An expansion of fuzzy information granules through successive refinements of their information content and their use to system modeling

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Highlights：

• We discuss a way of building, refining, and generalizing information granules.

• Refinement of information granules is realized by assessing their information content.

• General optimization procedure of successive refinement of information granules is provided.

• Conditional Fuzzy C-Means is discussed as an efficient vehicle to realize information granulation.

• Discussed are granular decision trees as generic models with information granules.

摘要

•We discuss a way of building, refining, and generalizing information granules.•Refinement of information granules is realized by assessing their information content.•General optimization procedure of successive refinement of information granules is provided.•Conditional Fuzzy C-Means is discussed as an efficient vehicle to realize information granulation.•Discussed are granular decision trees as generic models with information granules.

论文关键词：Granular Computing,Information granules,Fuzzy clustering,Successive refinements,Information content

论文评审过程：Available online 26 November 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.027