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11 Citations
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New Multigranulation Neutrosophic Rough Set with Applications

  • Chunxin Bo,
  • Xiaohong Zhang,
  • Songtao Shao and
  • Florentin Smarandache

2 November 2018

After the neutrosophic set (NS) was proposed, NS was used in many uncertainty problems. The single-valued neutrosophic set (SVNS) is a special case of NS that can be used to solve real-word problems. This paper mainly studies multigranulation neutros...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,389 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Approach to Neutrosophic Soft Rough Set under Uncertainty

  • Ashraf Al-Quran,
  • Nasruddin Hassan and
  • Emad Marei

15 March 2019

To handle indeterminate and incomplete data, neutrosophic logic/set/probability were established. The neutrosophic truth, falsehood and indeterminacy components exhibit symmetry as the truth and the falsehood look the same and behave in a symmetrical...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
3,329 Views
23 Pages

Linear Diophantine Fuzzy Rough Sets: A New Rough Set Approach with Decision Making

  • Saba Ayub,
  • Muhammad Shabir,
  • Muhammad Riaz,
  • Waqas Mahmood,
  • Darko Bozanic and
  • Dragan Marinkovic

4 March 2022

In this article, a new hybrid model named linear Diophantine fuzzy rough set (LDFRS) is proposed to magnify the notion of rough set (RS) and linear Diophantine fuzzy set (LDFS). Concerning the proposed model of LDFRS, it is more efficient to discuss...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,222 Views
22 Pages

16 March 2020

In this paper, we will visit Rough Set Theory and the Alternative Set Theory (AST) and elaborate a few selected concepts of them using the means of higher-order fuzzy logic (this is usually called Fuzzy Type Theory). We will show that the basic notio...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,319 Views
24 Pages

29 August 2022

Among the 26 roughness parameters described in ISO 25178 standard, the parameters used to characterize surface performance in characterization parameter set (CPS) lack scientificity and unity, resulting in application confusion. The current CPS comes...

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  • Open Access
138 Views
18 Pages

22 January 2026

Using the concept of category, we provide some insight into and prove an intrinsic property of the category AprS of approximation spaces and continuous functions. We also introduce rough closure and rough interior operators to characterize clopen top...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,345 Views
15 Pages

8 November 2023

Point cloud data generated by LiDAR sensors play a critical role in 3D sensing systems, with applications encompassing object classification, part segmentation, and point cloud recognition. Leveraging the global learning capacity of dot product atten...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,464 Views
24 Pages

9 January 2020

Since the rough sets theory based on the double quantification method was proposed, it has attracted wide attention in decision-making. This paper studies the decision-making approach in Incomplete Ordered Information System (IOIS). Firstly, to bette...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,185 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision-Theoretic Rough Set Model and Its Application

  • Wajid Ali,
  • Tanzeela Shaheen,
  • Hamza Ghazanfar Toor,
  • Tmader Alballa,
  • Alhanouf Alburaikan and
  • Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa

24 October 2023

The Decision-Theoretic Rough Set model stands as a compelling advancement in the realm of rough sets, offering a broader scope of applicability. This approach, deeply rooted in Bayesian theory, contributes significantly to delineating regions of mini...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,567 Views
19 Pages

17 July 2017

In this paper, we extend the rough set model on two different universes in intuitionistic fuzzy approximation spaces to a single-valued neutrosophic environment. Firstly, based on the ( α , β , γ ) -cut relation R ˜ { ( α , β , γ ) } ...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,409 Views
23 Pages

Pessimistic Multigranulation Rough Set of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets Based on Soft Relations

  • Muhammad Zishan Anwar,
  • Ahmad N. Al-Kenani,
  • Shahida Bashir and
  • Muhammad Shabir

22 February 2022

Qian presented multigranulation rough set (MGRS) models based on Pawlak’s rough set (RS) model. There are two types of MGRS models, named optimistic MGRS and pessimistic MGRS. Recently, Shabir et al. presented an optimistic multigranulation int...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,205 Views
29 Pages

Decision Making in Fuzzy Rough Set Theory

  • Fernando Chacón-Gómez,
  • M. Eugenia Cornejo and
  • Jesús Medina

6 October 2023

Decision rules are powerful tools to manage information and to provide descriptions of data sets; as a consequence, they can acquire a useful role in decision-making processes where fuzzy rough set theory is applied. This paper focuses on the study o...

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  • Open Access
569 Views
24 Pages

22 April 2025

Attitude preference plays an important role in multigranulation data mining and decision-making. That is, different attitude preferences lead to different results. At present, both optimistic and pessimistic multigranulation rough sets have been stud...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,574 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...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
1,284 Views
13 Pages

Customer Behavior Analysis Using Rough Set Approach

  • Prabha Dhandayudam and
  • Ilango Krishnamurthi

The customer relationship management (CRM) is a business methodology used to build long term profitable customers by analyzing customer needs and behaviors. The customer behavior is analyzed by choosing important attributes in the customer database....

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
3,426 Views
17 Pages

In the paper, an image enhancement algorithm based on a rough set and fractional order differentiator is proposed. By combining the rough set theory with a Gaussian mixture model, a new image segmentation algorithm with higher immunity is obtained. T...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,577 Views
14 Pages

28 July 2020

Discretization based on rough sets is used to divide the space formed by continuous attribute values with as few breakpoint sets as possible, while maintaining the original indistinguishable relationship of the decision system, so as to accurately cl...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,680 Views
19 Pages

An Algorithm for Computing All Rough Set Constructs for Dimensionality Reduction

  • Yanir González-Díaz,
  • José Fco. Martínez-Trinidad,
  • Jesús A. Carrasco-Ochoa and
  • Manuel S. Lazo-Cortés

27 December 2023

In rough set theory, a construct is an attribute subset with the same ability to discern objects belonging to different classes as the whole set of attributes, while maintaining the similarity between objects belonging to the same class. Although alg...

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  • Open Access
325 Views
15 Pages

1 December 2025

As a foundational analytical tool, the discernibility matrix plays a pivotal role in the systematic reduction of knowledge in rough set-based systems. Recent advancements in rough set theory have witnessed the proliferation of discernibility matrix-b...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,951 Views
14 Pages

4 March 2023

As nonassociative fuzzy logic connectives, it is important to study fuzzy rough set models using overlap functions that replace the role of t-norms. Overlap functions and t-norms are logical operators with symmetry. Recently, intuitionistic fuzzy rou...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,901 Views
21 Pages

Parallel Computation of Rough Set Approximations in Information Systems with Missing Decision Data

  • Thinh Cao,
  • Koichi Yamada,
  • Muneyuki Unehara,
  • Izumi Suzuki and
  • Do Van Nguyen

The paper discusses the use of parallel computation to obtain rough set approximations from large-scale information systems where missing data exist in both condition and decision attributes. To date, many studies have focused on missing condition da...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,593 Views
31 Pages

9 July 2020

On the basis of decision-theoretical rough sets (DTRSs), the three-way decisions give new model of decision approach for deal with the problem of decision. This proposed model of decision method is based on the loss function of DTRSs. First, the conc...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,735 Views
29 Pages

9 January 2025

This research presents an innovative approach in text mining based on rough set theory. This study fundamentally utilizes the concept of symmetry from rough set theory to construct indiscernibility matrices and model uncertainties in data analysis, e...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,011 Views
14 Pages

11 March 2020

The set of heuristics constituting the methods of deep learning has proved very efficient in complex problems of artificial intelligence such as pattern recognition, speech recognition, etc., solving them with better accuracy than previously applied...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,626 Views
32 Pages

6 May 2025

This study introduces a novel framework leveraging Rough Set Theory (RST)-based feature selection—MLReduct, MLSpecialReduct, and MLFuzzyRoughSet—to enhance machine learning performance on uncertain data. Applied to a private cardiovascula...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,203 Views
11 Pages

In multi-strategy games, the increase in the number of strategies makes it difficult to make a solution. To maintain the competition advantage and obtain maximal profits, one side of the game hopes to predict the opponent’s behavior. Building a...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,515 Views
27 Pages

Hybrid MCDM Based on VIKOR and Cross Entropy under Rough Neutrosophic Set Theory

  • Katarina Rogulj,
  • Jelena Kilić Pamuković and
  • Majda Ivić

9 June 2021

Problems in real life usually involve uncertain, inconsistent and incomplete information. An example of such problems is strategic decision making with respect to remediation planning of historic pedestrian bridges. The multiple decision makers and e...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,006 Views
21 Pages

Decision Rules for Renewable Energy Utilization Using Rough Set Theory

  • Chuying Huang,
  • Chun-Che Huang,
  • Din-Nan Chen and
  • Yuju Wang

23 August 2023

Rough Set (RS) theory is used for data analysis and decision making where decision-making rules can be derived through attribute reduction and feature selection. Energy shortage is an issue for governments, and solar energy systems have become an imp...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,879 Views
12 Pages

29 October 2019

Relative reduction of multiple neighborhood-covering with multigranulation rough set has been one of the hot research topics in knowledge reduction theory. In this paper, we explore the relative reduction of covering information system by combining t...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,172 Views
21 Pages

Bioretention Systems Optimization and Design Characterization Model Using Fuzzy Rough Set Theory

  • Fredelino A. Galleto,
  • Melvin K. Cabatuan,
  • Aaron Don M. Africa,
  • Marla C. Maniquiz-Redillas,
  • Jay M. Navaluna,
  • John Christian Q. Herrera,
  • Aristotle T. Ubando,
  • Alvin B. Culaba and
  • Mark Christian Felipe R. Redillas

25 June 2022

Urban stormwater has become a persistent concern on a global scale due to its adverse environmental implications. It is the prime vector of aquatic contaminants worldwide that causes pollutants when water bodies drain. Bioretention systems are increa...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,194 Views
22 Pages

23 February 2023

The intelligent adjustment method of the shearer drum is the key technology to improve the intelligent level and safety degree of fully mechanized mining face. This paper proposes a shearer drum intelligent height adjustment model based on rough set...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,589 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...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,838 Views
30 Pages

Covering-Based Intuitionistic Hesitant Fuzzy Rough Set Models and Their Application to Decision-Making Problems

  • Muhammad Kamraz Khan,
  • Kamran,
  • Muhammad Sajjad Ali Khan,
  • Ahmad Aloqaily and
  • Nabil Mlaiki

4 June 2024

In this paper, we present four categories of covering-based intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy rough set (CIHFRS) models using intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy β-neighborhoods (IHF β-neighborhoods) and intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy complementary &b...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,667 Views
16 Pages

12 July 2019

Multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) is a part of management decision-making and an important branch of the modern decision theory and method. MADM focuses on the decision problem of discrete and finite decision schemes. Uncertain MADM is an extens...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,863 Views
21 Pages

Green-Building-Material Supplier Selection with a Rough-Set-Enhanced Quality Function Deployment

  • Zhiying Zhang,
  • Huchang Liao,
  • Jiaying Chang and
  • Abdullah Al-barakati

13 December 2019

Building material supplier evaluation and selection is a significant strategic-decision problem for reducing construction costs and ensuring the quality of a residential product. As people are increasingly concerning about the green level of a reside...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,026 Views
13 Pages

13 October 2018

The information entropy developed by Shannon is an effective measure of uncertainty in data, and the rough set theory is a useful tool of computer applications to deal with vagueness and uncertainty data circumstances. At present, the information ent...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,780 Views
15 Pages

7 November 2018

This work proposes an approach to analyze water quality data that is based on rough set theory. Six major water quality indicators (temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, specific conductivity, and nitrate concentration) were collected at the...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,489 Views
24 Pages

Graph-Based Hotspot Detection of Socio-Economic Data Using Rough-Set

  • Mohd Shamsh Tabarej,
  • Sonajharia Minz,
  • Anwar Ahamed Shaikh,
  • Mohammed Shuaib,
  • Fathe Jeribi and
  • Shadab Alam

29 June 2024

The term hotspot refers to a location or an area where the occurrence of a particular phenomenon, event, or activity is significantly higher than in the surrounding areas. The existing statistical methods need help working well on discrete data. Also...

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  • Open Access
94 Citations
5,297 Views
19 Pages

Covering-Based Spherical Fuzzy Rough Set Model Hybrid with TOPSIS for Multi-Attribute Decision-Making

  • Shouzhen Zeng,
  • Azmat Hussain,
  • Tahir Mahmood,
  • Muhammad Irfan Ali,
  • Shahzaib Ashraf and
  • Muhammad Munir

16 April 2019

In real life, human opinion cannot be limited to yes or no situations as shown in an ordinary fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets but it may be yes, abstain, no, and refusal as treated in Picture fuzzy sets or in Spherical fuzzy (SF) sets. In th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,544 Views
16 Pages

Variable Gap MAG Welding Penetration Control Using Rough Set Knowledge Acquisition

  • Zhiqiang Feng,
  • Hao Yuan,
  • Junfeng Han,
  • Na Lv,
  • Xin Li and
  • Quan Li

31 October 2023

The establishment of the correspondence between the important features of the topside weld pool and the penetration state is a key link in penetration control. This article presents a scheme of variable gap welding penetration control based on rough-...

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  • Open Access
1,970 Views
26 Pages

An Interpretable Predictive Model for Health Aspects of Solvents via Rough Set Theory

  • Wey Ying Hoo,
  • Jecksin Ooi,
  • Nishanth Gopalakrishnan Chemmangattuvalappil,
  • Jia Wen Chong,
  • Chun Hsion Lim and
  • Mario Richard Eden

31 July 2023

This paper presents a machine learning (ML) approach to predict the potential health issues of solvents by uncovering the hidden relationship between substances and toxicity. Solvent selection is a crucial step in industrial processes. However, prolo...

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  • Open Access
1,381 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2024

Hesitant fuzzy information systems have been widely applied in decision-making due to their ability to handle uncertain information. In addition, dominance relationships are often taken into account in many practical decision-making problems. Therefo...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,550 Views
36 Pages

12 August 2019

Context-aware video recommender systems (CAVRS) seek to improve recommendation performance by incorporating contextual features along with the conventional user-item ratings used by video recommender systems. In addition, the selection of influential...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,384 Views
22 Pages

11 July 2019

In order to evaluate the atmospheric environment sustainability in the provinces of Northeast China, this paper has constructed a comprehensive evaluation model based on the rough set and entropy weight methods. This paper first constructs a Pressure...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,741 Views
22 Pages

8 June 2018

A relation is viewed as a granularity from a granular computing perspective. A classic rough set contains only one granularity. A multi-granulation rough set contains multiple granularities, which promotes the applications of classical rough set. Fir...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,666 Views
9 Pages

6 August 2020

Rough set theory is a mathematics tool specifying imperfection and uncertainty. Based on the knowledge theory of the rough set, the numerical values of some features or attributes are not required. Through data reduction, this article analyzes the in...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,574 Views
23 Pages

Modern power systems are large in size and complex in features; the data collected by Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are often noisy and contaminated; and the machine learning models that have been applied to the transient stability assessment (TSA)...

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1 Citations
1,897 Views
14 Pages

31 May 2022

The globalization of integrated circuit (IC) design and fabrication has given rise to severe concerns with respect to modeling strategic interaction between malicious attackers and Hardware Trojan (HT) defenders using game theory. The quantitative as...

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14 Citations
3,443 Views
13 Pages

Rough Set Based Classification and Feature Selection Using Improved Harmony Search for Peptide Analysis and Prediction of Anti-HIV-1 Activities

  • Bagyamathi Mathiyazhagan,
  • Joseph Liyaskar,
  • Ahmad Taher Azar,
  • Hannah H. Inbarani,
  • Yasir Javed,
  • Nashwa Ahmad Kamal and
  • Khaled M. Fouad

15 February 2022

AIDS, which is caused by the most widespread HIV-1 virus, attacks the immune system of the human body, and despite the incredible endeavors for finding proficient medication strategies, the continuing spread of AIDS and claiming subsequent infections...

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