Rough set theory provides a methodology for data analysis based on the approximation of concepts in information systems. It revolves around the notion of discernibility: the ability to distinguish between objects, based on their attribute values. It allows to infer data dependencies that are useful in the fields of feature selection and decision model construction. In many cases, however, it is...

The accuracy of methods for the assessment of mammographic risk analysis is heavily related to breast tissue characteristics. Previous work has demonstrated considerable success in developing an automatic breast tissue classification methodology which overcomes this difficulty. This paper proposes a unified approach for the application of a number of rough and fuzzy-rough set methods to the ana...

Among the huge number of attributes or features present in real-life data sets, only a small fraction of them are effective to represent the data set accurately. Prior to analysis of the data set, selecting or extracting relevant and significant features is an important preprocessing step used for pattern recognition, data mining, and machine learning. In this regard, a novel dimensionality red...

Feature selection refers to the problem of selecting those input features that are most predictive of a given outcome; a problem encountered in many areas such as machine learning, pattern recognition and signal processing. In particular, solution to this has found successful application in tasks that involve datasets containing huge numbers of features (in the order of tens of thousands), whic...

Although fuzzy support vector machine introduces the fuzzy membership degree in maximizing the margin and improves performance of classifier, it has not fully considered the position of training samples in the margin. In this paper, a double margin (rough margin) based fuzzy support vector machine (RFSVM) algorithm is presented by introducing rough set into fuzzy support vector machine. Firstly...

Article history: Received February 25, 2016 Received in revised format: March 28, 2016 Accepted June 26, 2016 Available online June 26 2016 Weather forecasting is essential and demanding scientific task of meteorological services across the world. It is a complex procedure that includes many specific technological field of study. The prediction is intricate process in meteorology because all de...

The rough set theory usually is used in datamining. At this time, we will suppose the approximation operator to satisfy some wonderful properties. It need us to think about the basis algebra, the binary relation and the approximation operator’s form in the rough set model. Lfuzzy rough approximation operator is a general fuzzy rough approximation operator. Comparing with the others rough approx...