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On minimal sets of graded attribute implications

Artificial Intelligence 2014-12-09 v2

Abstract

We explore the structure of non-redundant and minimal sets consisting of graded if-then rules. The rules serve as graded attribute implications in object-attribute incidence data and as similarity-based functional dependencies in a similarity-based generalization of the relational model of data. Based on our observations, we derive a polynomial-time algorithm which transforms a given finite set of rules into an equivalent one which has the least size in terms of the number of rules.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7076,
  title  = {On minimal sets of graded attribute implications},
  author = {Vilem Vychodil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7076},
  year   = {2014}
}
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