%0 Journal Article %T Modular Approach with Rough Decision Models %A Ahmed T. Shawky %A Hesham A. Hefny %A Ashraf H. Abd Elwhab %J International Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process %D 2012 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Decision models which adopt rough set theory have been used effectively in many real world applications.However, rough decision models suffer the high computational complexity when dealing with datasets ofhuge size. In this research we propose a new rough decision model that allows making decisions based onmodularity mechanism. According to the proposed approach, large-size datasets can be divided intoarbitrary moderate-size datasets, then a group of rough decision models can be built as separate decisionmodules. The overall model decision is computed as the consensus decision of all decision modulesthrough some aggregation technique. This approach provides a flexible and a quick way for extractingdecision rules of large size information tables using rough decision models. %K Rough sets %K Fuzzy sets %K modularity %K Data mining. %U http://airccse.org/journal/ijdkp/papers/2512ijdkp07.pdf