2012

• May - Mr. Ying Zhou joined us.
  • Ying is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at.

• May - new publication
  • N. Azam, J. T. Yao, Classifying Attributes with Game-theoretic Rough Sets, in Watada, Watanabe, Phillips-Wren, Howlett and Jain (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4rd International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT'12), Gifu, Japan, May 23-25, 2012, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Vol. 15, pp.175-184
  • N. Azam, J. T. Yao, Game-theoretic Rough Sets for Feature Selection, in Skowron and Suraj (Eds.), Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems - Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak in Memoriam (Volume 2), Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 43, pp.61-78, 2012.

• April - funding news
  • I got my NSERC Discovery Grant renewed.

• April - Prof. Liang and Prof Li went back to China.

• March - Department news
  • Department Researchers Lead the University of Regina As the Most Cited, According to Microsoft Academic Website. I ranked the 5th, after Drs. Yao, Wong (retired), Ziarko(on leave) and Hamilton, in the department.

• Feb - special issue
  I'm editing an RSKT'11 special issue in Fundamenta Informaticae, the submission deadline is on July 15, 2012 and we plan to publish the special issue in 2013.

• Feb - special issue
  I'm editing a special issue on Decision-Theoretic Rough Sets in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, the submission deadline is on July 15, 2012 and we plan to publish the special issue in early 2013.

• Feb - new publication
  • X.P. Yang and J.T. Yao, Modelling Multi-agent three-way Decisions with Decision-theoretic Rough Sets, Fundamenta Informaticae, 115(2-3):157-171, 2012.

• Feb - new publication
  • N. Azam, J. T. Yao, Classifying Attributes with Game-theoretic Rough Sets, Accepted for publication in proceedings of IDT'12, Gifu, Japan, May 23-25, 2012.

• Feb - new publication
  • N. Azam, J. T. Yao, Game-theoretic Rough Sets for Feature Selection, accepted for publication in an ISRL book dedicated to the memory of Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak (edited by Andrzej Skowron and Zbigniew Suraj).

• Jan - new publication (in April issue)
  • N. Azam, J. T. Yao, Comparison of Term Frequency and Document Frequency Based Feature Selection Metrics in Text Categorization, Expert Systems with Applications, 39(5):4760-4768, 2012.

• Jan - Ms Yan Zhang joined us.
  • Yan is a PhD student under my supervision and her office is at CL115.1 (Phone 4009).

2011

• Dec - Search committee
  • Served on the search committee for a tenure track position of CS

• Nov - Department news
  • CS Profs Rank Among Most Cited at the University

• Oct - Dr. Jiye Liang and Dr. Deyu Li joined us.
  • Dr. Liang and Dr. Li are visiting scholars from Shanxi University. They will be with us for a half year. Their office is CW307.13

• Oct
  • Organized the 6th International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology, Banff, Canada, Oct 9-12, 2011,

• Oct - new publications
  • J.T. Yao, S. Ramanna, G.Y. Wang and Z. Suraj (Eds), Rough Set and Knowledge Technology, the 6th International Conference, RSKT 2011, Banff, Canada, Oct 9-12, 2011, LNCS(LNAI) 6954, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2011.
  • J. P. Herbert and J.T. Yao, Analysis of Data-Driven Parameters in Game-Theoretic Rough Sets, RSKT 2011, Banff, Canada, Oct 9-12, 2011, LNCS(LNAI) 6954, pp.447-456, 2011.

• Sept - Nouman's paper entitled "Comparison of Term Frequency and Document Frequency Based Feature Selection Metrics in Text Categorization" has been accepted by Expert Systems with Applications, which ranked the third worldwide for intelligent systems/AI-related journals, according to the most recent Thomson impact factors.

• Sept - Ms. Sojung Kim joined us.
  • Sojung is an MSc student under my supervision and her office is at CL115.1.

• Aug
  • Attended The First International Workshop on Climate Informatics

• June
  • Nouman recieves FGSR Dean's Scholarship.

• June
  • I have been identified as one of the top 20 researchers at the University of Regina by InCites.

• June -new publication
  • N. Azam and J. T. Yao, Incorporating Game Theory in Feature Selection for Text Categorization, RSFDGrC 2011, Moscow, Russia, June 25-27, 2011, LNCS(LNAI) 6743, pp215-222, 2011.

• April -new publication
  • J.P. Herbert, J.T. Yao, Game-theoretic Rough Sets, Fundamenta Informaticae, 108(3-4):267-286, 2011.

• March - Nouman's paper entitled "Incorporating Game Theory in Feature Selection for Text Categorization" has been accepted by RSFDGrC'11.

• March - Prof. Liu went back to China.

2010

• Nov - Joe had oral defense on Nov 16 and he passed. Congratulations!

• Oct - new publication
  • X.P. Yang, J.T. Yao, A Multi-agent Decision-Theoretic Rough Set Model, RSKT'10, Beijing, China, October 15-17, 2010, LNCS 6401, pp711-718

• Oct - new publication
  • D.W. Kim and J.T. Yao, A Treasure Hunt Model for Inquiry-based Learning in the Development of a Web-based Learning Support System, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 16(14):1853-1881, 2010

• September - Prof. Yang went back to China.

• June - GrC book published: J. T. Yao (Eds), Novel Developments in Granular Computing: Applications for Advanced Human Reasoning and Soft Computation, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-60566-324-1

• May - Mr. Nouman Azam joined us.
  • Nouman is a PhD student under my supervision. His office is at CW308.04.

• March - WSS book published: J. T. Yao (Eds), Web-based Support Systems, London: Springer, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-84882-627-4

• March - Dr. Jun Liu joined us.
  • Dr. Liu is a visiting scholar from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. He will be with us for a year.

2009

• September - Prof. Xiaoping Yang joined us.
  • Prof. Yang is a visiting scholar from Zhejiang Ocean University. He will be with us for a year.

• September - Mr. Mehdi Sadeqi joined us.
  • Mehdi is a PhD student under my supervision.