TY - GEN
T1 - Novel algorithms of attribute reduction for variable precision rough set
AU - Yang, Yan-Yan
AU - Chen, De-Gang
AU - Kwong, Sam
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The main application of variable precision rough set is to perform attribute reduction for databases. In variable precision rough set, the approach of discernibility matrix is theoretical foundation of finding reducts. In this paper, we observe that only minimal elements in the discernibility matrix is sufficient to find reducts, and every minimal element in the discernibility matrix is determined by one equivalence class pair relative to condition attributes at least; this fact motivates our idea in this paper to search the connection between this kind of pair and the minimal element in the discernibility matrix. By the connection between them, we develop the novel algorithms of finding reducts, which improve the existing ones in terms of discernibility matrix. © 2011 IEEE.
AB - The main application of variable precision rough set is to perform attribute reduction for databases. In variable precision rough set, the approach of discernibility matrix is theoretical foundation of finding reducts. In this paper, we observe that only minimal elements in the discernibility matrix is sufficient to find reducts, and every minimal element in the discernibility matrix is determined by one equivalence class pair relative to condition attributes at least; this fact motivates our idea in this paper to search the connection between this kind of pair and the minimal element in the discernibility matrix. By the connection between them, we develop the novel algorithms of finding reducts, which improve the existing ones in terms of discernibility matrix. © 2011 IEEE.
KW - Discernibility matrix
KW - Equivalence class pair relative to condition attributes
KW - Minimal element
KW - Variable precision rough set
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80155171514
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/pubmetrics.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80155171514&origin=recordpage
U2 - 10.1109/ICMLC.2011.6016740
DO - 10.1109/ICMLC.2011.6016740
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781457703065
VL - 1
SP - 108
EP - 112
BT - Proceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2011
Y2 - 10 July 2011 through 13 July 2011
ER -