Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam: Volume 1 (Intelligent Systems Reference Library (42))

This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzis{\l}aw Pawlak who passed away almost six year ago. He is the founder of the Polish school of Artificial Intelligence and one of the pioneers in Computer Engineering and Computer Science with worldwide influence. He was a truly great scientist, researcher, teacher and a human being. This book prepared in two volumes contains more than 50 chapters. This demonstrates that the scientific approaches discovered by of Professor Zdzis{\l}aw Pawlak, especially the rough set approach as a tool for dealing with imperfect knowledge, are vivid and intensively explored by many researchers in many places throughout the world. The submitted papers prove that interest in rough set research is growing and is possible to see many new excellent results both on theoretical foundations and applications of rough sets alone or in combination with other approaches. We are proud to offer the readers this book. Front Matter....Pages 1-47 Professor Zdzisław Pawlak (1926-2006): Founder of the Polish School of Artificial Intelligence....Pages 1-56 List of Works by Professor Zdzisław Pawlak (1926-2006)....Pages 57-74 Rough Sets: From Rudiments to Challenges....Pages 75-173 Zdzisław Pawlak, Databases and Rough Sets....Pages 175-184 jMAF - Dominance-Based Rough Set Data Analysis Framework....Pages 185-209 Dynamic Programming Approach for Exact Decision Rule Optimization....Pages 211-228 Approaches for Updating Approximations in Set-Valued Information Systems While Objects and Attributes Vary with Time....Pages 229-248 On the Gradual Evolvement of Things....Pages 249-259 An Empirical Comparison of Rule Sets Induced by LERS and Probabilistic Rough Classification....Pages 261-276 Exploring Neighborhood Structures with Neighborhood Rough Sets in Classification Learning....Pages 277-307 Rough Representations of Ill-Known Sets and Their Manipulations in Low Dimensional Space....Pages 309-331 Property-Driven Rough Sets Approximations of Relations....Pages 333-357 Towards a Comprehensive Similarity Analysis of Voting Procedures Using Rough Sets and Similarity Measures....Pages 359-380 Algebras for Information Systems....Pages 381-407 DNA Rough-Set Computing in the Development of Decision Rule Reducts....Pages 409-438 Three-Valued Logic for Reasoning about Covering-Based Rough Sets....Pages 439-461 Music Information Retrieval in Music Repositories....Pages 463-489 Rough Support Vectors: Classification, Regression, Clustering....Pages 491-515 Logic-Based Roughification....Pages 517-543 How Near Are Zdzisław Pawlak’s Paintings?....Pages 545-568 An Implementation of the Zdzisław Pawlak Idea for Reasoning about Uncertainty: Approximate Reasoning by Parts....Pages 569-583 Granular Concept Mapping and Applications....Pages 585-603 Rough Sets and Medical Differential Diagnosis....Pages 605-621 Science and Semantics: A Note on Rough Sets and Vagueness....Pages 623-643 Back Matter....Pages 0--1 This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzisław Pawlak who passed away almost six year ago. He is the founder of the Polish school of Artificial Intelligence and one of the pioneers in Computer Engineering and Computer Science with worldwide influence. He was a truly great scientist, researcher, teacher and a human being. This book prepared in two volumes contains more than 50 chapters. This demonstrates that the scientific approaches discovered by of Professor Zdzis{\l}aw Pawlak, especially the rough set approach as a tool for dealing with imperfect knowledge, are vivid and intensively explored by many researchers in many places throughout the world. The submitted papers prove that interest in rough set research is growing and is possible to see many new excellent results both on theoretical foundations and applications of rough sets alone or in combination with other approaches