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Rough Mereology: A Survey of New Developments with Applications to Granular Computing, Spatial Reasoning and Computing with Words

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Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC 2003)

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In this paper, we present a survey of new developments in rough mereology, i.e. approximate calculus of parts, an approach to reasoning under uncertainty based on the notion of an approximate part (part to a degree) along with pointers to its main applications. The paradigms of Granule Computing (GC), Computing with Words (CWW) and Spatial Reasoning (SR) are particularly suited to a unified treatment by means of Rough Mereology (RM).

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  1. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Koszykowa 86, 02008, Warsaw, Poland

    Lech Polkowski

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, P.R. China

    Guoyin Wang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330029, P.R. China

    Qing Liu

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada

    Yiyu Yao

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

    Andrzej Skowron

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Polkowski, L. (2003). Rough Mereology: A Survey of New Developments with Applications to Granular Computing, Spatial Reasoning and Computing with Words. In: Wang, G., Liu, Q., Yao, Y., Skowron, A. (eds) Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing. RSFDGrC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2639. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39205-X_14

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