Review Article

Recent Fuzzy Generalisations of Rough Sets Theory: A Systematic Review and Methodological Critique of the Literature

Table 5

Distribution papers based on feature or attribute selection.

Author and referenceApplication fieldType of studyStudy categoryStudy contribution

 Jensen et al. [83]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed a model by using rough sets for solving problems related to the propositional satisfiability perspective
 Qian et al. [84]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough feature selectionProposed an approach based on dimensionality reduction together with sample reduction for a heuristic process of fuzzy-rough feature selection
 Hu et al. [85]Feature evaluation and selectionDevelopedFuzzy-rough setsProposed soft fuzzy-rough sets by developing rough sets to reduce the influence of noise
 Hong et al. [86]Machine learningProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed the learning algorithm from the incomplete quantitative data sets based on rough sets
 Onan [87]Machine learningProposedFuzzy-rough setsIntroduced a new classification approach based on the fuzzy-rough nearest neighbor method for the selection of fuzzy-rough instances
 Derrac et al. [88]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsPresented a new hybrid algorithm for reduction of data by using feature and instance selection
 Jensen and Mac Parthaláin [89]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsIntroduced two novel diverse ways by using an attribute and neighborhood approximation step for solving problems of complexity of the subset evaluation metric
 Pal et al. [90]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed a new rough fuzzy approach for pattern classification based on granular computing
 Zhang et al. [24]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed a new fuzzy-rough set based on information entropy for feature selection
 Maji and Garai [91]Feature selectionDevelopedFuzzy-rough setsPresented a new feature selection approach based on fuzzy-rough sets by maximizing significant and relevance of the selected features
 Ganivada et al. [92]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed the granular neural network for recognizing salient features of data, based on fuzzy sets and a fuzzy-rough set
 Wang et al. [20]Feature subset selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed a new rough set approach for feature subset selection
 Kumar et al. [93]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed a novel algorithm based on fuzzy-rough sets for future selection and classification of datasets with multifeatures
 Hu et al. [94]Feature selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed two kinds of kernelized fuzzy-rough sets by integrating kernel functions and fuzzy-rough set approaches
 Cornelis et al. [95]Attribute selectionDevelopedFuzzy-rough setsIntroduced and extended a new rough set theory based on multiadjoint fuzzy-rough sets for calculating the lower and upper approximations
 Mac Parthaláin and Jensen [96]Attribute reductionProposedFuzzy-rough setsPresented various several unsupervised feature selection (FS) approaches based on fuzzy-rough sets
 Dai and Xu [97]Attribute selectionProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed the attribute selection method based on fuzzy-rough sets for tumor classification
 Chen et al. [98]Support vector machines (SVMs)DevelopedFuzzy-rough setsImproved the hard margin support vector machines based on fuzzy-rough sets and a training membership sample in the constraints
 Hu et al. [99]Support vector machineProposedFuzzy-rough setsProposed a novel approach for a fuzzy-rough model which was named soft fuzzy-rough sets for robust classification based on the approach
 Wei et al. [100]Attribute reductionProposedFuzzy-rough setsIntroduced two kinds of fuzzy-rough approximations and defined two corresponding relative positive region reducts
 Yao et al. [101]Attribute reductionProposedFuzzy-rough setsIntroduced a new expanded fuzzy-rough approach which was named the variable precision -fuzzy-rough approach based on fuzzy granules
 Chen et al. [102]Attribute reductionDevelopedFuzzy-rough setsDeveloped a new algorithm for finding reduction based on the minimal factors in the discernibility matrix
 Zhao et al. [103]Attribute reductionProposedFuzzy-rough setsIntroduced the robust model of dimension reduction by using fuzzy-rough sets for (reflecting of the reducts) achieved on the possible parameters
 Chen and Yang [104]Attribute reductionDevelopedFuzzy-rough setsIntegrating the rough set and fuzzy-rough set model for attribute reduction in decision systems with real and symbolic valued condition attributes