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Zdzisław Pawlak, Databases and Rough Sets

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Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam

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We discuss work of Zdzisław Pawlak in the area of databases and the extension of that work to the theory of rough sets. In particular, we look at his motivations for introducing information storage and retrieval systems and how this, eventually, led to rough sets theory.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0633, USA

    Victor W. Marek

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2, Warsaw, 02097, Poland

    Andrzej Skowron

  2. Institute of Computer Science, University of Rzeszów, ul. Dekerta 2, Rzeszów, 35-030, Poland

    Zbigniew Suraj

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Marek, V.W. (2013). Zdzisław Pawlak, Databases and Rough Sets. In: Skowron, A., Suraj, Z. (eds) Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30344-9_4

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