Acquiring Compressor Design Case Knowledge Using Rough Set Theory

Product design case databases contain a lot potential knowledge, which can tell us the relations among parameters and some interesting experience patterns. While designing product, it is supposed to support the designers to make decisions better. Therefore many researchers are trying to find an effective approach to discover the unknown knowledge. In this paper, we presented several algorithms which combining rough set theory and information entropy for knowledge discovery. With these algorithms, the potential knowledge was mined out from the original product design databases. It was generated in the form of several association rules. Also a case study was presented to demonstrate the process of these algorithms. And the efficiency was proved at last. It turns out that the process of these algorithms could acquire knowledge from design databases effectively.