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Rough set has been shown to be a valuable approach to mine rules from a remote monitoring manufacturing process. In this research, an application of the fuzzy set theory with the fuzzy variable precision rough set approach for mining the causal relationship rules from the database of a remote monitoring manufacturing process is presented. The membership function in the fuzzy set theory is used to transfer the data entries into fuzzy sets, and the fuzzy variable precision rough set approach is applied to extract rules from the fuzzy sets. It is found that the induced rules are identical to the practical knowledge and fault diagnosis thinking of human operators. The induced rules are then compared with the rules induced by the original rough set approach. The comparison shows that the rules induced by the fuzzy rough set are expressed in linguistic forms, and are evaluated by plausibility and future effectiveness measures. The fuzzy rough set approach, being less sensitive to noisy data, induces better rules than the original rough set approach.
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Hou, TH.(., Huang, CC. Application of fuzzy logic and variable precision rough set approach in a remote monitoring manufacturing process for diagnosis rule induction. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 15, 395–408 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JIMS.0000026576.00445.d8
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