Incremental fuzzy probability decision-theoretic approaches to dynamic three-way approximations

As a special model of three-way decision, three-way approximations in the fuzzy probability space can be interpreted, represented, and implemented as dividing the universe into three pair-wise disjoint regions, i.e., the positive, negative and boundary regions, which are transformed from the fuzzy membership grades with respect to the fuzzy concept. To consider the temporality and uncertainty of data simultaneously, this paper focuses on the integration of dynamics and fuzziness in the context of three-way approximations. We analyze and investigate three types of fuzzy conditional probability functions based on the fuzzy T-norm operators. Besides, we introduce the matrix-based fuzzy probability decision-theoretic models to dynamic three-way approximations based on the principle of least cost. Subsequently, to solve the time-consuming computational problem, we design the incremental algorithms by the updating strategies of matrices when the attributes evolve over time. Finally, a series of comparative experiments is reported to demonstrate and verify the performance of proposed models. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.