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 …

Fuzzy rough sets and fuzzy rough neural networks for feature selection: A review

W Ji, Y Pang, X Jia, Z Wang, F Hou… - … : Data Mining and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Feature selection aims to select a feature subset from an original feature set based on a
certain evaluation criterion. Since feature selection can achieve efficient feature reduction, it …

Maximal-discernibility-pair-based approach to attribute reduction in fuzzy rough sets

J Dai, H Hu, WZ Wu, Y Qian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attribute reduction is one of the biggest challenges encountered in computational
intelligence, data mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Effective in feature …

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 …

Hybrid -Nearest Neighbor Classifier

Z Yu, H Chen, J Liu, J You, H Leung… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classification approaches have several limitations
when dealing with some problems caused by the special datasets, such as the sparse …

Attribute clustering using rough set theory for feature selection in fault severity classification of rotating machinery

F Pacheco, M Cerrada, RV Sánchez, D Cabrera… - Expert Systems with …, 2017 - Elsevier
Features extracted from real world applications increase dramatically, while machine
learning methods decrease their performance given the previous scenario, and feature …

Entropy measures and granularity measures for set-valued information systems

J Dai, H Tian - Information Sciences, 2013 - Elsevier
Set-valued information systems are generalized models of single-valued information
systems. In this paper, we propose two new relations for set-valued information systems …

An uncertainty measure for incomplete decision tables and its applications

J Dai, W Wang, Q Xu - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uncertainty measures can supply new viewpoints for analyzing data. They can help us in
disclosing the substantive characteristics of data. The uncertainty measurement issue is also …

Modified AHP for gene selection and cancer classification using type-2 fuzzy logic

T Nguyen, S Nahavandi - IEEE transactions on fuzzy systems, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a modification to the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to select the
most informative genes that serve as inputs to an interval type-2 fuzzy logic system (IT2FLS) …

A short survey on data clustering algorithms

KC Wong - 2015 Second international conference on soft …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With rapidly increasing data, clustering algorithms are important tools for data analytics in
modern research. They have been successfully applied to a wide range of domains, for …