Granular Computing

Contents

Preface

The Author

Foreword

1    Information Granularity, Information Granules, and Granular Computing

1.1    Information Granularity and the Discipline of Granular Computing

1.2    Formal Platforms of Information Granularity

1.3    Information Granularity and Its Quantification

1.4    Information Granules and a Principle of the Least Commitment

1.5    Information Granules of Higher Type and Higher Order

1.6    Hybrid Models of Information Granules

1.7    A Design of Information Granules

1.8    The Granulation–Degranulation Principle

1.9    Information Granularity in Data Representation and Processing

1.10  Optimal Allocation of Information Granularity

1.11  Conclusions

References

2    Key Formalisms for Representation of Information ...