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

• Published in: Complexity (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 2017; no. 2017; pp. 1 - 33
• Main Authors: Bausys, Romualdas, Tavana, Madjid, Antucheviciene, Jurgita, Nilashi, Merbakhsh, Mardani, Abbas, Ibrahim, Othman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2017; Hindawi; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Analysis; Artificial intelligence; Classification; Data mining; Decision making; Expert systems; Fuzzy algorithms; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy sets; Fuzzy systems; Genetic algorithms; Information science; Information systems; Literature reviews; Machine learning; Methods; Pattern recognition; Remote sensing; Research methodology; Rough set models; Set theory; Studies; Systematic review; United States
• ISSN: 1076-2787; 1099-0526; 1099-0526
• DOI: 10.1155/2017/1608147

Rough set theory has been used extensively in fields of complexity, cognitive sciences, and artificial intelligence, especially in numerous fields such as expert systems, knowledge discovery, information system, inductive reasoning, intelligent systems, data mining, pattern recognition, decision-making, and machine learning. Rough sets models, which have been recently proposed, are developed applying the different fuzzy generalisations. Currently, there is not a systematic literature review and classification of these new generalisations about rough set models. Therefore, in this review study, the attempt is made to provide a comprehensive systematic review of methodologies and applications of recent generalisations discussed in the area of fuzzy-rough set theory. On this subject, the Web of Science database has been chosen to select the relevant papers. Accordingly, the systematic and meta-analysis approach, which is called “PRISMA,” has been proposed and the selected articles were classified based on the author and year of publication, author nationalities, application field, type of study, study category, study contribution, and journal in which the articles have appeared. Based on the results of this review, we found that there are many challenging issues related to the different application area of fuzzy-rough set theory which can motivate future research studies.