The Entropy has been used to characterize the neighbourhood of a sample on the base of its k Nearest Neighbour when data are imbalanced and many measures of Entropy have been proposed in the literature to better cope with vagueness, exploiting fuzzy logic, rough set theory and their derivatives. In this paper, a rough extension of Entropy is proposed to measure uncertainty and ambiguity in the neighbourhood of a sample, using the lower and upper approximations from rough–fuzzy set theory in order to compute the Entropy of the set of the k Nearest Neighbours of a sample. The proposed measure shows better robustness to noise and allows a more flexible modeling of vagueness with respect to the Fuzzy Entropy.
Rough–fuzzy entropy in neighbourhood characterization
Maratea A.
;Ferone A.
2019-01-01
Abstract
The Entropy has been used to characterize the neighbourhood of a sample on the base of its k Nearest Neighbour when data are imbalanced and many measures of Entropy have been proposed in the literature to better cope with vagueness, exploiting fuzzy logic, rough set theory and their derivatives. In this paper, a rough extension of Entropy is proposed to measure uncertainty and ambiguity in the neighbourhood of a sample, using the lower and upper approximations from rough–fuzzy set theory in order to compute the Entropy of the set of the k Nearest Neighbours of a sample. The proposed measure shows better robustness to noise and allows a more flexible modeling of vagueness with respect to the Fuzzy Entropy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
