Rough set model based feature selection for mixed-type data with feature space decomposition

KJ Kim, CH Jun - Expert Systems with Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Feature selection plays an important role in the classification problems associated with
expert and intelligent systems. The central idea behind feature selection is to identify …

Variable radius neighborhood rough sets and attribute reduction

D Zhang, P Zhu - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2022 - Elsevier
Neighborhood rough sets provide important insights into dealing with numerical data.
Neighborhood radius, a key factor that affects data uncertainty, is uniformly given in most of …

Feature selection combining information theory view and algebraic view in the neighborhood decision system

J Xu, K Qu, M Yuan, J Yang - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Feature selection is one of the core contents of rough set theory and application. Since the
reduction ability and classification performance of many feature selection algorithms based …

Exploring the boundary region of tolerance rough sets for feature selection

N Mac Parthalain, Q Shen - Pattern recognition, 2009 - Elsevier
Of all of the challenges which face the effective application of computational intelligence
technologies for pattern recognition, dataset dimensionality is undoubtedly one of the …

A novel unsupervised approach to heterogeneous feature selection based on fuzzy mutual information

Z Yuan, H Chen, P Zhang, J Wan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aiming at the problem of effectively selecting relevant features from heterogeneous data
without decision, a novel feature selection approach is studied based on fuzzy mutual …

Feature selection based on the rough set theory and expectation-maximization clustering algorithm

F Fazayeli, L Wang, J Mandziuk - … Conference on Rough Sets and Current …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract We study the Rough Set theory as a method of feature selection based on tolerant
classes that extends the existing equivalent classes. The determination of initial tolerant …

Using rough sets with heuristics for feature selection

N Zhong, J Dong, S Ohsuga - Journal of intelligent information systems, 2001 - Springer
Practical machine learning algorithms are known to degrade in performance (prediction
accuracy) when faced with many features (sometimes attribute is used instead of feature) …

A soft neighborhood rough set model and its applications

S An, X Guo, C Wang, G Guo, J Dai - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Neighborhood rough set theory is widely used to measure the uncertainty of data in machine
learning and data mining. However, the neighborhood radius has a significant influence on …

Fuzzy-rough feature selection accelerator

Y Qian, Q Wang, H Cheng, J Liang, C Dang - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
Fuzzy rough set method provides an effective approach to data mining and knowledge
discovery from hybrid data including categorical values and numerical values. However, its …

Finding rough set reducts with fish swarm algorithm

Y Chen, Q Zhu, H Xu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
Rough set theory is one of the effective methods to feature selection which can preserve the
characteristics of the original features by deleting redundant information. The main idea of …