The amount of data collected across various sources in real life situations is never in its complete form. That is, it is never precise or it never gives definite knowledge. It always contains uncertainty and vagueness. Therefore, most of our traditional tools for formal modelling, reasoning and computing can not handle efficiently. Therefore, it is very challenging to organize this data in formal system which provides information in more relevant, useful, and structured manner. There are many techniques available for knowledge extraction form this high dimensional data. This chapter discusses various rough computing based knowledge extraction techniques to obtain meaningful knowledge from large amount of data. A real life example is provided to show the viability of the proposed research.

Debi Prasanna Acharjya

Department of Computational Intelligence

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Vellore Campus

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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Improving Knowledge Discovery through the Integration of Data Mining Techniques Advances in Data Mining and Database Management

Behavioural finance has gained research interest among researchers because of investor behavior and market anomalies. Investor behaviour varies with demographics and geographic characteristics. Further, investor behavior towards a gold exchange trade fund is gaining research interest due to various factors. Not much research has been carried out in this direction, with the exception of some comparisons. Therefore, the performance of a gold exchange traded fund needs to be assessed from the investor behavior perspective. Additionally, the investors behavior contains uncertainties. Thus, there is a need for intelligent techniques for identifying the investors behavior despite the presence of uncertain behavioral characteristics. Therefore, to study uncertain behavior characteristic in gold exchange traded fund, in this article the authors employ a fuzzy rough set. They employ fuzzy rough quick reduct algorithm to find the superfluous attributes. Further decision rules are generated to identify the chief feature of investors' behavior towards gold exchange traded fund.

International Journal of Business Analytics

A Fuzzy Rough Feature Selection Framework for Investors Behavior Towards Gold Exchange-Traded Fund

In Indian economy, agriculture is the prime vocation that avails in the overall development of the country. Tamil Nadu occupies approximately 7% of the nation's population, with 3% of water resources and 4% of land resources at the country level. The crop suitability prediction is of prime importance to enhance the nutritional security to the developing country. Based on several crops grown in a particular place, and the availability of natural resources, one can identify the suitability of crops that can be grown in a particular place. To this end, many mathematical tools were developed, but they failed to include processing of uncertainties present in the accumulated data. Therefore, in this paper an effort has been made to process the uncertainties by hybridizing rough set on fuzzy approximation space and neural network. The rough set on fuzzy approximation space identifies the almost indiscernibility among the natural resources and helps in minimizing the computational procedure on employing data reduction techniques, whereas neural network helps in prediction process. The proposed model is analysed on agriculture data of Vellore District of Tamil Nadu, India, and achieved 93% of classification accuracy in validation. The model is compared with an earlier model and achieved 8% more accuracy while predicting unseen associations. © 2017, The Natural Computing Applications Forum.

Neural Computing and Applications

Crop suitability prediction in Vellore District using rough set on fuzzy approximation space and neural network

This article describes how agriculture is the main occupation of India, and how the economy depends on agricultural production. Most of the land in India is dedicated to agriculture and people depend on the production of agricultural products. Therefore, forecasting the accuracy of future events based on extracted patterns plays a vital role in improving agricultural productivity. By considering the availability of micronutrients and macronutrients of the soil and water in a particular place, the growth of a plant is determined. This helps people to determine the crops to be cultivated at a certain place. In this article, the forecasting is carried out using rough sets and genetic algorithms. Rough sets are used to produce the decision rules whereas genetic algorithms are used to refine the rules and improve classification accuracy. Accuracy of the classification rules is analyzed using different selection methods and crossover operators. Results show that genetic algorithms with a roulette wheel selection and single point crossover provides better performance when compared with other existing techniques.

International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications

A Rule Based Classification for Vegetable Production Using Rough Set and Genetic Algorithm

Marketing management employs various tools and techniques, including market research, to perform accurate marketing analysis. Information and communication technology provided a new dimension in marketing research to maximise the revenues and profits of the firm by identifying the chief attributes affecting decisions. In this paper, we present a hybrid approach for attribute selection in marketing based on rough computing and formal concept analysis. Our approach is aimed at handling an information system that contains numerical attribute values that are “almost similar” instead of “exact similar”. To handle such an information system we use two processes—pre-process and post-process. In pre-process, we use rough set on intuitionistic fuzzy approximation space with ordering rules to find knowledge and associations, whereas in post-process we use formal concept analysis to identify the chief attributes affecting decisions. © 2017

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IIMB Management Review

A framework for attribute selection in marketing using rough computing and formal concept analysis

Information and technology revolution has brought a radical change in the way data are collected. The data collected is of no use unless some useful information is derived from it. Therefore, it is essential to think of some predictive analysis for analyzing data and to get meaningful information. Much research has been carried out in the direction of predictive data analysis starting from statistical techniques to intelligent computing techniques and further to hybridize computing techniques. The prime objective of this paper is to make a comparative analysis between statistical, rough computing, and hybridized techniques. The comparative analysis is carried out over financial bankruptcy data set of Greek industrial bank ETEVA. It is concluded that rough computing techniques provide better accuracy 88.2% as compared to statistical techniques whereas hybridized computing techniques provides still better accuracy 94.1% as compared to rough computing techniques.

Journal	Improving Knowledge Discovery through the Integration of Data Mining Techniques Advances in Data Mining and Database Management
Publisher	IGI Global
ISSN	2327-1981
Open Access	0