Title
On the coverings by tolerance classes
Abstract
A tolerance is a reflexive and symmetric, but not necessarily transitive, binary relation. Contrary to what happens with equivalence relations, when dealing with tolerances one must distinguish between blocks (maximal subsets where the tolerance is a total relation) and classes (the class of an element is the set of those elements tolerable with it). Both blocks and classes of a tolerance on a set define coverings of this set, but not every covering of a set is defined in this way. The characterization of those coverings that are families of blocks of some tolerance has been known for more than a decade now. In this paper we give a characterization of those coverings of a finite set that are families of classes of some tolerance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/j.ins.2003.12.002
Inf. Sci.
Keywords
Field
DocType
equivalence relation,similarity relation,neighborhood,tolerance,block,class,tolerance class,finite set,total relation,binary relation,maximal subsets
Discrete mathematics,Equivalence relation,Combinatorics,Finite set,Binary relation,Similarity relation,Total relation,Mathematics,Transitive relation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
166
1-4
0020-0255
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
36
1.62
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W. Bartol1362.30
J. Miró2361.62
Konrad Pióro3363.31
F. Rosselló4514.00