World Wide Web has become the largest pool of knowledge in terms volume, but web users still continue to have difficulty finding relevant information. Two issues influence output information retrieval (IR) systems: first, overload and second, vagueness imprecision document representations as well user need. Rough set theory (RST) proved successful tackling ambiguous, uncertain, imprecise, or in...

To tackle the problem with inexact, uncertainty and vague knowl- edge, constructive method is utilized to formulate lower and upper approx- imation sets. Rough set model over dual-universes in fuzzy approximation space is constructed. In this paper, we introduce the concept of rough set over dual-universes in fuzzy approximation space by means of cut set. Then, we discuss properties of rough se...

Urban fringe is the transition zone fine grained with urban and non-urban land cover types. The complex landscape mosaic in this area challenges the land cover classification based on the remote-sensing data. Spectral signatures are not efficient to discriminate all pixels into classes. To improve the recognition and handle the uncertainty, this paper provides a novel integrated approach, based...

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 ...

Keen competitions in the global market have led product development to a more knowledge-intensive activity than ever, which requires not only tremendous expert knowledge but also effective analysis of design information. Kansei Engineering as a customer-oriented methodology for product development, often has to analyse imprecise design information inherent with nonlinearity and uncertainty. Thi...

Recently, in order to broad the application and theoretical areas of rough sets and matroids, some authors have combined them from many different viewpoints, such as circuits, rank function, spanning sets and so on. In this paper, we connect the second type of covering-based rough sets and matroids from the view of closure operators. On one hand, we establish a closure system through the fixed ...