Approximation Spaces and Information Granulation

We discuss approximation spaces in the granular computing framework. Such approximation spaces generalise the approaches to concept approximation existing in rough set theory. Approximation spaces are constructed as higher level information granules and are obtained as the result of complex modelling. We present illustrative examples of modelling approximation spaces including approximation spaces for function approximation, inducing concept approximation, and some other information granule approximations. In modelling of such approximation spaces we use an important assumption that not only objects but also more complex information granules involved in approximations are perceived using only partial information about them.