+-------------------------------+ | | | Second CALL FOR PAPERS | | | +-------------------------------+ 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 ---------------------------------------------------- Update: Paper submission deadline: July 1, 1998. Publications: Extended version of workshop papers will be selected, under a second review, to be included in a book published by Springer-Verlag. More information will be provided in the acceptance letter of the workshop papers. ----------------------------------------------------- *************** 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 The full four-page papers should be submitted by July 1,1998 to Yiyu Yao at the above address. 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 ======================== Information about JCIS'98 Conference Web site: http://www.ee.duke.edu/JCIS98/ ************************************************** * Fourth Joint Conference on Information Sciences * ************************************************** HONORARY CONFERENCE CHAIRS Lotfi A. Zadeh & Azriel Rosenfeld October 23, 1998 (Tutorials) October 24-28, 1998 (Conferences) ******************************** THEME *********************************** * * * * * INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS & COMPLEXITY: * * * * SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS AND SPECTRUM OF APPLICATIONS * * * **************************************************************************** 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 ==================================================================== 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 ==================================================================== 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 ******************************************* * IMPORTANT DEADLINES TO REMEMBER * ******************************************* 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