Fuzzy set theory—and its applications (3rd ed.)
Fuzzy set theory—and its applications (3rd ed.)
Data mining using extensions of the rough set model
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: knowledge discovery and data mining
A rough set approach to attribute generalization in data mining
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming
Reasoning with Incomplete Information: Rough Set Based Information Logics
Proceedings of the SOFTEKS Workshop on Incompleteness and Uncertainty in Information Systems
Knowledge acquisition from quantitative data using the rough-set theory
Intelligent Data Analysis
An application of fuzzy information granulation in the emerging area of online sports
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Fuzzy rough set based attribute reduction for information systems with fuzzy decisions
Knowledge-Based Systems
Fuzzy-rough nearest neighbour classification and prediction
Theoretical Computer Science
Multi knowledge based rough approximations and applications
Knowledge-Based Systems
Dominance-based rough set model in intuitionistic fuzzy information systems
Knowledge-Based Systems
Bipolar fuzzy rough set model on two different universes and its application
Knowledge-Based Systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Knowledge reduction for decision tables with attribute value taxonomies
Knowledge-Based Systems
Multi-level rough set reduction for decision rule mining
Applied Intelligence
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Machine learning can extract desired knowledge and ease the development bottleneck in building expert systems. Among the proposed approaches, deriving classification rules from training examples is the most common. Given a set of examples, a learning program tries to induce rules that describe each class. The rough-set theory has served as a good mathematical tool for dealing with data classification problems. It adopts the concept of equivalence classes to partition training instances according to some criteria. In the past, we thus proposed a fuzzy-rough approach to produce a set of certain and possible rules from quantitative data. Attributes are, however, usually organized into hierarchy in real applications. This paper thus extends our previous approach to deal with the problem of producing a set of cross-level maximally general fuzzy certain and possible rules from examples with hierarchical and quantitative attributes. The proposed approach combines the rough-set theory and the fuzzy-set theory to learn. It is more complex than learning from single-level values, but may derive more general knowledge from data. Fuzzy boundary approximations, instead of upper approximations, are used to find possible rules, thus reducing some subsumption checking. Some pruning heuristics are adopted in the proposed algorithm to avoid unnecessary search. A simple example is also given to illustrate the proposed approach.