Rough Set Classifier Based on DSmT

Yilin Dong, Xinde Li, Jean Dezert
2018 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)  
The classifier based on rough sets is widely used in pattern recognition. However, in the implementation of rough setbased classifiers, there always exist the problems of uncertainty. Generally, information decision table in Rough Set Theory (RST) always contains many attributes, and the classification performance of each attribute is different. It is necessary to determine which attribute needs to be used according to the specific problem. In RST, such problem is regarded as attribute
more » ... problems which aims to select proper candidates. Therefore, the uncertainty problem occurs for the classification caused by the choice of attributes. In addition, the voting strategy is usually adopted to determine the category of target concept in the final decision making. However, some classes of targets cannot be determined when multiple categories cannot be easily distinguished (for example, the number of votes of different classes is the same). Thus, the uncertainty occurs for the classification caused by the choice of classes. In this paper, we use the theory of belief functions to solve two above mentioned uncertainties in rough set classification and rough set classifier based on Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) is proposed. It can be experimentally verified that our proposed approach can deal efficiently with the uncertainty in rough set classifiers.
doi:10.23919/icif.2018.8455552 dblp:conf/fusion/DongLD18 fatcat:pd3px3py5ne4xmfegifvc4ma74