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		   [   Editor: JingTao Yao  ]
		   [  University of Regina  ]

		    email: roughset@cs.uregina.ca

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1. Goals of the Bulletin

In its first phase, we see the Bulletin primarily as a means of
rapidly communicating abstracts of papers in the Rough Sets field of
study (see file rs.intro). These should be abstracts of (1) papers not
yet in print, (2) recently published papers, or (3) papers published
in difficult-to-obtain journals, and thus inaccessible to the greater
scientific community.  Additionally, the Bulletin may serve as a means
for researchers to present abstracts of work in progress, as a way of
initiating further communication in private with other interested
individuals.  Finally, the Bulletin may be used to communicate
announcements of interest to our community, such as conference
announcements, calls for papers, etc.

The Bulletin will also host an archive, containing back issues of the
Bulletin, as well as data and software contributed by the Community.

In the future, the Bulletin may be expanded as a discussion list
and/or mail server, and perhaps, one day, into a hardcopy version...

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2. Content and Format

Submissions to the Bulletin will be made electronically by sending
email to the Internet address:

			roughset@cs.uregina.ca

Comments and questions may also be sent to this address.

Relevant submissions should concern research involving:
	1) the fundamentals of Rough Sets;
	2) applications of Rough Sets to other theoretical studies
	   (e.g. Machine Learning, Uncertainty Management, Knowledge
	   Discovery, Image Analysis, etc.);
	3) applications of Rough Sets in systems;
	4) related research in Uncertainty management.

Other relevant submissions would include:
	1) conference announcements and Call For Papers;
	2) announcements about availability on the archive of
	   data/systems/results.

** If an announcement is particularly urgent, please indicate so in
the message, and I will endeavor to distribute it as quickly as
possible.


The Bulletin will be mailed out approximately once a month - depending
on the quantity of submissions.  It will be a compilation of abstracts
and letters as submitted by the contributor.  No editing or reviewing
will be done beyond checking appropriateness of content (leniently),
simple text formatting, and spell-checking.

The Bulletin will be sent out as a simple ASCII text file - no
processing or compilation will be required to read it.  In the future,
perhaps we may consider also generating a Postscript version in a
prettier format.

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3. Editors

The current editor the bulletin is JingTao Yao. (previous editors are 
Robert Golan and Michael Hadjimichael).  You can contact the editor 
at the Bulletin email address (roughset@cs.uregina.ca)
The mailing address is:

	Department of Computer Science
	University of Regina
	Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada

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4. Archives

Back issues of the Bulletin, along with data and software
contributions, will be archived at the University of Regina. They may
be retrieved via FTP from:

		    ftp.cs.uregina.ca  (142.3.200.53)

in the directory pub/ebrsc,

and via gopher from:
	
		    gopher.cs.uregina.ca

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If you are not currently subscribed, you may subscribe by sending a
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email address.

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