“…Granules may be understood as groups, classes, or clusters of elements, which are drawn together by indistinguishability, similarity, proximity, or functionality [61] . Granular computing (GrC), serving as an effective tool of complex problem solving, massive dataset mining and fuzzy information processing, has become a very active field of research in recent years [1,2,20,29,31,35,39,40,43,44,48,51,[54][55][56][57][58][59] .…”