International Journal of Advances in Intelligent Informatics
Vol 12, No 3 (2026): August 2026

A set-valued semantic approach for handling missing attribute values in incomplete information systems

Asma' Mustafa (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu Darul Iman, Malaysia.)
Rabiei Mamat (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu Darul Iman, Malaysia)
Iwan Tri Riyadi Yanto (Department of Information Systems, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Indonesia.)
Ahmad Shukri Mohd Noor (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu Darul Iman, Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2026

Abstract

In order to handle incomplete information systems, numerous extended rough set theories have been introduced, primarily because the classical version of this theory is limited to complete information systems. Even though these approaches can deal with incompleteness, however they have an issue due to poor performance in terms of uncertainty measures. Thus, this paper aims to handle incomplete information while improving the performance of uncertainty measures based on a new semantic interpretation using set-valued terms. Firstly, the interpretation of missing attribute values is proposed based on the semantics of set-valued information systems. The transformation from an incomplete to a complete one leads to a new information system called the Possible Equivalent Value-Set Information System (PEVS). Based on this system, a rough set model constructed from the similarity relation of a set-valued information system is developed. Similarity precision, which measures the similarity between sets of attributes, is also defined. Secondly, δ-rough set model induced by similarity precision is discussed. Based on this model, δ-accuracy, δ-roughness, and δ-approximation accuracy are constructed to measure the uncertainty in PEVS. Experimental analysis is conducted on real-life datasets to compare the performance of the uncertainty measures between the proposed approach and other rough set approaches. The results show that the proposed approach is feasible in handling incomplete information while providing better uncertainty measures in terms of accuracy, roughness, and approximation accuracy.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAIN

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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International journal of advances in intelligent informatics (IJAIN) e-ISSN: 2442-6571 is a peer reviewed open-access journal published three times a year in English-language, provides scientists and engineers throughout the world for the exchange and dissemination of theoretical and ...