Transactions on Rough Sets XIII

The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related issues, from logical and mathematical foundations, through all aspects of rough set theory and its applications, such as data mining, knowledge discovery, and intelligent information processing, to relations between rough sets and other approaches to uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, such as fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume XIII contains 14 papers which introduce a number of new advances in both the foundations and the applications of rough sets. These are mathematical structures of generalized rough sets in infinite universes, approximations of arbitrary binary relations, and attribute reduction in decision-theoretic rough sets. Methodological advances introduce rough set-based and hybrid methodologies for learning theory, attribution reduction, decision analysis, risk assessment, and data mining tasks such as classification and clustering. In addition, this volume contains regular articles on mining temporal software metrics data, C-GAME discretization method, perceptual tolerance intersection as an example of a near set operation and compression of spatial data with quadtree structures. Front Matter....Pages - Bit-Vector Representation of Dominance-Based Approximation Space....Pages 1-16 Approximations of Arbitrary Binary Relations by Partial Orders: Classical and Rough Set Models....Pages 17-38 Hybridization of Rough Sets and Statistical Learning Theory....Pages 39-55 Fuzzy-Rough Nearest Neighbour Classification....Pages 56-72 Efficient Mining of Jumping Emerging Patterns with Occurrence Counts for Classification....Pages 73-88 Rough Entropy Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering in Image Segmentation....Pages 89-103 Software Defect Prediction Based on Source Code Metrics Time Series....Pages 104-120 Risk Assessment in Granular Environments....Pages 121-134 Core-Generating Discretization for Rough Set Feature Selection....Pages 135-158 Perceptual Tolerance Intersection....Pages 159-174 Some Mathematical Structures of Generalized Rough Sets in Infinite Universes of Discourse....Pages 175-206 Quadtree Representation and Compression of Spatial Data....Pages 207-239 Solving the Attribute Reduction Problem with Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 240-259 A Note on Attribute Reduction in the Decision-Theoretic Rough Set Model....Pages 260-275 Back Matter....Pages -