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Granular Structures in Graphs

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Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT 2011)

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The granular structures emphasize a multilevel and multiview understanding of problems. This paper focuses on a study of how to granulate a graph, and how to extract the granular structures in the graph. The granular structures can be seen as an abstract, summary or epitome of the graph. Two granular structures extraction models are proposed, one is based on the degree of the vertex, the other is based on the weight of the edge. Each model is a multilevel representation, and the models integrated together presents a multiview comprehension of the graph.

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  1. International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology Beijing, 100124, P.R. China

    Guang Chen & Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, S4S 0A2, Saskatchewan, Canada

    JingTao Yao

  2. Department of Applied Computer Science, University of Winnipeg, R3B 2E9, Winnipeg, Canada

    Sheela Ramanna

  3. Institute of Computer Science & Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 400065, Chongqing, P.R. China

    Guoyin Wang

  4. Chair of Computer Science, University of Rzeszów, Poland

    Zbigniew Suraj

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Chen, G., Zhong, N. (2011). Granular Structures in Graphs. In: Yao, J., Ramanna, S., Wang, G., Suraj, Z. (eds) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology. RSKT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6954. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24425-4_82

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