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Improvement of the approximations and accuracy measure of a rough set using somewhere dense sets

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Rough set theory is a non-statistical approach to handle uncertainty and uncertain knowledge. It is characterized by two methods called classification (lower and upper approximations) and accuracy measure. The closeness of notions and results in topology and rough set theory motivates researchers to explore the topological aspects and their applications in rough set theory. To contribute to this area, this paper applies a topological concept called “somewhere dense sets” to improve the approximations and accuracy measure in rough set theory. We firstly discuss further topological properties of somewhere dense and cs-dense sets and give explicitly formulations to calculate S-interior and S-closure operators. Then, we utilize these two sets to define new concepts in rough set context such as SD-lower and SD-upper approximations, SD-boundary region, and SD-accuracy measure of a subset. We establish the fundamental properties of these concepts as well as show their relationships with the previous ones. In the end, we compare the current method of approximations with the previous ones and provide two examples to elucidate that the current method is more accurate.

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Al-shami, T.M. Improvement of the approximations and accuracy measure of a rough set using somewhere dense sets. Soft Comput 25, 14449–14460 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-06358-0

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