An illustration of variable precision rough sets model: An analysis of the findings of the UK Monopolies and Mergers Commission

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1739-1759

  Beynon, Malcolm J ^a   Driffield, Nigel ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Monopolies policy; Object classification; Rule construction; Variable precision rough sets model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION TREES; MONOPOLIES POLICY; OBJECT CLASSIFICATION; RULE CONSTRUCTION; VARIABLE PRECISION ROUGH SETS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 9644303228     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2003.11.031     Document Type: Article

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