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A Treatise on Rough Sets

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Transactions on Rough Sets IV

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This article presents some general remarks on rough sets and their place in general picture of research on vagueness and uncertainty – concepts of utmost interest, for many years, for philosophers, mathematicians, logicians and recently also for computer scientists and engineers particularly those working in such areas as AI, computational intelligence, intelligent systems, cognitive science, data mining and machine learning. Thus this article is intended to present some philosophical observations rather than to consider technical details or applications of rough set theory. Therefore we also refrain from presentation of many interesting applications and some generalizations of the theory.

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  1. Institute for Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bałtycka 5, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Zdzisław Pawlak

  2. Warsaw School of Information Technology, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

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    James F. Peters

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej Skowron

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Pawlak, Z. (2005). A Treatise on Rough Sets. In: Peters, J.F., Skowron, A. (eds) Transactions on Rough Sets IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3700. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11574798_1

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