Attribute reduction methods in fuzzy rough set theory: An overview, comparative experiments, and new directions

Z Yuan, H Chen, P Xie, P Zhang, J Liu, T Li - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuzzy rough set theory is a powerful tool to deal with uncertainty information, which has
been successfully applied to the fields of attribute reduction, rule extraction, classification …

Computational intelligence and feature selection: rough and fuzzy approaches

R Jensen, Q Shen - 2008 - books.google.com
The rough and fuzzy set approaches presented here open up many new frontiers for
continued research and development Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection …

Fuzzy rough attribute reduction for categorical data

C Wang, Y Wang, M Shao, Y Qian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classical rough set theory is considered a useful tool for dealing with the uncertainty of
categorical data. The major deficiency of this model is that the classical rough set model is …

Positive approximation: an accelerator for attribute reduction in rough set theory

Y Qian, J Liang, W Pedrycz, C Dang - Artificial intelligence, 2010 - Elsevier
Feature selection is a challenging problem in areas such as pattern recognition, machine
learning and data mining. Considering a consistency measure introduced in rough set …

A fitting model for feature selection with fuzzy rough sets

C Wang, Y Qi, M Shao, Q Hu, D Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fuzzy rough set is an important rough set model used for feature selection. It uses the fuzzy
rough dependency as a criterion for feature selection. However, this model can merely …

Feature subset selection based on fuzzy neighborhood rough sets

C Wang, M Shao, Q He, Y Qian, Y Qi - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Rough set theory has been extensively discussed in machine learning and pattern
recognition. It provides us another important theoretical tool for feature selection. In this …

New approaches to fuzzy-rough feature selection

R Jensen, Q Shen - IEEE Transactions on fuzzy systems, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There has been great interest in developing methodologies that are capable of dealing with
imprecision and uncertainty. The large amount of research currently being carried out in …

Hybrid attribute reduction based on a novel fuzzy-rough model and information granulation

Q Hu, Z Xie, D Yu - Pattern recognition, 2007 - Elsevier
Feature subset selection has become an important challenge in areas of pattern recognition,
machine learning and data mining. As different semantics are hidden in numerical and …

Discernibility matrix simplification for constructing attribute reducts

Y Yao, Y Zhao - Information sciences, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a reduct construction method based on discernibility matrix
simplification. The method works in a similar way to the classical Gaussian elimination …

Mixed feature selection based on granulation and approximation

Q Hu, J Liu, D Yu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2008 - Elsevier
Feature subset selection presents a common challenge for the applications where data with
tens or hundreds of features are available. Existing feature selection algorithms are mainly …