Determining and applying sustainable supplier key performance indicators

C Bai, J Sarkis - Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to introduce a methodology to identify sustainable
supply chain key performance indicators (KPI) that can then be used for sustainability …

Feature selection with test cost constraint

F Min, Q Hu, W Zhu - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2014 - Elsevier
Feature selection is an important preprocessing step in machine learning and data mining.
In real-world applications, costs, including money, time and other resources, are required to …

Quick attribute reduct algorithm for neighborhood rough set model

L Yong, H Wenliang, J Yunliang, Z Zhiyong - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose an efficient quick attribute reduct algorithm based on
neighborhood rough set model. In this algorithm we divide the objects (records) of the whole …

Composite rough sets for dynamic data mining

J Zhang, T Li, H Chen - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
As a soft computing tool, rough set theory has become a popular mathematical framework
for pattern recognition, data mining and knowledge discovery. It can only deal with attributes …

Parallel attribute reduction algorithms using MapReduce

J Qian, D Miao, Z Zhang, X Yue - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Attribute reduction is the key technique for knowledge acquisition in rough set theory.
However, it is still a challenging task to perform attribute reduction on massive data. During …

Feature selection based on dependency margin

Y Liu, F Tang, Z Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection tries to find a subset of feature from a larger feature pool and the selected
subset can provide the same or even better performance compared with using the whole set …

A parallel matrix-based method for computing approximations in incomplete information systems

J Zhang, JS Wong, Y Pan, T Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the volume of data grows at an unprecedented rate, large-scale data mining and
knowledge discovery present a tremendous challenge. Rough set theory, which has been …

A novel method for attribute reduction of covering decision systems

C Wang, Q He, D Chen, Q Hu - Information sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Attribute reduction has become an important step in pattern recognition and machine
learning tasks. Covering rough sets, as a generalization of classical rough sets, have …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of parallel large-scale knowledge acquisition using rough set theory on different MapReduce runtime systems

J Zhang, JS Wong, T Li, Y Pan - International Journal of Approximate …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nowadays, with the volume of data growing at an unprecedented rate, large-scale data
mining and knowledge discovery have become a new challenge. Rough set theory for …

Feature selection via neighborhood multi-granulation fusion

Y Lin, J Li, P Lin, G Lin, J Chen - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
Feature selection is an important data preprocessing technique, and has been widely
studied in data mining, machine learning, and granular computing. However, very little …