Fuzzy-Rough Data Reduction Based on Information Entropy

Presently, many researches have been carried out on rough set based data reduction. However, this method encounters a problem when dealing with real-valued data and fuzzy information. By lucubrating the theory of fuzzy rough set and utilizing the definition of information entropy presented in literature [5], the information entropy model of fuzzy rough set has been constructed. Then the conditional information entropy of attributes is adopted to measure the significance of attributes. On this condition, a heuristic fuzzy-rough data reduction method based on information entropy (E-FRDR) has been put forward. Finally, the method is validated by an example that indicates the method is feasible.