Certain types of soft coverings based rough sets with applications

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Abstract

Hybrid soft set model is an important topic for dealing with uncertainty. By means of soft neighborhoods, soft complementary neighborhoods and soft adhesions, we build five new different types of soft coverings based rough sets and study related properties. The relationships between soft rough sets and soft covering based rough sets are investigated. Finally, we give two special algorithms based on the first two types of soft coverings based rough sets and apply the two special algorithms to solve an actual problem.

Keywords

Soft neighborhood Soft complementary neighborhood Soft covering based rough set Soft rough set Decision making 
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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by NNSFC (11461025; 11561023).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of MathematicsHubei University for NationalitiesEnshiPeople’s Republic of China

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