On generalized intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators

In rough set theory, the lower and upper approximation operators defined by binary relations satisfy many interesting properties. Various generalizations of Pawlak’s rough approximations have been made in the literature over the years. This paper proposes a general framework for the study of relation-based intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators within which both constructive and axiomatic approaches are used. In the constructive approach, a pair of lower and upper intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators induced from an arbitrary intuitionistic fuzzy relation are defined. Basic properties of the intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators are then examined. By introducing cut sets of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, classical representations of intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators are presented. The connections between special intuitionistic fuzzy relations and intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators are further established. Finally, an operator-oriented characterization of intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets is proposed, that is, intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators are defined by axioms. Different axiom sets of lower and upper intuitionistic fuzzy set-theoretic operators guarantee the existence of different types of intuitionistic fuzzy relations which produce the same operators.     

Characterization of rough set approximations in Atanassov intuitionistic fuzzy set theory

The primitive notions in rough set theory are lower and upper approximation operators defined by a fixed binary relation and satisfying many interesting properties. Many types of generalized rough set models have been proposed in the literature. This paper discusses the rough approximations of Atanassov intuitionistic fuzzy sets in crisp and fuzzy approximation spaces in which both constructive and axiomatic approaches are used. In the constructive approach, concepts of rough intuitionistic fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets are defined, properties of rough intuitionistic fuzzy approximation operators and intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators are examined. Different classes of rough intuitionistic fuzzy set algebras and intuitionistic fuzzy rough set algebras are obtained from different types of fuzzy relations. In the axiomatic approach, an operator-oriented characterization of rough sets is proposed, that is, rough intuitionistic fuzzy approximation operators and intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators are defined by axioms. Different axiom sets of upper and lower intuitionistic fuzzy set-theoretic operators guarantee the existence of different types of crisp/fuzzy relations which produce the same operators.     

Generalized rough sets over fuzzy lattices

This paper studies generalized rough sets over fuzzy lattices through both the constructive and axiomatic approaches. From the viewpoint of the constructive approach, the basic properties of generalized rough sets over fuzzy lattices are obtained. The matrix representation of the lower and upper approximations is given. According to this matrix view, a simple algorithm is obtained for computing the lower and upper approximations. As for the axiomatic approach, a set of axioms is constructed to characterize the upper approximation of generalized rough sets over fuzzy lattices.     

积模糊粗集模型及其模糊知识粒的表示和分解

为处理人工智能中不精确和不确定的数据和知识,Pawlak提出了粗集理论。之后粗集理论被推广,其方法主要有二:一是减弱对等价关系的依赖;二是把研究问题的论域从一个拓展到多个。结合这两种思想,研究基于两个模糊近似空间的积模糊粗集模型及其模糊粗糙集的表示和分解。根据这种思想,可以从论域分解的角度探索降低高维模糊粗糙集计算的复杂度问题。先对模糊近似空间的分层递阶结构———λ-截近似空间进行研究,得到不同层次知识粒的相互关系;然后定义模糊等价关系的积,并研究其性质及算法;最后构建基于积模糊等价关系的积模糊粗集模型,并讨论了该模型中模糊粗糙集的表示及分解问题,分别从λ-截近似空间和一维模糊近似空间的角度去处理,给出了可分解集的上(下)近似的一个刻画,及模糊可分解集的上(下)近似的λ-截集分解算法。     

粒计算的集合论描述

粒计算的形式化研究一直没有被仔细讨论.文中在集合论框架下,对粒计算做了系统研究,给出了粒度空间的三层模型(论域,基,粒结构).借用逻辑语言L判定粒的可定义性,将经典粗糙集通过此模型重新解释.根据模型中从基到粒结构不同的构造规则,引出并可约和交可约粒度空间的定义,分别讨论了不同粒度空间下覆盖、基和粒结构的关系,从而给出从覆盖求基的方法;进一步,利用子系统表示方法对扩展粗糙集以及一般的交可约与并可约空间的上下近似进行了研究,分析了现有的4种基于覆盖的粗糙集模型的合理性;研究了形式概念分析以及知识空间的粒度空间模型,给出这两种理论中上下近似的概念.     

覆盖模糊S-粗集模型

建立了基于覆盖理论的模糊S-粗糙集模型,并讨论其性质。在覆盖单向S-粗集x的最小描述的基础上,给出了x的最大描述的定义。给出了覆盖模糊S-粗集上 、下近似算子定义,讨论了算子的基本性质,证明了覆盖S-粗糙集模型下所有模糊集的下近似构成一个模糊拓扑,并得到模糊单向S-粗集X相对于覆盖单向S-粗集和覆盖约简单向S-粗集的上下近似分别相等。     

Generalized rough sets based on relations

Rough set theory has been proposed by Pawlak as a tool for dealing with the vagueness and granularity in information systems. The core concepts of classical rough sets are lower and upper approximations based on equivalence relations. This paper studies arbitrary binary relation based generalized rough sets. In this setting, a binary relation can generate a lower approximation operation and an upper approximation operation, but some of common properties of classical lower and upper approximation operations are no longer satisfied. We investigate conditions for a relation under which these properties hold for the relation based lower and upper approximation operations.This paper also explores the relationships between the lower or the upper approximation operation generated by the intersection of two binary relations and those generated by these two binary relations, respectively. Through these relationships, we prove that two different binary relations will certainly generate two different lower approximation operations and two different upper approximation operations.     

On characterization of intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets based on intuitionistic fuzzy implicators

This paper presents a general framework for the study of relation-based (I,T)-intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets by using constructive and axiomatic approaches. In the constructive approach, by employing an intuitionistic fuzzy implicator I and an intuitionistic fuzzy triangle norm T, lower and upper approximations of intuitionistic fuzzy sets with respect to an intuitionistic fuzzy approximation space are first defined. Properties of (I,T)-intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximation operators are examined. The connections between special types of intuitionistic fuzzy relations and properties of intuitionistic fuzzy approximation operators are established. In the axiomatic approach, an operator-oriented characterization of (I,T)-intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets is proposed. Different axiom sets characterizing the essential properties of intuitionistic fuzzy approximation operators associated with various intuitionistic fuzzy relations are explored.     

On the generalization of fuzzy rough sets

Rough sets and fuzzy sets have been proved to be powerful mathematical tools to deal with uncertainty, it soon raises a natural question of whether it is possible to connect rough sets and fuzzy sets. The existing generalizations of fuzzy rough sets are all based on special fuzzy relations (fuzzy similarity relations, T-similarity relations), it is advantageous to generalize the fuzzy rough sets by means of arbitrary fuzzy relations and present a general framework for the study of fuzzy rough sets by using both constructive and axiomatic approaches. In this paper, from the viewpoint of constructive approach, we first propose some definitions of upper and lower approximation operators of fuzzy sets by means of arbitrary fuzzy relations and study the relations among them, the connections between special fuzzy relations and upper and lower approximation operators of fuzzy sets are also examined. In axiomatic approach, we characterize different classes of generalized upper and lower approximation operators of fuzzy sets by different sets of axioms. The lattice and topological structures of fuzzy rough sets are also proposed. In order to demonstrate that our proposed generalization of fuzzy rough sets have wider range of applications than the existing fuzzy rough sets, a special lower approximation operator is applied to a fuzzy reasoning system, which coincides with the Mamdani algorithm.     

On intuitionistic fuzzy rough sets and their topological structures

In this paper, lower and upper approximations of intuitionistic fuzzy sets with respect to an intuitionistic fuzzy approximation space are first defined. Properties of intuitionistic fuzzy approximation operators are examined. Relationships between intuitionistic fuzzy rough set approximations and intuitionistic fuzzy topologies are then discussed. It is proved that the set of all lower approximation sets based on an intuitionistic fuzzy reflexive and transitive approximation space forms an intuitionistic fuzzy topology; and conversely, for an intuitionistic fuzzy rough topological space, there exists an intuitionistic fuzzy reflexive and transitive approximation space such that the topology in the intuitionistic fuzzy rough topological space is just the set of all lower approximation sets in the intuitionistic fuzzy reflexive and transitive approximation space. That is to say, there exists an one-to-one correspondence between the set of all intuitionistic fuzzy reflexive and transitive approximation spaces and the set of all intuitionistic fuzzy rough topological spaces. Finally, intuitionistic fuzzy pseudo-closure operators in the framework of intuitionistic fuzzy rough approximations are investigated.     

An axiomatic characterization of a fuzzy generalization of rough sets

In rough set theory, the lower and upper approximation operators defined by a fixed binary relation satisfy many interesting properties. Several authors have proposed various fuzzy generalizations of rough approximations. In this paper, we introduce the definitions for generalized fuzzy lower and upper approximation operators determined by a residual implication. Then we find the assumptions which permit a given fuzzy set-theoretic operator to represent a upper (or lower) approximation derived from a special fuzzy relation. Different classes of fuzzy rough set algebras are obtained from different types of fuzzy relations. And different sets of axioms of fuzzy set-theoretic operator guarantee the existence of different types of fuzzy relations which produce the same operator. Finally, we study the composition of two approximation spaces. It is proved that the approximation operators in the composition space are just the composition of the approximation operators in the two fuzzy approximation spaces.     

Theory and applications of granular labelled partitions in multi-scale decision tables

Granular computing and acquisition of if-then rules are two basic issues in knowledge representation and data mining. A formal approach to granular computing with multi-scale data measured at different levels of granulations is proposed in this paper. The concept of labelled blocks determined by a surjective function is first introduced. Lower and upper label-block approximations of sets are then defined. Multi-scale granular labelled partitions and multi-scale decision granular labelled partitions as well as their derived rough set approximations are further formulated to analyze hierarchically structured data. Finally, the concept of multi-scale information tables in the context of rough set is proposed and the unravelling of decision rules at different scales in multi-scale decision tables is discussed.     

Algorithm and axiomatization of rough fuzzy sets based finite dimensional fuzzy vectors

Rough sets, proposed by Pawlak and rough fuzzy sets proposed by Dubois and Prade were expressed with the different computing formulas that were more complex and not conducive to computer operations. In this paper, we use the composition of a fuzzy matrix and fuzzy vectors in a given non-empty finite universal, constitute an algebraic system composed of finite dimensional fuzzy vectors and discuss some properties of the algebraic system about a basis and operations. We give an effective calculation representation of rough fuzzy sets by the inner and outer products that unify computing of rough sets and rough fuzzy sets with a formula. The basis of the algebraic system play a key role in this paper. We give some essential properties of the lower and upper approximation operators generated by reflexive, symmetric, and transitive fuzzy relations. The reflexive, symmetric, and transitive fuzzy relations are characterized by the basis of the algebraic system. A set of axioms, as the axiomatic approach, has been constructed to characterize the upper approximation of fuzzy sets on the basis of the algebraic system.     

Algorithm and axiomatization of rough fuzzy sets based finite dimensional fuzzy vectors

Rough sets, proposed by Pawlak and rough fuzzy sets proposed by Dubois and Prade were expressed with the different computing formulas that were more complex and not conducive to computer operations. In this paper, we use the composition of a fuzzy matrix and fuzzy vectors in a given non-empty finite universal, constitute an algebraic system composed of finite dimensional fuzzy vectors and discuss some properties of the algebraic system about a basis and operations. We give an effective calculation representation of rough fuzzy sets by the inner and outer products that unify computing of rough sets and rough fuzzy sets with a formula. The basis of the algebraic system play a key role in this paper. We give some essential properties of the lower and upper approximation operators generated by reflexive, symmetric, and transitive fuzzy relations. The reflexive, symmetric, and transitive fuzzy relations are characterized by the basis of the algebraic system. A set of axioms, as the axiomatic approach, has been constructed to characterize the upper approximation of fuzzy sets on the basis of the algebraic system.     

多粒化模糊软粗糙集模型

为了扩大粗糙集理论的应用,特别是在模糊环境中的应用,基于模糊软集和模糊蕴涵算子,主要研究基于软模糊近似空间的乐观多粒化模糊软粗糙集模型。该模型将参数集根据客户的不同要求或目标进行重组,只选择若干相关参数集参与计算上、下近似,这样定义的上、下近似不再由整个属性集决定,而是根据重组后的多个属性集一并生成,从而使结果更加符合实际需求。另外,还定义了乐观多粒化模糊软粗糙集模型的截集并讨论了其相关性质。最后给出了算例。     

区间值Fuzzy集分解定理上的近似算子研究

将广义粗糙模糊下、上近似算子拓展到区间上,并利用区间值模糊集分解定理给出一组新的广义区间值粗糙模糊下、上近似算子,证明二者在由任意二元经典关系构成的广义近似空间中是等价的,最后讨论了在一般二元关系下,两组近似算子的性质。     

Roughness based on fuzzy ideals

The theory of rough set, proposed by Pawlak and the theory of fuzzy set, proposed by Zadeh are complementary generalizations of classical set theory. Many sets are naturally endowed with two binary operations: addition and multiplication. One concept which does this is a ring. This paper concerns a relationship between rough sets, fuzzy sets and ring theory. It is a continuation of ideas presented by Kuroki and Wang [N. Kuroki, P.P. Wang, The lower and upper approximations in a fuzzy group, Inform. Sci. 90 (1996) 203-220]. We consider a ring as a universal set and we assume that the knowledge about objects is restricted by a fuzzy ideal. In fact, we apply the notion of fuzzy ideal of a ring for definitions of the lower and upper approximations in a ring. Some characterizations of the above approximations are made and some examples are presented.     

多粒度模糊粗糙集的表示与相应的信任结构

利用多粒度粗糙集的上、下近似及其性质,结合模糊集的分解定理,研究多粒度模糊粗糙集的上、下近似的表示及性质,根据多粒度模糊粗糙集的上、下近似构造信任函数与似然函数。     

UPPER AND LOWER APPROXIMATIONS OF FUZZY SETS

The upper and lower approximations of a fuzzy subset with respect to an indistinguish-ability operator are studied. Their relations with fuzzy rough sets are also investigated.     

Constructive and axiomatic approaches to hesitant fuzzy rough set

Hesitant fuzzy set is a generalization of the classical fuzzy set by returning a family of the membership degrees for each object in the universe. Since how to use the rough set model to solve fuzzy problems plays a crucial role in the development of the rough set theory, the fusion of hesitant fuzzy set and rough set is then firstly explored in this paper. Both constructive and axiomatic approaches are considered for this study. In constructive approach, the model of the hesitant fuzzy rough set is presented to approximate a hesitant fuzzy target through a hesitant fuzzy relation. In axiomatic approach, an operators-oriented characterization of the hesitant fuzzy rough set is presented, that is, hesitant fuzzy rough approximation operators are defined by axioms and then, different axiom sets of lower and upper hesitant fuzzy set-theoretic operators guarantee the existence of different types of hesitant fuzzy relations producing the same operators.