Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision Making

Multigranulation rough set theory is an important tool to deal with the problem of multicriteria information system. The notion of fuzzy β-neighborhood has been used to construct some covering-based multigranulation fuzzy rough set (CMFRS) models through multigranulation fuzzy measure. But the β-nei...

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Main Authors: Zaibin Chang, Lingling Mao
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6937307
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description Multigranulation rough set theory is an important tool to deal with the problem of multicriteria information system. The notion of fuzzy β-neighborhood has been used to construct some covering-based multigranulation fuzzy rough set (CMFRS) models through multigranulation fuzzy measure. But the β-neighborhood has not been used in these models, which can be seen as the bridge of fuzzy covering-based rough sets and covering-based rough sets. In this paper, the new concept of multigranulation fuzzy neighborhood measure and some types of covering-based multigranulation fuzzy rough set (CMFRS) models based on it are proposed. They can be seen as the further combination of fuzzy sets: covering-based rough sets and multigranulation rough sets. Moreover, they are used to solve the problem of multicriteria decision making. Firstly, the definition of multigranulation fuzzy neighborhood measure is given based on the concept of β-neighborhood. Moreover, four types of CMFRS models are constructed, as well as their characteristics and relationships. Then, novel matrix representations of them are investigated, which can satisfy the need of knowledge discovery from large-scale covering information systems. The matrix representations can be more easily implemented than set representations by computers. Finally, we apply them to manage the problem of multicriteria group decision making (MCGDM) and compare them with other methods.
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spelling doaj-art-5a75abfad18f46368e9f1f8133a775cc2025-02-03T06:43:23ZengWileyJournal of Mathematics2314-47852021-01-01202110.1155/2021/6937307Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision MakingZaibin Chang0Lingling Mao1Department of Basic EducationDepartment of Basic EducationMultigranulation rough set theory is an important tool to deal with the problem of multicriteria information system. The notion of fuzzy β-neighborhood has been used to construct some covering-based multigranulation fuzzy rough set (CMFRS) models through multigranulation fuzzy measure. But the β-neighborhood has not been used in these models, which can be seen as the bridge of fuzzy covering-based rough sets and covering-based rough sets. In this paper, the new concept of multigranulation fuzzy neighborhood measure and some types of covering-based multigranulation fuzzy rough set (CMFRS) models based on it are proposed. They can be seen as the further combination of fuzzy sets: covering-based rough sets and multigranulation rough sets. Moreover, they are used to solve the problem of multicriteria decision making. Firstly, the definition of multigranulation fuzzy neighborhood measure is given based on the concept of β-neighborhood. Moreover, four types of CMFRS models are constructed, as well as their characteristics and relationships. Then, novel matrix representations of them are investigated, which can satisfy the need of knowledge discovery from large-scale covering information systems. The matrix representations can be more easily implemented than set representations by computers. Finally, we apply them to manage the problem of multicriteria group decision making (MCGDM) and compare them with other methods.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6937307
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Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision Making
Journal of Mathematics
title Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision Making
title_full Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision Making
title_fullStr Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision Making
title_full_unstemmed Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision Making
title_short Some New Covering-Based Multigranulation Fuzzy Rough Sets and Corresponding Application in Multicriteria Decision Making
title_sort some new covering based multigranulation fuzzy rough sets and corresponding application in multicriteria decision making
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6937307
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