Incorporating Game-Theoretic Rough Sets in Web-Based Medical Decision Support Systems

Abstract

Web-based support systems (WSS) assist human activities with the modern Web technology. An important branch of WSS is Web-based decision support systems that provide intelligent support for decision making tasks. We focus on decision making in Web-based medical decision support systems (WMDSS) that can provide support for making diagnosis and treatment decisions. The use of game-theoretic rough set (GTRS) component in WMDSS is explored and investigated for this purpose. The GTRS is a recent development in rough sets that takes advantages from data analysis capabilities of rough sets complimented with decision analysis abilities of game theory. The GTRS may be used to obtain rough sets based three-way or ternary decisions by determining a pair of threshold values. Demonstrative example suggests that the GTRS may be considered as an alternative decision making model and component in building WMDSS for providing decision support.