Affiliations: Polish-Japanese Academy IT, Koszykowa str. 86, 02-008 Warszawa, Poland. lech.polkowski@pjwstk.edu.pl
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Address for correspondence: Polish-Japanese Academy IT, Koszykowa str. 86, 02-008 Warszawa, Poland
Note: [†] Also affiliated at: University of Warmia and Mazury, Słoneczna str. 54, 10-760 Olsztyn, Poland
Abstract: This work is dedicated to Profesor Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, the eleve of the Warsaw School of Logic and Mathematics on the occasion of His 85th Birthday. We propose to exploit certain of the milestone ideas created by this School and to apply them to data analysis in the framework of the rough set theory proposed by Professor Zdzisław Pawlak. To wit, we apply the idea of fractional truth states due to Jan Łukasiewicz, mereology created by Stanisław Leśniewski and the betweenness relation used by Alfred Tarski as one of primitive predicates in His axiomatization of Euclidean geometry. These ideas applied in problems of approximate reasoning permit us to formalize calculus of granules of knowledge and use it in preprocessing of data before applying a classification algorithm. Introduction of a mereological version of betweenness relation to data allows for partitioning of data into the kernel and the residuum, both sub-data sets providing a faithful representation of the whole data set and reducing the size of data without any essential loss of accuracy of classification. In the process of algorithmic construction of the partition of data into the kernel and the residuum, we exploit the Dual Indiscernibility Matrix which further allows us to introduce notions of a pair classifier and, more generally, k-classifier yet to be studied.
