Incomplete information: rough set analysis (Q5906796)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This interesting and inspiring book surveys the state of the art in the field of rough set or approximation space based analysis of incomplete information. An introductory chapter of the editor which sketches the notion of information system and their related algebras and logics is followed by seven parts devoted to different topics and each divided into two or three chapters. Part I is devoted to decision theory and mainly concerned with problems of the learning of decision rules and feature extraction. The treatment of inconsistent basic information is part of the discussion, as is the consideration of some particular learning algorithms. Part II discusses algebraic structures which are in a natural way related to rough sets and approximation spaces, as e.g. are Nelson-algebras, three-valued Lukasiewicz-algebras, some types of chain-based algebras, and different relation algebras. Part III is concerned with dependence spaces and their theory, essentially from a purely mathematical point of view. Data constraints and data dependencies are treated in Part IV via suitable logical and algebraic systems. And approaches via formal logics and algebraic systems are also basic for the treatment of indiscernibility-based reasoning in Part IV which focusses on inferences in presence of indiscernibilities, the relation between indiscernibility and identity, and has also a chapter on rough set related mereology and morphology. Similarity-based reasoning and logical systems related to it form the main topic of Part VI which essentially exceeds the purely rough set related considerations. And the final Part VII is completely devoted to investigations on systems of formal logic strongly tied to the inferential treatment of rough set related incomplete information. Each chapter is a separate paper, and has its own list of references -- which unfortunately have not been combined into a common list. But the most unpleasant fact is that there is no index at all.