Thriving Rough Sets: 10th Anniversary - Honoring Professor Zdzisław Pawlak's Life and Legacy & 35 Years of Rough Sets

This special book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzisław Pawlak, the father of rough set theory, in order to commemorate both the 10th anniversary of his passing and 35 years of rough set theory. The book consists of 20 chapters distributed into four sections, which focus in turn on a historical review of Professor Zdzisław Pawlak and rough set theory; a review of the theory of rough sets; the state of the art of rough set theory; and major developments in rough set based data mining approaches. Apart from Professor Pawlak’s contributions to rough set theory, other areas he was interested in are also included. Moreover, recent theoretical studies and advances in applications are also presented. The book will offer a useful guide for researchers in Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining by suggesting new approaches to solving the problems they encounter. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Born and Growing of Chinese Rough Set Community with Help of Professor Zdzisław Pawlak....Pages 3-11 Zdzisław Pawlak as I Saw Him and Remember Him Now....Pages 13-20 Recent Development of Rough Computing: A Scientometrics View....Pages 21-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Rough Sets, Rough Mereology and Uncertainty ....Pages 49-85 Rough Sets in Machine Learning: A Review....Pages 87-118 Application of Tolerance Rough Sets in Structured and Unstructured Text Categorization: A Survey....Pages 119-138 Medical Diagnosis: Rough Set View....Pages 139-156 Rough Set Analysis of Imprecise Classes....Pages 157-185 Pawlak’s Many Valued Information System, Non-deterministic Information System, and a Proposal of New Topics on Information Incompleteness Toward the Actual Application....Pages 187-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 From Information Systems to Interactive Information Systems....Pages 207-223 Back to the Beginnings: Pawlak’s Definitions of the Terms Information System and Rough Set ....Pages 225-235 Knowledge and Consequence in AC Semantics for General Rough Sets....Pages 237-268 Measuring Soft Roughness of Soft Rough Sets Induced by Covering....Pages 269-281 Rough Search of Vague Knowledge....Pages 283-309 Vagueness and Uncertainty: An F-Rough Set Perspective....Pages 311-327 Directions of Use of the Pawlak’s Approach to Conflict Analysis....Pages 329-351 Lattice Structure of Variable Precision Rough Sets....Pages 353-363 Front Matter....Pages 365-365 Mining for Actionable Knowledge in Tinnitus Datasets....Pages 367-395 Rough-Granular Computing for Relational Data....Pages 397-423 The Boosting and Bootstrap Ensembles for the Pair Classifier Based on the Dual Indiscernibility Matrix....Pages 425-439