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A Theoretical Formulation of Object-Oriented Rough Set Models

Yasuo Kudo^* and Tetsuya Murai^**

^*Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto, Muroran 050-8585, Japan
^**Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 060-0814, Japan

Received: January 1, 2006

Accepted: April 10, 2006

Keywords: rough set, object-orientation, has-a relation, is-a relation

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.10, No.5 pp. 612-620, 2006

Abstract

We introduce object-oriented paradigm into rough set theory. First, we provide concepts of class, object, and name, respectively. Class structures represent abstract data forms, and abstract structural hierarchy based on is-a relationship and has-a relationship. Object structures illustrate many kinds of objects and actual dependence among objects by is-a relationship and has-a relationship. Name structures provide concrete design of objects, and connect class structures and object structures consistently. Next, combining class, name and object structures, we propose object-oriented information systems, which include "traditional" information systems as special cases. Moreover, we introduce indiscernibility relations on the set of objects, lower and upper approximations, and object-oriented rough sets in the object-oriented information systems.

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