Mata—information generation in distributed information system

The authors discuss the concept of meta-information which is the desription of information system or its subsystems,and proposes algorithms for meta-information generation.Meta-information can be generated in parallel mode and network computation can be used to accelerate meta-information generation.Most existing rough set methods assume information system to be centralized and cannot be applied directly in distributed information system.Data integration ,which is costly,is necessary for such existing methods.However,meta-information integration will eliminate the need of data integration in many cases,since many rough set operations can be done straightforward based on meta-information,and many existing methods can be modified based on meta-information.