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A Proposition for Combining Rough Sets, Fuzzy Logic and FRAM to Address Methodological Challenges in Safety Management: A Discussion Paper

Safety, 2020

In recent years, the focus in safety management has shifted from failure-based analysis towards a more systemic perspective, redefining a successful or failed performance as a complex and emergent event rather than as a conclusion of singular errors or root causes. This paradigm shift has also necessitated the introduction of innovative tools capable of capturing the complex and dynamic nature of modern sociotechnical systems. In our research, we argued at previous stages for adopting a more systemic and human-centric perspective to evaluate the context of aircraft de-icing operations. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) was applied in the first stage for this purpose. Consequently, fuzzy logic was combined with FRAM in the second stage to provide a quantified representation of performance variability. Fuzzy logic was used as a quantification tool suitable for computing with natural language. Several limitations were found in the data collection and rule generation proce...

Risk Decision Making Based on Decision-theoretic Rough Set: A Three-way View Decision Model

2011

Rough set theory has witnessed great success in data mining and knowledge discovery, which provides a good support for decision making on a certain data. However, a practical decision problem always shows diversity under the same circumstance according to different personality of the decision makers. A simplex decision model can not provide a full description on such diverse decisions. In this article, a review of Pawlak rough set models and probabilistic rough set models is presented, and a three-way view decision model based on decision-theoretic rough set model is proposed, in which optimistic decision, pessimistic decision, and equable decision are provided according to the cost of misclassification. The thresholds of probabilistic inclusion are calculated based on minimization of risk cost under respective decision bias. The study not only presents a new theoretic decision model considering the different personality of the decision makers, but also provides a practical explanation and an illustrative example on diverse risk bias decision.

Application of Rough Set Theory in Data Mining

Rough set theory is a new method that deals with vagueness and uncertainty emphasized in decision making. Data mining is a discipline that has an important contribution to data analysis, discovery of new meaningful knowledge, and autonomous decision making. The rough set theory offers a viable approach for decision rule extraction from data.This paper, introduces the fundamental concepts of rough set theory and other aspects of data mining, a discussion of data representation with rough set theory including pairs of attribute-value blocks, information tables reducts, indiscernibility relation and decision tables. Additionally, the rough set approach to lower and upper approximations and certain possible rule sets concepts are introduced. Finally, some description about applications of the data mining system with rough set theory is included.