Title: Rough equivalence and algebraic properties of rough sets

Authors: B.K. Tripathy, Anirban Mitra, J. Ojha

Addresses: School of Computing Sciences, VIT University, Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India. ' Department of Computer Science, Berhampur University, Berhampur 760 007, Orissa, India. ' Department of Mathematics, Khallikote (Auto) College, Berhampur 760 001, Orissa, India

Abstract: Rough sets are used as an effective model to deal with imprecise knowledge, since its inception by Pawlak (1982). Rough equalities, introduced and studied by Novotny and Pawlak (1985a, 1985b, 1985c) as methods for comparison of rough sets, were generalised to the notions of rough equivalences by Tripathy et al. (2008), where they have shown their superiority over rough equalities. In this paper, we establish the rough equivalence of some of the algebraic properties, which occur frequently in the study of crisp sets. These new properties can be used in the study of rough logic.

Keywords: rough sets; bottom rough equivalence; top rough equivalence; imprecise knowledge modelling; rough equivalences; rough logic.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAISC.2009.027296

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2009 Vol.1 No.2/3/4, pp.271 - 289

Published online: 19 Jul 2009 *

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