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Mereology and Rough Mereology: Rough Mereological Granulation

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In this chapter, we embark on a more specific granulation theory, stemming from the mereological theory of things. This mechanism provides us with tolerance and weak tolerance relations forming a graded similarity in the sense of Chap. 1 and with resulting therefrom granules.

Ex pluribus unum

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    Lech Polkowski

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland

    Lech Polkowski & Piotr Artiemjew

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Polkowski, L., Artiemjew, P. (2015). Mereology and Rough Mereology: Rough Mereological Granulation. In: Granular Computing in Decision Approximation. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12880-1_2

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