Information Sciences

Volumn 300, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-19

  Zhang, Qinghua ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Wang, Guoyin ^a   Yu, Hong ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation set; Fuzzy set; Granular computing; Rough set; Similarity; Vague set

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GRANULAR COMPUTING; SET THEORY;

APPROXIMATION SET; APPROXIMATION SPACES; COGNITIVE MECHANISMS; KNOWLEDGE GRANULARITY; MULTI-GRANULARITY; ROUGH APPROXIMATION SPACE; SIMILARITY; VAGUE SETS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 84961289876     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.12.023     Document Type: Article

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