Bulletin of International Rough Set Society (ISSN 1346-0013)
Volume 5, Number 1/2 
May, 2001

Proceedings of International Workshop on Rough Set Theory and
Granular Computing

Edited by S. Hirano, M. Inuiguchi, and S. Tsumoto



Table of Contents

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Keynote Speech

New Look on Bayes' Theorem - the Rough Set Outlook  ........................................... 1
Zdzislaw Pawlak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Toward Intelligent Systems: Calculi of Information Granules  .................................. 9
Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland)

Soft Computing Pattern Recognition: Principles, Integrations and Data Mining  ................ 31
Sankar Kumar Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India)

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Inductive Logic Programming

The Variable Precision Rough Set Inductive Logic Programming Model and Web Usage Graphs ...... 41
V. Uma Maheswari, Arul Siromoney, and K. M. Mehata (Anna University, India)

Dealing with Imperfect Data by RS-ILP  ....................................................... 47
Chunnian Liu (Beijing Polytechnic University, China) and 
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)

A Pragmatic Approximation Operator  .......................................................... 51
Benjamin Habegger and Mohamed Quafafou (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes, France)

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Decision Making

Identifying Dual Possibility Distributions with Rough Set Concepts  .......................... 57
Peijun Guo (Kagawa University, Japan) and Hideo Tanaka (Toyohashi Sozo College, Japan)

Non-Additive Measures by Interval Probability Functions  ..................................... 63
Hideo Tanaka (Toyohashi Sozo College, Japan), Kazutomi Sugihara (Osaka University, Japan), 
and Yutaka Maeda (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

Optimistic Priority Weights with an Interval Comparison Matrix  .............................. 69
Tomoe Entani, Hidetomo Ichihashi (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan), 
and Hideo Tanaka (Toyohashi Sozo College, Japan)

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Rule Generation (1)

Knowledge Discovery Using Rough Set Combined with Genetic Programming  ...................... 75
Yasser Hassan and Eiitiro Tazaki (Toin University of Yokohama, Japan)

An Enhancement of a Procedure for Checking Dependencies of Attributes in a Table with
Non-deterministic Information  .............................................................. 81
Hiroshi Sakai (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

Data Models Based on Approximate Bayesian Networks  ......................................... 89
Dominik Slezak (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland)

Algorithms for Generation and Filtration of Approximate Decision Rules, Using Rule-Related
Quality Measures  ........................................................................... 93
Marek Sikora and Pawel Proksa (Technical University of Silesia, Poland)

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Rule Generation (2)

Mining Ordering Rules Using Rough Set Theory  ............................................... 99
Y. Y. Yao and Ying Sai (University of Regina, Canada)

A Note on Conditional Logics and Association Rules ......................................... 107
Tetsuya Murai, (Hokkaido University, Japan), 
Michinori Nakata (Josai International University, Japan), 
and Yoshiharu Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan)

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Soft Computing

Generalizations of Fuzzy Multisets for Including Infiniteness  ............................. 113
Sadaaki Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Fuzzy c-Means and Mixture Distribution Model for Clustering Based on L1-Space .............. 119
Takatsugu Koga, Sadaaki Miyamoto, and Osamu Takata (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

An Application of Extended Simulated Annealing Algorithm to Generate the Learning Data Set
for Speech Recognition System  ............................................................. 123
Chi Hwa Song and Won Don Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea)

A Knowledge Discovery Process for Corporate Bond Classifications with Neural Clustering
Technique  ................................................................................. 127
Hilary Cheng and Yi-Chuan Lu (Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)

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Granular Computing

Extracting Patterns Using Information Granules  ............................................ 135
Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland), 
Jaroslaw Stepaniuk (Bialystok University of Technology, Poland), 
and James F. Peters (University of Manitoba, Canada)

Association Rules in Semantically Rich Relations: Granular Computing Approach  ............. 143
T. Y. Lin (San Jose State University, USA) and Eric Louie (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

A Note on Filtration and Granular Reasoning  ............................................... 151
Tetsuya Murai, (Hokkaido University, Japan), 
Michinori Nakata (Josai International University, Japan), 
and Yoshiharu Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan)

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Generalization, Fundamental Theory (1)

Discenibility Lattices for Tolerance Approximate Space  .................................... 157
Zongtian Liu (Shanghai University, China)

On Fractals Defined in Information Systems via Rough Set Theory: A Preliminary Account  .... 163
Lech Polkowski (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland)

On Rough Sets under Generalized Equivalence Relations  ..................................... 167
Masahiro Inuiguchi and Tetsuzo Tanino (Osaka University, Japan)

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Generalization, Fundamental Theory (2)

Generalization of Rough Sets with ?-coverings of the Universe Induced by Conditional
Probability Relations  ...................................................................... 173
Rolly Intan, Masao Mukaidono (Meiji University, Japan), 
and Y. Y. Yao (University of Regina, Canada)

Rough Measures: Theory and Applications  .................................................... 177
Zdzislaw Pawlak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), 
James F. Peters (University of Manitoba, Canada), 
Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland), 
Z. Suraj (Pedagogical University, Poland), 
Sheela Ramanna, and M. Borkowski (University of Manitoba, Canada)

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Application (1)

Analysis of Image Sequences for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle  ................................ 185
Nguyen Hung Son, Andrzej Skowron, and Marcin S. Szczuka (Warsaw University, Poland)

Identifying Adaptable Components - A Rough Sets Style Approach  ............................. 189
Yoshiyuki Shinkawa (IBM Japan, Japan) and Masao J. Matsumoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

A Self-Injurious Behavior Data Set Analyzed by Data Mining System LERS  ..................... 195
Rachel L. Freeman, Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, Laura A. Riffel, 
and Stephen R. Schroeder (University of Kansas, USA)

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Application (2)

A Design of Architecture for Rough Set Processor  ........................................... 201
Akinori Kanasugi (Saitama University, Japan)

Rough Set Based Reductive Data Mining or Who Died on the Titanic?  .......................... 205
Lawrence J. Mazlack, Aijing He, and Yaoyao Zhu (University of Cincinnati, USA)

A Clustering Method for Nominal and Numerical Data Based on Rough Set Theory  ............... 211
Shoji Hirano, Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical University, Japan), 
Tomohiro Okuzaki, and Yutaka Hata (Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan)

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Conflict Analysis

Conflict Profiles' Susceptibility to Consensus in Consensus Systems  ....................... 217
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

Rough Set Theory in Conflict Analysis  ..................................................... 225
Rafal Deja and Dominik Slezak (Warsaw University, Poland)

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Author Index ............................................................................... 232
Titel Index ................................................................................ 233