Implementation of the attribute significance analysis with the use of soft reduction of attributes in the rough set theory on the basis of the SQL mechanisms

This article presents a way to use databases supporting the SQL and PL/SQL in the implementation of a method of attribute significance analysis with the use of soft reduction of attributes in the rough set theory. A number of SQL queries are presented, which facilitate the implementation. The original mechanisms presented previously [1] are supplemented with queries which facilitate the execution of attribute coding. The authors present a complete implementation of the method, from the coding of attributes to the determination of the significance of conditional attributes. Application of queries to the database eliminates the necessity to build data grouping and data mining mechanisms and calculation of repetitions of identical rules in the reduced decision rule space. Without the support of a database, the creation of universal data grouping and data mining mechanisms which could be used with any number of attributes is a challenging task.