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We discuss work of Zdzisław Pawlak in the area of databases and the extension of that work to the theory of rough sets. In particular, we look at his motivations for introducing information storage and retrieval systems and how this, eventually, led to rough sets theory.
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Marek, V.W. (2013). Zdzisław Pawlak, Databases and Rough Sets. In: Skowron, A., Suraj, Z. (eds) Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30344-9_4
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