Rough Set Attribute Reduction in Decision Systems

  • Hongru Li
  • Wenxiu Zhang
  • Ping Xu
  • Hong Wang
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4062)

Abstract

An important issue of knowledge discovery and data mining is the reduction of pattern dimensionality. In this paper, we investigate the attribute reduction in decision systems based on a congruence on the power set of attributes and present a method of determining congruence classifications. We can obtain the reducts of attributes in decision systems by using the classification. Moreover, we prove that the reducts obtained by the congruence classification coincide with the distribution reducts in decision systems.

Keywords

 C-closed set congruence dependence space knowledge reduction semilattice 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Hongru Li
    • 1
  • Wenxiu Zhang
    • 1
  • Ping Xu
    • 1
  • Hong Wang
    • 1
  1. 1.Faculty of Science, Institute for Information and System SciencesXi’an Jiaotong UniversityXi’an, Shaan’xiP.R. China

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