Abstract

In this paper, notions and methods of attribute reduction are investigated for an inconsistent formal decision context. Based on congruence relations defined on the object power set, we first introduce notions of distribution attribute reduct and maximum distribution attribute reduct for an inconsistent formal decision context, and discuss their relations in detail. We then define discernibility matrices and discernibility functions associated with the proposed attribute reducts, from which we can calculate all attribute reducts. Finally, we compare the proposed consistent sets with four types of consistent sets in previously published papers. The results show that a distribution consistent set belongs to any of those four types of consistent sets. Therefore, it has all the properties of those four types of consistent sets.

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