Role of Certainty Factor in Generating Rough-fuzzy Rule

The generation of effective feature-based rules is essential to the development of any intelligent system. This paper presents an approach that integrates a powerful fuzzy rule generation algorithm with a rough set-assisted feature reduction method to generate diagnostic rule with a certainty factor. Certainty factor of each rule is calculated by considering both the membership value of each linguistic term introduced at time of fuzzyfication of data as well as possibility values, due to inconsistent data, generated by rough set theory at time of rule generation. In time of knowledge inferencing in an intelligent system, certainty factor of each rule will play an important role to find out the appropriate rule to be selected. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our approach.