In this paper, our approach is to study properties of approximations on nearness approximation spaces. Afterwards, our aim is to define near semigroups and near ideals on near approximation spaces. We introduce some properties of these near structures. The nearness of sets and, in particular, the nearness of algebraic structures on nearness approximation spaces fits within the milieu of fuzzy s...

we study algebraic properties of categories of merotopic, nearness, and filter algebras. we show that the category of filter torsion free abelian groups is an epireflective subcategory of the category of filter abelian groups. the forgetful functor from the category of filter rings to filter monoids is essentially algebraic and the forgetful functor from the category of filter groups to the cat...

This paper studies the category theoretic aspects of ε-approach nearness spaces and ε-approach merotopic spaces, respectively, ε ∈ (0,∞], which are useful in measuring the degree of nearness (resemblance) of objects. Such structures measure the almost nearness of two collections of subsets of a nonempty set. The categories εANear and εAMer are shown to be full supercategories of various well-kn...

An artificial intelligence system that processes geothematic data would profit from a (semi-)formal or controlled natural language interface that incorporates concepts for nearness. Though there already exists logical-engineering approaches giving sufficient conditions for nearness relations, we show within a logical analysis that these suffer from some deficiencies. Non-engineering approaches ...

The problem considered in this paper is how to describe and compare visual objects. The solution to this problem stems from a consideration of nearness relations in two different forms of Efremovic̆ proximity spaces. In this paper, the visual objects are picture elements in digital images. In particular, this problem is solved in terms of the application of rough sets in proximity spaces. The ba...

An artificial intelligence system that processes geo-thematic data would profit from a (semi-)formal or controlled natural language interface that incorporates concepts for nearness. Though there already exists logical-engineering approaches giving sufficient conditions for nearness relations, we show within a logical analysis that these suffer from some deficiencies. Non-engineering approaches...

The problem considered in this paper is the extension of an approximation space to include a nearness relation. Approximation spaces were introduced by Zdzis law Pawlak during the early 1980s as frameworks for classifying objects by means of attributes (features). Pawlak introduced approximations as a means of approximating one set of objects with another set of objects using an indiscernibilit...

This paper is devoted to a nearness relation in an Efremovic̆proximity space. The basic approach is to consider the nearness of the upper and lower approximation of a set introduced by Z. Pawlak during the early 1980s as a foundation for rough sets. Two forms of nearness relations are considered, namely, a spatial EFand a descriptive EFrelation. This leads to a study of the nearness of objects e...

The present paper investigates approximation spaces in the context of topological structures which axiomatise the notion of nearness. Starting with the framework of information quanta which distinguishes two levels of information structures, namely property systems (the first level) and information quantum relational systems (the second level), we shall introduce the notion of Pawlak’s property...