Knowledge granularity, an average measure of the size of knowledge granules, is a type of uncertainty arises from the indiscernibility relation. Consequently, granularity and indiscernibility are closely connected. In our opinion, knowledge granularity is a measure of uncertainty in an intragranule. In this paper, a new measure of knowledge granularity for information system is proposed, which ...

This paper discusses the phenomenon of granularity in natural language. By ‘granularity’ we mean the level of detail of description of an event or object. Humans can seamlessly shift their granularity perspective while reading or understanding a text. To emulate this mechanism, we describe a set of features that identify the levels of granularity in text, and empirically verify this feature set...

This paper deals with the problem of merging descriptions of approximate spatial location specified at different levels of granularity. We distinguish between the roughness of an approximation at a given level of granularity and the indeterminacy that arises when approximations are transformed from one level of granularity to another. Indeterminacy arises in particular when an approximation is ...

The granularity of sharing is one of the key components that a ect the performance in distributed shared memory DSM systems Providing only one or two xed size granu larities to the user may not result in an e cient use of resources Providing an arbitrarily variable granularity increases hardware and or software overheads Moreover its e cient implementation requires the user to provide some info...

This paper discusses the role of granularity in judgments about spatio-temporal location and relations. It distinguishes three aspects of spatio-temporal granularity: the granularity with which location is approximated, the granularity which arises as a function of the degree to which we recognize or trace over changes of location, and granularity as it affects our apprehension of spatio-tempor...

Service granularity generally refers to the size of a service. The fact that services should be large-sized or coarse-grained is often postulated as a fundamental design principle of service oriented architecture (SOA). However, multiple meanings are put on the term granularity and the impact of granularity on architectural qualities is not always clear. In order to structure the discussion, we...