RSDMGrC'98
The Sixth International Workshop on
ROUGH SETS, DATA MINING and GRANULAR COMPUTING
Oct.23-28,1998
in
1998 Joint Conference in Information Science (JCIS'98)
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
RTP,North Carolina,USA
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HONORARY CHAIRS: Z. Pawlak, L.A. Zadeh
GENERAL CHAIRS:
T.Y. Lin
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
San Jose State University
San Jose, California 95192, USA
Tel: 408-924-5121
e-mail: tylin@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU,
Wesely Chu
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Los Angels, California
Tel: 310-825-2047
Fax: 310-825-2273
e-mail: wwc@cs.ucla.edu
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Anita Wasilewska
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York 11794-4400, USA
tel. (516) 632 8458
fax. (516) 632 8334
Internet: anita@cs.sunysb.edu
PROGRAM CO-CHAIR:
Sam Chao
Hughes Information Systems
Hughes Aircraft Company
2000 E. El Segundo Blvd.
El Segundo, CA 90254
Tel. 310 416-3185
e-mail: chaos@ucla.edu
ORGANIZING AND SUBMISSION CHAIR:
Yiyu Yao
Department of Computer Science
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Canada P7B 5E1
e-mail: yyao@flash.lakeheadu.ca.
HISTORY
The First International Workshop on "Rough Sets: State of the Art
and Perspectives" took place in Kiekrz, Poland on September 2-4,
1992. The participants were a true mixture of pure theorists and
down-to-earth practitioners. The workshop demonstrated that rough
set theory had already far reaching empirical and theoretical
consequences. The "Second International Workshop on Rough Sets
and Knowledge Discovery" (RSKD'93) was held in Banff, Canada in
October 12-15, 1993. Successive workshops: Rough Sets and Soft
Computing (RSSC'94, San Jose), Rough Set Theory (RST'95, North
Carolina), Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Machine Discovery (RSFD'96,
Tokyo), and Rough Sets and Soft Computing (RSSC'97, North Carolina)
proved the initial trends to be true. They demonstrated increasing
world-wide interest not only in the rough sets but also in its
connections with other fields and applications to those fields.
SUBJECT OF THE WORKSHOP
In early eighties, Pawlak introduced the theory of rough sets as
an extension of set theory for the study of intelligent systems
characterized by insufficient and incomplete information.
The successful applications of the rough set model in a variety
of problems have amply demonstrated its usefulness and versatility.
It also proved to have promising connections and applications to
other fields such as Knowledge Discovery, Fuzzy Sets and Machine
Discovery, Machine Learning and Soft Computing.
The amount of electronic data available is growing at a startling rate,
and this explosive growth in data and databases has generated a need for
new techniques and tools that can intelligently and automatically extract
implicit, previously unknown, hidden and potentially useful information
and knowledge from these data. Such tools and techniques are the subject
of the field of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) and Data Mining.
Granular Computing is a very natural concept, and appears almost everywhere
by different names, such as data compression, divide and conquer, chunking,
interval computations, neighborhood systems, and rough sets among others,
just to name a few. Granular Computing is, as pointed L.A. Zadeh, a
superset of the theory of fuzzy information granulation, rough set
theory and interval computations, and is a subset of granular mathematics.
The main subject of this workshop will be presentation of the most recent
research and applications of Rough Sets, Knowledge Discovery in Databases,
Data Mining, and Granular Computing.
We are especially interested in creating an open forum for discussion
of already established and new relationships between between these three
domains. We also look for contributions covering related topics.
These include neural nets approach and possibly other approaches to
discovery of patterns in data, acquisition of control algorithms from
data by using data mining techniques, data preprocessing techniques
and techniques for approximate representation and reasoning with
discovered knowledge.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Please submit approximately one page abstract of your presentation
by May 1, 1998 to Yiyu Yao at the above address. The full four-page
papers should be submitted by June 1,1998. Paper acceptance/rejection
letter will be sent out to authors by August 1,1998.
Electronic submission is recommended.
The abstracts and the papers will be reviewed by the members of
the Program Committee prior to inclusion in the Conference
Proceedings.
Final, camera-ready four page papers should be sent to P. Wang.
For detail information on submission of camera-ready papers,
deposit for each paper, early registration discount, and
accommodation, please read the enclosed materials of JCIS'98.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Anuradha M. Annaswamy, MIT, U.S.A.
Morteza Anvari, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A
Jame Bezdek, University of West Florida, U.S.A.
Nick Cercone, University of Regina, Canada
David Cheung, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Didier Dubois, Universite Paul-Sabatier CNRS, France
Ken Ford, University of West Florida, U.S.A.
Brian Gaines, University of Calgary, Canada
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, U.S.A.
Mike Hadjimichael, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, U.S.A.
J. Hsiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Y. Kuo, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Waldemar Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada
C.J. Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, U.S.A.
Pawan Lingras, Algoma University College, Canada
Qing Liu, NanCgang University, China
Teresa Lunt, ARPA, U.S.A.
Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Donald G. Marks, DoD, U.S.A.
Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University, U.S.A.
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
Toshinori Munakata, Cleverland State University, U.S.A.
Akira Nakamura, Meiji University, Japan
Shinichi Nakasuka, University of Tokyo, Japan
Charles Nguyen, Catholic University of America, U.S.A.
Setsuo Oshuga, Waseda University, Japan
Ewa Orlowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Zdzislaw Pawlak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Fred Petry, Tulane University, U.S.A.
L. Pollowski, Warsaw University, Poland
Henri Prade, Universite Paul-Sabatier CNRS, France
V. Vijay Raghavan, University of Southwestern Lousiana
Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, U.S.A.
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Krzysztof Slowinski, F. Raszeja Memorial Hospital, Poland
Roman Slowinski, Technical University of Poznan, Poland
Jerzy Stefanowski, Technical University of Poznan, Poland
Roman W. Swiniarski, San Diego State University. U.S.A.
H. Tanaka, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mitre, U.S.A.
S. Tsumoto, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
H. Chris Tseng, Hong Kong Productivity Council, HK
Anita Wasilewska, State University of New York, U.S.A.
A. Martin Wildberger, Electric Power Research Institute, U.S.A.
Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada
Trong Wu, Southern Illinois University
Yiyu Yao, Lakehead University, Canada
L. Zadeh, University of Berkeley, U.S.A.
Ning Zhong, Yamaguchi University, Japan
W. Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada
Xiaoling Zuo, Shanghai Jiao Tung University, China
Jan Zytkow, Wichita State University, U.S.A.
SPONSORS:
International Rough Set Society
BISC Special Interest Group on Granular Computing (GrC)
WWW page of RSDMGrC'98:
http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~yyao/RSDMGrC98.html
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Information about JCIS'98
Conference Web site: http://www.ee.duke.edu/JCIS98/
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* Fourth Joint Conference on Information Sciences *
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HONORARY CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Lotfi A. Zadeh & Azriel Rosenfeld
October 23, 1998 (Tutorials)
October 24-28, 1998 (Conferences)
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* INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS & COMPLEXITY: *
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* SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS AND SPECTRUM OF APPLICATIONS *
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FT & T'98: Sixth International Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology
Co-Chairs: George J. Klir & I. Burhan Turksen
CS & I'98: Fourth International Conference on Computer Science & Informatics
Co-Chairs: Keqin Li & Pan Yi
CI & N'98: Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence &
Neurosciences
Co-Chairs: Subhash C. Kak & Jeffrey P. Sutton
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RSDMGrC'98 : Sixth International Workshop on Rough Sets, Data Mining
& Granular Computing
Honorary Chair : Zdzislaw Pawlak, Lotfi A. Zadeh
Co-chairs : T.Y.Lin, Wesely Chu
Program Chair : Anita Wasilewska
Program Co-chair : Sam Chao
Organizing and Submission Chair: Yiyu Yao
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IC'98: Second International Workshop on Intelligent Control
Chair: John Baillieul
FEA'98: Second International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms
Chair: Cezary Z. Janikow
CVPRIP'98: First International Workshop on Computer Vision, Pattern
Recognition and Image Processing.
Chair: H. D. Cheng
Joint Conference Managing Chair
Paul P.Wang
Box 90291
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Duke University
Durham,N.C. 27708-0291
U.S.A.
e-mail : ppw@ee.duke.edu
voice : 919-660-5259
fax : 919-660-5293
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* IMPORTANT DEADLINES TO REMEMBER *
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MAY 1, 1998: Deadline for submission of tutorial proposals
June 1,1998 4 pages summary due
August 1,1998 Paper acceptance letter out to author
or rejection.All summaries will be reviewed
August 23,1998 $160 deposit due for each paper prior to
early registration discount deadline
September 1,1998 deadline for invited sessions
exhibitions proposal deadline
September 10,1998 final revised papers due
October 23,1998 JCIS'98 begins
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