Granular structure plays a very important role in the model construction, theoretical analysis and algorithm design of a granular computing method. The granular structures of classical rough sets and fuzzy rough sets have been proven to be clear. In classical rough set theory, equivalence classes are basic granules, and the lower and upper approximations of a set can be computed by those basic ...

Rough set theory has attracted much attention in modeling with imprecise and incomplete information. A generalized approximation space, called fuzzy probability approximation space has been proposed by introducing probability into fuzzy approximation space. The novel definition combines three types of uncertainty into a model. Information or knowledge is considered as a partition of the univers...

This paper deals with multi- objective nonlinear programming problem having rough intervals in the constraints. The problem is approached by taking maximum value range and minimum value range inequalities as constraints conditions, reduces it into two classical multi-objective nonlinear programming problems, called lower and upper approximation problems.  All of the lower and upper approximatio...

The concept of an M-approximative system is introduced. Basic properties of the category of M-approximative systems and in a natural way defined morphisms between them are studied. It is shown that categories related to fuzzy topology as well as categories related to rough sets can be described as special subcategories of the category of M-approximative systems. Keywords— Approximative operator...

Kernel methods and rough sets are two general pursuits in the domain of machine learning and intelligent systems. Kernel methods map data into a higher dimensional feature space, where the resulting structure of the classification task is linearly separable; while rough sets granulate the universe with the use of relations and employ the induced knowledge granules to approximate arbitrary conce...

There are three basic concepts that underlie human cognition: granulation, organization and causation. Informally, granulation involves decomposition of whole into parts; organization involves integration of parts into whole; and causation involves association of causes with effects. Granulation of an object A leads to a collection of granules of A, with a granule being a clump of points (objec...

Fuzzy Set Theory and Rough Set Theory are the most popular mathematical tools for dealing with uncertainties. During past decades, these set theories are being applied successfully in several areas for solving many complex tasks. This paper is concerned with the application of hybrid Fuzzy-Rough set based approach for feature subset selection. Keywords— Fuzzy set theory, Rough Set theory, Fuzzy...

This paper investigates roughness of fuzzy soft sets. A pair of fuzzy soft rough approximations is proposed and their properties are given. Based on fuzzy soft rough approximations, the concept of fuzzy soft rough sets is introduced. New types of fuzzy soft sets such as full, intersection complete and union complete fuzzy soft sets are defined and supported by some illustrative examples. We obt...

The dominance–based rough set approach plays an important role in the development of the rough set theory. It can be used to express the inconsistencies coming from consideration of the preference–ordered domains of the attributes. The purpose of this paper is to further generalize the dominance–based rough set model to fuzzy environment. The constructive approach is used to define the intuitio...