Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology: 8th International Conference, RSKT 2013, Halifax, NS, Canada, October 11-14, 2013, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Using Domain Knowledge in Initial Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Databases....Pages 1-6
Non-deterministic Information in Rough Sets: A Survey and Perspective....Pages 7-15
Granular Computing and Sequential Three-Way Decisions....Pages 16-27
A Scientometrics Study of Rough Sets in Three Decades....Pages 28-40
Generalizations of Approximations....Pages 41-52
Expression and Processing of Uncertain Information....Pages 53-65
Early Development of Rough Sets - From a Personal Perspective....Pages 66-74
Contraction to Matroidal Structure of Rough Sets....Pages 75-86
Optimal Approximations with Rough Sets....Pages 87-98
Partial Approximation of Multisets and Its Applications in Membrane Computing....Pages 99-108
A Formal Concept Analysis Based Approach to Minimal Value Reduction....Pages 109-120
Comparison of Two Models of Probabilistic Rough Sets....Pages 121-132
Empirical Risk Minimization for Variable Precision Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach....Pages 133-144
Formulating Game Strategies in Game-Theoretic Rough Sets....Pages 145-153
Sequential Optimization of Approximate Inhibitory Rules Relative to the Length, Coverage and Number of Misclassifications....Pages 154-165
Robustness Measure of Decision Rules....Pages 166-177
Exploring Margin for Dynamic Ensemble Selection....Pages 178-187
Evaluation of Incremental Change of Set-Based Indices....Pages 188-199
Recent Advances in Decision Bireducts: Complexity, Heuristics and Streams....Pages 200-212
Studies on the Necessary Data Size for Rule Induction by STRIM....Pages 213-220
Applying Threshold SMOTE Algoritwith Attribute Bagging to Imbalanced Datasets....Pages 221-228
Parallel Reducts: A Hashing Approach....Pages 229-239
A Parallel Implementation of Computing Composite Rough Set Approximations on GPUs....Pages 240-250
GPU Implementation of MCE Approach to Finding Near Neighbourhoods....Pages 251-262
FPGA in Rough Set Based Core and Reduct Computation....Pages 263-270
Fast Approximate Attribute Reduction with MapReduce....Pages 271-278
Three-Way Decision Based Overlapping Community Detection....Pages 279-290
Three-Way Decisions in Dynamic Decision-Theoretic Rough Sets....Pages 291-301
A Cluster Ensemble Framework Based on Three-Way Decisions....Pages 302-312
Multistage Email Spam Filtering Based on Three-Way Decisions....Pages 313-324
Cost-Sensitive Three-Way Decision: A Sequential Strategy....Pages 325-337
Two-Phase Classification Based on Three-Way Decisions....Pages 338-345
A Three-Way Decisions Model Based on Constructive Covering Algorithm....Pages 346-353
A Hierarchical Statistical Framework for the Extraction of Semantically Related Words in Textual Documents....Pages 354-363
Anomaly Intrusion Detection Using Incremental Learning of an Infinite Mixture Model with Feature Selection....Pages 364-373
Hybridizing Meta-heuristics Approaches for Solving University Course Timetabling Problems....Pages 374-384
Weight Learning for Document Tolerance Rough Set Model....Pages 385-396
A Divide-and-Conquer Method Based Ensemble Regression Model for Water Quality Prediction....Pages 397-404
A Self-learning Audio Player That Uses a Rough Set and Neural Net Hybrid Approach....Pages 405-412
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