Bipartite graphs and coverings

  • Authors:
  • Shiping Wang;William Zhu;Fan Min

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China;Lab of Granular Computing, Zhangzhou Normal University, Zhangzhou, China;Lab of Granular Computing, Zhangzhou Normal University, Zhangzhou, China

  • Venue:
  • RSKT'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Rough sets and knowledge technology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In many real world applications, data are organized by coverings, instead of partitions. Covering-based rough sets have been proposed to cope with this type of data. Covering-based rough set theory is more general than rough set theory, then there is a need to employ sophisticated theories to make it more adaptive to applications. Covering is one of core concepts in covering-based rough sets, and it is urgent to connect coverings with other data models. This paper establishes the relationship between coverings and bipartite graphs. Through its index set, a covering induces some isomorphic bipartite graphs. Conversely, a bipartite graph induces a covering of the set of vertices. These inductions are converse with each other.