Formal Development of Rough Inclusion Functions

Rough sets, developed by Pawlak [15], are important tool to describe situation of incomplete or partially unknown information. In this article, continuing the formalization of rough sets [12], we give the formal characterization of three rough inclusion functions (RIFs). We start with the standard one, κ£, connected with Łukasiewicz [14], and extend this research for two additional RIFs: κ 1, and κ 2, following a paper by Gomolińska [4], [3]. We also define q-RIFs and weak q-RIFs [2]. The paper establishes a formal counterpart of [7] and makes a preliminary step towards rough mereology [16], [17] in Mizar [13].Institute of Informatics, University of Białystok, PolandAnna Gomolinska. A comparative study of some generalized rough approximations. Fundamenta Informaticae, 51:103–119, 2002.Anna Gomolinska. Rough approximation based on weak q-RIFs. In James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron, Marcin Wolski, Mihir K. 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