Algebraic and Topological Aspects of Rough Set Theory Milan Vlach Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics 7 Monzen-cho, Tanaka, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8225 Japan m
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[email protected] Abstract—The main purpose of this talk is to show how some can expect that various notions and results of rough set theory widely known and well established algebraic and topological have their counterparts in other well established and more notions are closely related to notions and results introduced and developed areas of mathematics. Discovering and studying rediscovered in the rough set literature. relationships between the rough set theory and another field cannot do any harm and often may be useful because such I. INTRODUCTION relationships can enrich both fields and may help to identify Let V be a real vector space, that is, V is a nonempty set some underlying fundamental concepts and results. on which we have a structure consisting of two operations, The main purpose of this talk is to show how some widely addition of elements of V and multiplication of elements from known and well established algebraic and topological notions V by real numbers. The properties of these two operations are closely related to notions and results introduced and make it possible to define various classes of subsets of V. For rediscovered in the rough set literature. example, a set A in V is said to be convex when it has the following property: If x 2 A; y 2 A and 0 < α < 1, then II.