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Granule Formation Around Data

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The Puzzle of Granular Computing

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Hansel was a very smart kid. Unable to bring with him a ton of pebbles to mark the track from house into the woods, he used them as granules of information suggesting the way. Even better, he exploited their luminescence to give them an order, hence dealing with them as a sample of the road.

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Apolloni, B., Pedrycz, W., Bassis, S., Malchiodi, D. (2008). Granule Formation Around Data. In: The Puzzle of Granular Computing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79864-4_1

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