In many fields, especially in environmetrics and social sciences, it is impossible to obtain exact quantitative data about a variable of interest. Many researchers have suggested that vague, non-precise observations should be described by fuzzy sets. Fuzzy set theory originated by Zadeh (1965) relies on ordering relations that express intensity (degree) of membership of an object in a set. Appl...

This paper presents a comparative study of concept lattices of fuzzy contexts based on formal concept analysis and rough set theory. It is known that every complete fuzzy lattice can be represented as the concept lattice of a fuzzy context based on formal concept analysis [R. Bělohlávek, Concept lattices and order in fuzzy logic, Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 128 (2004) 277–298]. This paper shows that ...

$L$-fuzzy rough sets are extensions of the classical rough sets by relaxing theequivalence relations to $L$-relations. The topological structures induced by$L$-fuzzy rough sets have opened up the way for applications of topological factsand methods in granular computing. In this paper, we firstly prove thateach arbitrary $L$-relation can generate an Alexandrov $L$-topology.Based on this fact, w...

Fuzzy rough set method provides an effective approach to data mining and knowledge discovery from hybrid data including categorical values and numerical values. However, its time-consumption is very intolerable to analyze data sets with large scale and high dimensionality. Many heuristic fuzzy-rough feature selection algorithms have been developed however, quite often, these methods are still c...

The problem of imperfect knowledge under uncertain environments has been tackled for a long time by philosophers, logicians and mathematicians. Rough set theory proposed by Zdzislaw Pawlak [1] has attracted attention of many researchers and practitioners all over the world, and has a fast growing group of researchers interested in this methodology. Fuzzy set theory proposed by Lotfi Zadeh [2] h...

While desi ning radial basis function neural networks for classification, kzzy clustering is often used to position the hidden nodes in the input space. The main assumption of the clustering is that similar inputs produce similar out uts. In other words, it means that any two in ut patterns t o m the same cluster must be from the same cfass. Generalization is possible in the radial basis functi...

This paper first presents a simple explanation for the min/max bounds which are used in interval probability theory ( I n ) [l], possibility theory [2], fuzzy rough sets [4], and vague logic [ 5 ] . Based on this definition, a computable version of first-order fuzzy logic is defined, where all of the upper bounds for instances of a theorem and its negation are guaranteed to eventually be listed...

Different components of soft computing (e.g., fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, rough sets and genetic algorithms) and machine intelligence, and their relevance to pattern recognition and data mining are explained. Characteristic features of these tools are described conceptually. Various ways of integrating these tools for application specific merits are described. Tasks like case (prot...

Algebraic structures and lattice structures of rough sets are basic and important topics in rough sets theory. In this paper we pointed out that a basic problem had been overlooked, that is the closeness of union and intersection operations of rough approximation pairs, i.e. (lower approximation, upper approximation). We present that the union and intersection operations of rough approximation ...

This paper examines two interval based uncertain reasoning methods, one is based on interval fuzzy sets, and the other is based on rough sets. The notion of interval triangular norms is introduced. Basic issues on the use of t-norms for approximate reasoning with interval fuzzy sets are addressed. Inference rules are given for using both numeric intervals and lattice based intervals. The theory...