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5 Citations
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3 December 2018

Attribute reduction is an important topic in the research of rough set theory, and it has been widely used in many aspects. Reduction based on an identifiable matrix is a common method, but a lot of space is occupied by repetitive and redundant ident...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,015 Views
16 Pages

26 December 2019

In the first part of our paper, we construct a cyclic hypergroup of matrices using the Ends Lemma. Its properties are then, in the second part of the paper, used to describe the symmetry of lower and upper approximations in certain rough sets with re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Classical and Fuzzy Algebraic Hypercompositional Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,070 Views
23 Pages

18 November 2022

The grade-added rough set (GRS) approach is an extension of the rough set theory proposed by Pawlak to deal with numerical data. However, the GRS has problems with overtraining, unclassified and unnatural results. In this study, we propose a new appr...

(This article belongs to the Section Data)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,782 Views
25 Pages

Jordan-Type Inequalities and Stratification

  • Miloš Mićović and
  • Branko Malešević

14 April 2024

In this paper, two double Jordan-type inequalities are introduced that generalize some previously established inequalities. As a result, some new upper and lower bounds and approximations of the sinc function are obtained. This extension of Jordan&rs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Approximation Techniques and Their Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,476 Views
29 Pages

Granular Structure of Type-2 Fuzzy Rough Sets over Two Universes

  • Juan Lu,
  • De-Yu Li,
  • Yan-Hui Zhai and
  • He-Xiang Bai

21 November 2017

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Sets Theory and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,540 Views
52 Pages

Based on the geometry of a radial function, a sequence of approximations for arcsine, arccosine and arctangent are detailed. The approximations for arcsine and arccosine are sharp at the points zero and one. Convergence of the approximations is prove...

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  • Open Access
560 Views
19 Pages

6 March 2026

In this study, we investigate the upper- and lower-bound approximations of numerical eigenvalues derived by weak Galerkin spectral element methods on arbitrary convex quadrilateral meshes for the Laplace eigenvalue problem. Firstly, the Piola transfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
565 Views
26 Pages

30 January 2026

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for studying rough intuitionistic fuzzy filters within the structure of BE-algebras. Building on rough set theory and intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, we introduce rough intuitionistic fuzzy filters via low...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,795 Views
15 Pages

Alexandrov L-Fuzzy Pre-Proximities

  • Yong Chan Kim and
  • Ju-Mok Oh

15 January 2019

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of Alexandrov L-fuzzy pre-proximities on complete residuated lattices. Moreover, we investigate their relations among Alexandrov L-fuzzy pre-proximities, Alexandrov L-fuzzy topologies, L-fuzzy upper approximat...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,227 Views
20 Pages

20 September 2024

Rough set theory is a methodology that defines the definite or probable membership of an element for exploring data with uncertainty and incompleteness. It classifies data sets using lower and upper approximations to model uncertainty and missing inf...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,553 Views
31 Pages

Rough Semiring-Valued Fuzzy Sets with Application

  • Jiří Močkoř,
  • Petr Hurtik and
  • David Hýnar

29 June 2022

Many of the new fuzzy structures with complete MV-algebras as value sets, such as hesitant, intuitionistic, neutrosophic, or fuzzy soft sets, can be transformed into one type of fuzzy set with values in special complete algebras, called AMV-algebras....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue FSTA: Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,140 Views
22 Pages

26 July 2023

An algorithm is presented for the construction of an asymptotic approximation of a stable stationary solution to a diffusion equation system in a two-dimensional domain with a smooth boundary and a source function that is discontinuous along some smo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Randomized, Online and Approximation Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
360 Views
19 Pages

8 May 2026

This paper focuses on constructing four novel multiquadric (MQ) quasi-interpolation operators. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of the essential properties of the proposed operators and further derive rigorous optimal upper and lower bounds for th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Systems: Dynamics, Control, Optimization and Applications in Science and Engineering, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,841 Views
19 Pages

1 March 2023

We consider the initial-boundary value problem of reaction-diffusion-advection that has a solution of a front form. The statement comes from the theory of wave physics. We study the question of the solution stabilizing to the stationary one. Proof of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling and Applications)
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373 Views
19 Pages

This paper investigates a class of nonlinear fractional differential equations with boundary value problems involving Caputo–Hadamard-type derivatives. By relaxing the monotonicity constraints on the nonlinear terms and considering more general...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,279 Views
17 Pages

18 March 2023

In rough set theory, the multiplicity of methods of calculating neighborhood systems is very useful to calculate the measures of accuracy and roughness. In line with this research direction, in this article we present novel kinds of rough neighborhoo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,529 Views
28 Pages

Impact of Locality on Location Aware Unit Disk Graphs

  • Andreas Wiese and
  • Evangelos Kranakis

12 September 2008

Due to their importance for studies oi wireless networks, recent years have seen a surge of activity on the design of local algorithms for the solution of a variety of network tasks. We study the behaviour of algorithms with very low localities. Desp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Views
34 Pages

This study evaluates whether fractional-order shaping provides a meaningful performance advantage for robust current control of a frequency-controlled parallel-resonant inverter when compared under identical conditions with strongly tuned integer-ord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Dynamics: Advances in Modelling, Control, and Optimization Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
638 Views
31 Pages

UAV Path Optimization for Target Passive Localization Considering the Position Uncertainty of the Target

  • Jiahao Lin,
  • Liuhongye Song,
  • Yuxiang Lu,
  • Xueting Li and ,
  • Wei Li and
  • Genjiu Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 August 2026

For the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based passive target localization, the positions of the UAVs play an important role because different UAV configurations provide distinct TDOA measurement geometries. In addition, the uncertainty o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Target Detection, Imaging and Recognition (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,327 Views
24 Pages

20 September 2024

This paper presents the novel concept of rough intuitionistic fuzzy ideals within the realm of BCK-algebras and investigates their fundamental properties. Furthermore, we introduce a set-valued homomorphism over a BCK-algebra, laying the foundation f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,779 Views
25 Pages

2 April 2021

In this work, the existence and nonexistence of stationary radial solutions to the elliptic partial differential equation arising in the molecular beam epitaxy are studied. Since we are interested in radial solutions, we focus on the fourth-order sin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends on Boundary Value Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,218 Views
8 Pages

On Covering-Based Rough Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets

  • R. Mareay,
  • Ibrahim Noaman,
  • Radwan Abu-Gdairi and
  • M. Badr

2 November 2022

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFSs) and rough sets depending on covering are important theories for dealing with uncertainty and inexact problems. We think the neighborhood of an element is more realistic than any cluster in the processes of classificat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,428 Views
19 Pages

30 April 2023

The challenging issues of computer networks and databases are not only the intrusion detection but also the reduction of false positives and increase of detection rate. In any intrusion detection system, anomaly detection mainly focuses on modeling t...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,729 Views
29 Pages

TURBO: The Swiss Knife of Auto-Encoders

  • Guillaume Quétant,
  • Yury Belousov,
  • Vitaliy Kinakh and
  • Slava Voloshynovskiy

21 October 2023

We present a novel information-theoretic framework, termed as TURBO, designed to systematically analyse and generalise auto-encoding methods. We start by examining the principles of information bottleneck and bottleneck-based networks in the auto-enc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory for Interpretable Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,892 Views
11 Pages

A Class of Coupled Causal Differential Equations

  • Wen-Li Wang,
  • Jing-Feng Tian and
  • Wing-Sum Cheung

20 September 2018

In this thesis, we consider the existence of extreme solutions to a class of coupled causal differential equations. By utilizing two comparison theorems and a monotone iterative technique, we have obtained sufficient conditions under which the equati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
897 Views
15 Pages

20 June 2025

An important mathematical way to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in knowledge is rough set (RS) theory. It is believed that a grill is a necessary addition to this idea. Since it expands the approximate of RSs, it is a helpful technique for remov...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Topics in General Topology and Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
443 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2026

Given an ideal topological space (X,τ,I), we consider two opposite ways of idealizing the class of h-open sets. The first, the class of hI-open sets introduced by Açıkgöz and Noiri, pushes the ideal inward through the Jankovi...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Geometry and Topology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,296 Views
33 Pages

29 August 2024

After the 2007 financial crisis, many central banks adopted policies to lower their interest rates; the dynamics of these rates cannot be captured using classical models. Recently, Meucci and Loregian proposed an approach to estimate nonnegative inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,983 Views
23 Pages

18 November 2022

A multigranulation rough set (MGRS) model is an expansion of the Pawlak rough set, in which the uncertain concept is characterized by optimistic and pessimistic upper/lower approximate boundaries, respectively. However, there is a lack of approximate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,545 Views
35 Pages

Schröder based series for the principal and negative one branches of the Lambert W function are defined; the series are generic and are in terms of an initial, arbitrary, approximating function. Upper and lower bounds for the initial approximati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,734 Views
8 Pages

On Generalized Roughness in LA-Semigroups

  • Noor Rehman,
  • Choonkil Park,
  • Syed Inayat Ali Shah and
  • Abbas Ali

27 June 2018

The generalized roughness in LA-semigroups is introduced, and several properties of lower and upper approximations are discussed. We provide examples to show that the lower approximation of a subset of an LA-semigroup may not be an LA-subsemigroup/id...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
550 Views
14 Pages

Microstructure and Properties of Different Modulus Sections in JG4246A Alloy Characteristic Simulation Castings

  • Hai-Tao Jiang,
  • Lei Jin,
  • Gao-Yang Jing,
  • Peng Li and ,
  • Bing-Zheng Fan,
  • Yi-Peng Li,
  • Lan-Bo Ma,
  • Ao-Qi Li,
  • Tian-Yv Liu and
  • Yang Guan
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

27 February 2026

This study takes the commercial JG4246A cast Ni3Al-based superalloy as the research object, under the conditions of preheating the mold shell at 1020 °C and a pouring temperature of 1520 °C, characteristic simulation castings were poured. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Metal Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,776 Views
20 Pages

The relationship between the inverse Langevin function and the proposed r0-r1-Lambert W function is defined. The derived relationship leads to new approximations for the inverse Langevin function with lower relative error bounds than comparable publi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,093 Views
26 Pages

9 August 2023

Fuzzy rough set theory has been successfully applied to many attribute reduction methods, in which the lower approximation set plays a pivotal role. However, the definition of lower approximation used has ignored the information conveyed by the upper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining: Analysis and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,595 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2022

The rough set model for dual universes and multi granulation over dual universes is an interesting generalization of the Pawlak rough set model. In this paper, we present a pessimistic multigranulation roughness of a fuzzy set based on soft binary re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Sets and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,126 Views
27 Pages

17 April 2025

This study investigates extremal solutions for fractional-order delayed difference equations, utilizing the Caputo nabla operator to establish mild lower and upper approximations via discrete fractional calculus. A new approach is employed to demonst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Nonlinear Waves)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,208 Views
14 Pages

In this article, a new mixed finite element (MFE) algorithm is presented and developed to find the numerical solution of a two-dimensional nonlinear fourth-order Riemann–Liouville fractional diffusion-wave equation. By introducing two auxiliary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Numerical Solutions of Fractional PDEs)
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  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,493 Views
17 Pages

26 October 2016

Mixture models are in high demand for machine-learning analysis due to their computational tractability, and because they serve as a good approximation for continuous densities. Predominantly, entropy applications have been developed in the context o...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Applied Statistical Mechanics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,669 Views
21 Pages

27 June 2021

For L a complete co-residuated lattice and R an L-fuzzy relation, an L-fuzzy upper approximation operator based on co-implication adjoint with L is constructed and discussed. It is proved that, when L is regular, the new approximation operator is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,287 Views
12 Pages

19 September 2018

As a generalization of single value neutrosophic rough sets, the concept of multi-granulation neutrosophic rough sets was proposed by Bo et al., and some basic properties of the pessimistic (optimistic) multigranulation neutrosophic rough approximati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Discrete Mathematics and Symmetry)
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  • Open Access
1,071 Views
24 Pages

30 May 2025

A critical step for gene selection algorithms using rough set theory is the establishment of a gene evaluation function to assess the classification ability of candidate gene subsets. The concept of dependency in a classic neighborhood rough set mode...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
16 Pages

Numerical Evaluation of Gaussian Mixture Entropy

  • Basheer Joudeh and
  • Boris Škorić

30 March 2026

We develop an approximation method for the differential entropy h(X) of a q-component Gaussian mixture in Rn. We provide two examples of approximations using our method denoted by h¯C,mTaylor(X) and h¯CPolyfit(X). We show that h¯C,mTay...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,049 Views
20 Pages

In the pursuit of energy efficiency in next-generation communication systems, approximate computing is emerging as a promising technique. In the proposed work, efforts are made to address the challenge of bridging the gap between the level of approxi...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,193 Views
29 Pages

20 October 2023

Variational inference provides a way to approximate probability densities through optimization. It does so by optimizing an upper or a lower bound of the likelihood of the observed data (the evidence). The classic variational inference approach sugge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy: The Cornerstone of Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
322 Views
28 Pages

10 August 2026

Approximate transport maps can facilitate exploration of a Bayesian target distribution, but the resulting samples generally do not follow that distribution. To address this problem, we develop residual-slice correction, a sampling framework that com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bayesian Statistics)
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  • Open Access
368 Views
29 Pages

27 June 2026

Decision-making problems often involve simultaneous sources of uncertainty: interval-valued hesitation in expert judgments, positive–neutral–negative assessments, parameter-dependent evaluations, and boundary-region indiscernibility. To a...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,912 Views
18 Pages

6 May 2020

The expected utility principle is often used to compute the insurance premium through a second-order approximation of the expected value of the utility of losses. We investigate the impact of using a more accurate approximation based on the fourth-or...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,148 Views
14 Pages

29 May 2023

In this paper an algorithm for approximate solving of a boundary value problem for a nonlinear differential equation with a special type of fractional derivative is suggested. This derivative is called a generalized proportional Caputo fractional der...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Randomized, Online and Approximation Algorithms)

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