Rough set theory is one of important methods of granular computing
and data heterogeneities are one of remarkable characteristics in big data.For data heterogeneities
we define attribute reduction for concepts after investigating intrinsic quality of attribute reducts
which can contain value reducts
Pawlak attribute reducts and parallel reducts.After investigating properties of concept-attribute-reduction
we present a new method to reduce redundant attributes and a new method to detect concept drift for heterogeneous concepts.Theoretical analysis and examples show that these methods are valid.This work provides a new type way for rough set theory and granular computing to integrate into big data.