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School of Computer, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
Prof. Dr. Bin Xie
College of Computer and Cyber Security, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
Dr. Pingxin Wang
School of Science, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
Dr. Hengrong Ju
School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China

New Advances in Granular Computing and Data Mining

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Dear Colleagues,

Data mining has actively contributed to solving many real-world problems with a variety of techniques. During the last few years, several challenges have emerged, such as the occurrence of imbalanced data, multi-label and multi-instance problems, low quality, and noisy data. Granular computing provides a powerful tool for multiple granularity and multiple-view data analysis at different granularity levels, which has demonstrated strong capabilities and advantages in intelligent data analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning and uncertain reasoning. Based on granular computing, many new methods have been developed in order to solve the problem of big data analytics and mining. This Special Issue provides a platform for researchers to present their novel and unpublished works in the domain of granular computing and data mining. We are pleased to invite you, along with the members of your research group, to contribute to the forthcoming MDPI Special Issue, entitled “New Advances in Granular Computing and Data mining”. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Rough set-based data mining;
  2. Fuzzy set-based data mining;
  3. Knowledge-based granular data mining;
  4. Knowledge-based three-way data analytics;
  5. Machine learning;
  6. Three-way decision;
  7. Three-way clustering;
  8. Uncertainty analysis;
  9. Cognitive computing;
  10. Features selection.

Prof. Dr. Xibei Yang
Prof. Dr. Bin Xie
Dr. Pingxin Wang
Dr. Hengrong Ju
Topic Editors

Keywords

  • granular computing
  • data mining
  • knowledge discovery
  • knowledge discovery
  • uncertainty analysis
  • fuzzy set

Participating Journals

Journal Name Impact Factor CiteScore Launched Year First Decision (median) APC
Big Data and Cognitive Computing
BDCC
3.7 7.1 2017 18 Days CHF 1800
Entropy
entropy
2.1 4.9 1999 22.4 Days CHF 2600
Information
information
2.4 6.9 2010 14.9 Days CHF 1600
Mathematical and Computational Applications
mca
1.9 - 1996 28.8 Days CHF 1400
Mathematics
mathematics
2.3 4.0 2013 17.1 Days CHF 2600

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MSA-GCN: Multistage Spatio-Temporal Aggregation Graph Convolutional Networks for Traffic Flow Prediction
by Ji Feng, Jiashuang Huang, Chang Guo and Zhenquan Shi
Mathematics 2024, 12(21), 3338; https://doi.org/10.3390/math12213338 - 24 Oct 2024
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Timely and accurate traffic flow prediction is crucial for stabilizing road conditions, reducing environmental pollution, and mitigating economic losses. While current graph convolution methods have achieved certain results, they do not fully leverage the true advantages of graph convolution. There is still room [...] Read more.
Timely and accurate traffic flow prediction is crucial for stabilizing road conditions, reducing environmental pollution, and mitigating economic losses. While current graph convolution methods have achieved certain results, they do not fully leverage the true advantages of graph convolution. There is still room for improvement in simultaneously addressing multi-graph convolution, optimizing graphs, and simulating road conditions. Based on this, this paper proposes MSA-GCN: Multistage Spatio-Temporal Aggregation Graph Convolutional Networks for Traffic Flow Prediction. This method overcomes the aforementioned issues by dividing the process into different stages and achieves promising prediction results. In the first stage, we construct a latent similarity adjacency matrix and address the randomness interference features in similarity features through two optimizations using the proposed ConvGRU Attention Layer (CGAL module) and the Causal Similarity Capture Module (CSC module), which includes Granger causality tests. In the second stage, we mine the potential correlation between roads using the Correlation Completion Module (CC module) to create a global correlation adjacency matrix as a complement for potential correlations. In the third stage, we utilize the proposed Auto-LRU autoencoder to pre-train various weather features, encoding them into the model’s prediction process to enhance its ability to simulate the real world and improve interpretability. Finally, in the fourth stage, we fuse these features and use a Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) to model time dependencies, outputting the prediction results through a linear layer. Our model demonstrates a performance improvement of 29.33%, 27.03%, and 23.07% on three real-world datasets (PEMSD8, LOSLOOP, and SZAREA) compared to advanced baseline methods, and various ablation experiments validate the effectiveness of each stage and module. Full article
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Three-Valued Concept Analysis for 2R Formal Contexts
by Taisheng Zeng, Huilai Zhi, Yinan Li, Daxin Zhu and Jianbing Xiahou
Mathematics 2024, 12(19), 3015; https://doi.org/10.3390/math12193015 - 27 Sep 2024
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Russian Roulette is a well-known cruel gambling game and its concepts and methods have been exploited in a lot of research fields for decades. However, abundant useful information contained in the process of Russian Roulette is seldom studied with a mathematical model with [...] Read more.
Russian Roulette is a well-known cruel gambling game and its concepts and methods have been exploited in a lot of research fields for decades. However, abundant useful information contained in the process of Russian Roulette is seldom studied with a mathematical model with interpretability. To this end, we define the 2R formal context to model Russian Roulette and carry out 3-valued concept analysis for 2R formal contexts to mine useful information. At first, the uniqueness of 2R formal contexts is discussed from a formal concept analysis viewpoint. And then we propose 3-valued 2R concepts and discuss their properties and the connections with the basic 2R concepts. Experimental analysis demonstrates that 3-valued 2R concept lattices can show many more different details compared with basic 2R concept lattices. Finally, a case study about a Chinese herbal medicine is introduced to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed model. Full article
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FutureCite: Predicting Research Articles’ Impact Using Machine Learning and Text and Graph Mining Techniques
by Maha A. Thafar, Mashael M. Alsulami and Somayah Albaradei
Math. Comput. Appl. 2024, 29(4), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca29040059 - 21 Jul 2024
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The growth in academic and scientific publications has increased very rapidly. Researchers must choose a representative and significant literature for their research, which has become challenging worldwide. Usually, the paper citation number indicates this paper’s potential influence and importance. However, this standard metric [...] Read more.
The growth in academic and scientific publications has increased very rapidly. Researchers must choose a representative and significant literature for their research, which has become challenging worldwide. Usually, the paper citation number indicates this paper’s potential influence and importance. However, this standard metric of citation numbers is not suitable to assess the popularity and significance of recently published papers. To address this challenge, this study presents an effective prediction method called FutureCite to predict the future citation level of research articles. FutureCite integrates machine learning with text and graph mining techniques, leveraging their abilities in classification, datasets in-depth analysis, and feature extraction. FutureCite aims to predict future citation levels of research articles applying a multilabel classification approach. FutureCite can extract significant semantic features and capture the interconnection relationships found in scientific articles during feature extraction using textual content, citation networks, and metadata as feature resources. This study’s objective is to contribute to the advancement of effective approaches impacting the citation counts in scientific publications by enhancing the precision of future citations. We conducted several experiments using a comprehensive publication dataset to evaluate our method and determine the impact of using a variety of machine learning algorithms. FutureCite demonstrated its robustness and efficiency and showed promising results based on different evaluation metrics. Using the FutureCite model has significant implications for improving the researchers’ ability to determine targeted literature for their research and better understand the potential impact of research publications. Full article
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A Granulation Strategy-Based Algorithm for Computing Strongly Connected Components in Parallel
by Huixing He, Taihua Xu, Jianjun Chen, Yun Cui and Jingjing Song
Mathematics 2024, 12(11), 1723; https://doi.org/10.3390/math12111723 - 31 May 2024
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Granular computing (GrC) is a methodology for reducing the complexity of problem solving and includes two basic aspects: granulation and granular-based computing. Strongly connected components (SCCs) are a significant subgraph structure in digraphs. In this paper, two new granulation strategies were devised to [...] Read more.
Granular computing (GrC) is a methodology for reducing the complexity of problem solving and includes two basic aspects: granulation and granular-based computing. Strongly connected components (SCCs) are a significant subgraph structure in digraphs. In this paper, two new granulation strategies were devised to improve the efficiency of computing SCCs. Firstly, four SCC correlations between the vertices were found, which can be divided into two classes. Secondly, two granulation strategies were designed based on correlations between two classes of SCCs. Thirdly, according to the characteristics of the granulation results, the parallelization of computing SCCs was realized. Finally, a parallel algorithm based on granulation strategy for computing SCCs of simple digraphs named GPSCC was proposed. Experimental results show that GPSCC performs with higher computational efficiency than algorithms. Full article
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