RT journal article T1 Rough sets based on Galois connections A1 Madrid Labrador, Nicolás Miguel A1 Medina Moreno, Jesús A1 Ramírez Poussa, Eloísa A2 Matemáticas K1 rough sets K1 Galois connections K1 approximation operators AB Rough set theory is an important tool to extract knowledge from relational databases. The original definitions of approximation operators are based on an indiscernibility relation, which is an equivalence one. Lately. different papers have motivated the possibility of considering arbitrary relations. Nevertheless, when those are taken into account, the original definitions given by Pawlak may lose fundamental properties. This paper proposes a possible solution to the arising problems by presenting an alternative definition of approximation operators based on the closure and interior operators obtained from an isotone Galois connection. We prove that the proposed definition satisfies interesting properties and that it also improves object classification tasks. PB UNIV ZIELONA GORA PRESS SN 1641-876X YR 2020 FD 2020-06 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23485 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23485 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 10-may-2026