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Rough sets theory is often used for extracting ifthen rules from categorical data sets with an objective function. In the conventional rough sets theory, the decision matrix method is known as one of the method extracting the rules. However, devising an efficient algorithm for the decision matrix method has seldom been reported to date. Consequently, this paper studies the process of reducing the...