Category-Based Inductive Reasoning: Rough Set Theoretic Approach

  • Authors:
  • Marcin Wolski

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Logic and Methodology of Science, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Rough Sets IX
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The present paper is concerned with rough set theory (RST) and a particular approach to human-like induction, namely similarity coverage model (SCM). It redefines basic concepts of RST --- such like e.g. a decision rule, accuracy and coverage of decision rules --- in the light of SCM and explains how RST may be viewed as a similarity-based model of human-like inductive reasoning. Furthermore, following the knowledge-based theory of induction, we enrich RST by the concept of an ontology and, in consequence, we present an RST-driven conceptualisation of SCM. The paper also discusses a topological representation of information systems in terms of non-Archimedean structures. It allows us to present an ontology-driven interpretation of finite non-Archimedean nearness spaces and, to some extent, to complete recent papers about RST and the topological concepts of nearness.