Rough Set Theory : A new Mathematical Approach to Data Analysis
Rough Set Theory : A new Mathematical Approach to Data Analysis
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2008
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Zdziss Law Pawlak
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Zdziss Law Pawlak
Rough set theory is a new mathematical approach to data analysis recently known also as data mining. In recent years we witnessed a rapid grow of interest in rough set theory and its applications, worldwide. The rough set approach seems to be of fundamental importance to AI and cognitive sciences, especially in the areas of machine learning, knowledge acquisition, decision analysis, knowledge discovery from databases, expert systems, inductive reasoning and pattern recognition. The main advantage of rough set theory is that it does not need any preliminary or additional information about data – like probability in statistics or basic probability assignment in Dempster-Shafer theory and grade of membership or the value of possibility in fuzzy set theory. Besides, the theory allows straightforward interpretation of results. Rough set theory has been successfully applied in many real-life problems in medicine, pharmacology, engineering, banking, financial and market analysis and others. This paper discusses basic concepts of rough set theory. The presented approach is too simple to many real-life applications, therefore it was extended in many ways, but we will not discuss these extensions here. More about rough sets and their applications can be found in the references.