Information Granularity, Information Granules, and Granular Computing
In this chapter, we briefly introduce the concept of information granules and processing of information granules. Information granules along with a faculty of their processing constitute an area of Granular Computing. We stress an omnipresent visibility of information granules in the perception of real-world phenomena, coping with their complexity, and highlight a role of information granules in user-friendly schemes of interpretation of processing results and the design of intelligent systems. Implicit and explicit facets of information granularity are noted. We elaborate on a variety of formal methods used to describe information granules and build the underlying processing ...
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