2024
- CS Ed Week
- Dec 10 Campus Visit Day - Experience Computer Science event. Talked to high school kids about Computer Networks
- Dec - Defense
- Sadia had her MSc defense on Dec 9 and she passed.
The title of her project report is
Credit Card Fraud Detection with Deep Multilayer Perceptrons.
Congratulations Sadia!
- Nov - New paper
J.T Yao and A. Sharma, Continual Federated Learning for Dynamic Data Environments, PACRIM'24, No. 10690192, 2024.
- Sept - Researcher ranking
-
In the 7th edition of Stanford Ioannidis's Scienence-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, I have been ranked #1,655 of 399,064 or top 0.41% researchers worldwide in the area of AI and Image Processing.
My rank is 83, 334 (top 0.81%) of 10,257,575 for all discipline researchers worldwide over 6 decades (1960-2023).
- Aug- New Students
- Rubaiyet Hossain Jawwad joined us.
Rubaiyet is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- Dm. Mehedi Hasan Abid joined us.
Mehedi is a PhD student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- May - Conference and talk
- Attended PACRIM'24, Victoria and presented a paper entitled Continual Federated Learning for Dynamic Data.
- July - Funding
- Received Mitacs BSI funding. Harsh and Satyam Singh will work their intership at PetDrifts for four months.
- June- New Students
- Ricardo Holmes joined us for four month internship.
Ricardo is supported by Mitacs GRI and his office is at CW308.04.
- Rongzheng Liu joined us for four month internship.
Rongzheng is supported by Mitacs GRI and his office is at CW308.04.
- May - Conference and talks
- Attend IJCRS'2024, Halifax
- Three-way Clustering: An Advanced Soft Clustering Approach, DT&M Research Group Workshop
Crandall University
- May - New Students
- Mohammad Shahedul Islam joined us. Shahedul is a PhD student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- Nermine Ben Amara joined us
for four month internship.
Nermine is supported by Mitacs Research Interns (GRI) and her office is at CW308.04.
- May - Keynote
- Three-way Clustering in Machine Learning, PICET 2024.
- Feb - Conference and talks
- Attend ICNC 2024, Hawaii and gave a talk on the topic of
"Incorporating Game Theory with Soft Sets"
- Feb - Special Issue
- Together with Dr. Dominik Slezak and Dr. Guoyin Wang, we are editing a special issue of "Rough Sets and Insightful Reasoning" in
Information Sciences, the deadline of submission is June 30, 2024.
- Jan - New Students
- Akshat Sharma joined us. Akshat is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
2023
- Dec - New Students
- Ankit Chouhan joined us. Ankit is a PhD student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- Dec - Conference talk
- Presented paper "Three-way Clustering: An Advanced Soft Clustering Approach", IEEE CSCI 2023.
- CS Ed Week
- Another Campus Visit Day - Experience Computer Science event. Talked to high school kids about Computer Networks
- Nov - Defense
- Chenqi had her MSc defense on Nov 29 and she passed.
The title of her thesis is Incorporating Game Theory with Soft Sets for Better Decision Making.
Congratulations Chenqi!
- Oct - Researcher ranking
-
In the 6th edition of Stanford Ioannidis's Scienence-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, I have been ranked #1,557 of 356,955 or top 0.44% researchers worldwide in the area of AI and Image Processing.
My rank is 82, 962 (top 0.86%) of 9,617,763 for all discipline researchers worldwide over 6 decades (1960-2022).
- Oct - Conference and talks
- Attend IJCRS'2023, Krakow, Poland and gave a talk on the topic of
"Cognitive and Social Decision Making: Three-way Decision Perspectives"
- Three-way Clustering: An Advanced Soft Clustering Approach, University of Warsaw
- Sept - Funding
- Received Mitacs BSI funding. Harsh will work his intership at PetDrifts for four months.
- Aug - New Students
- Sumaiya Nawsheen joined us. Sumaiya is an MSc student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
- Aug - Talk
- Recent Development of Three-way Clustering,
Joint Seminar on Granular Computing & Data Mining
- June - Highly cited paper
- June - New Journal Section
- April - New Students
- Sayeem Md Abdullah joined us. Sayeem is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- Feb - IRSS
- I will work as the president of International Rough Set Society (IRSS) for two years with Vice-president Chris Cornelis, Secretary Hong Yu, and Editor Lukasz Sosnowski.
2022
- Nov - Researcher ranking
-
In the new update of Stanford Ioannidis's Scienence-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, which ranks the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field across 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields over 6 decades (1960-2021).
I have been ranked #1,465 of 321,592 or top 0.046% researchers worldwide in the area of AI and Image Processing. My ranking is #52 among 239 Canadian researchers listed in the area of AI and Image Processing.
My ranking is #84,225 (top 0.92%) of 9,071,122 for all discipline researchers worldwide.
My self-citations excluded composite score is 3.5015. U of R has 18 researchers amongst the top list.
- Nov - Conference
- The 2022 International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (IJCRS'22) was held
November 11 -14, 2022 in Suzhou, China and online.
- Sept - New Students
- Yuhlaing Win joined us. Yuhlaing is an MSc student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
- Aug - New Students
- Yan Myo Aung joined us. Yan is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- Harsh Mendpara joined us. Harsh is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- July - Talk
- Three-way Clustering and Beyond. The 7th workshop on formal concept analysis and granular computing.
- June - Talk
- Game-theoretic Shadowed Sets, IFFBDAIC'21
- May - New Students
- Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Bhavika Rangwani and Akshat Sharma joined us
for their four month internship.
They are supported by Mitacs and their office is at CW308.04.
- May - New Students
- Clayton Dsouza joined us. Clayton is an MSc student co-supervised with Dr. Yiyu Yao and his office is at CW308.04.
- May - New Students
- Chenqi Li joined us. Chenqi is an MSc student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
- April - New Students
- Sadia Rahman joined us. Sadia is an MSc (project) student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
- Jan - Talk
- Advances in Three-way Decisions and Game-theoretic Shadowed Sets, CGCKD'21
2021
- Dec - Defense
- Yixing had her MSc defense on Dec 17th and she passed.
The title of her thesis is Sentiment Analysis using Part-of-Speech-Based Feature Extraction and Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
Congratulations Yixing!
- Suby had her MSc defense on Dec 8th and she passed.
The title of her thesis is Pneumonia Detection with Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
Congratulations Suby!
- Nov - Researcher ranking
-
I have been ranked #3,812 (1.5%) of the 253,359 researchers worldwide in the area of AI and Image Processing,
according to the Ioannidis (Stanford) researcher ranking (August 2021 data-update) of the
top 2% of World's living and active scientists by impact (based on Scopus citations excluding self-citations) across all disciplines,
My ranking is #45 among 180 Canadian researchers listed in the area of AI and Image Processing.
My ranking is #84,169 (0.98%) of 8,547,891 for all discipline researchers worldwide. My self-citations excluded composite score is 3.5015.
U of R has 16 researchers amongst the top 2% list.
- Nov - Talk
- Game-theoretic Shadowed Sets, SZU, online, Nov 28.
- Oct - Talk
- Artificial Intelligence, Granular Computing & Technical Writing, AHU, online, Oct 11.
- Sept - Conference
- IJCRS 2022 will be held in Suzhou, China. I will work as PC Chair.
- Sept - conference papers
- S. Singh and J.T. Yao, Pneumonia Detection with Game-theoretic Rough Sets, has been accepted for publication as a full paper at International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Dec 13-16, 2021.
- Y.X. Chen and J.T. Yao, Sentiment Analysis Using Part-of-Speech-Based Feature Extraction and Game-Theoretic Rough Sets, has been accepted for publication as a full paper at ICDM
Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), Dec 7th, 2021.
- March - Defense
- Mahedi had his MSc defense on March 3rd and he passed.
The title of his thesis is Analysis of Model Aggregation Techniques in
Federated Learning.
Congratulations Mahedi!
- Feb - NSERC DG
- Feb 8-12, NSERC Discovery Grants Evaluation Computer Science, online.
2020
- Dec - election
- I have been elected as Vice Precident of International Rough Set Society.
- Oct - Talk
- Game-theoretic Three-way Decisions, GT3WD-CGCKD20.
- Sept - CSearch presentations
- Both Mahedi and Suby were selected to present their research at CSearch conference. Congratulations to Mahedi and Suby!
- Mar - COVID-19
- We switch to remote teaching from March 20 due the outbreak of COVID-19.
- Feb - NSERC
- Ottawa, Discovery Grants Evaluation Computer Science
- Jan - New Students
- Suby Singh joined us. Suby is an MSc student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
- Yixing Chen joined us. Yixing is an MSc student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
2019
- Dec - Defense
- Xin had his MSc defense on Dec 20 and he passed.
The title of his thesis is An Analysis of User-oriented Attribute Importance Based on Three-way Decision.
Congratulations Xin!
- Sept - Visiting Scholar
- Dr. Yanli Sang of Shangxi University is a new visiting scholar and she will be wth us for one year. Her office is at CW308.4.
- Sept - New papers
- S.S. Ribeiro, D.A. Rezende and J.T. Yao, Toward a model of the municipal evidence-based decision process in the strategic digital city context, Information Polity, 23(3):305-324, 2019.
- H. Yu, L.Y. Chen, J.T. Yao and X.N. Wang,
A three-way clustering method based on an improved DBSCAN algorithm, Physica A, 535:122289, 2019.
- Aug - Faculty position
- Dr. Sergio Ribeiro has jonined Briercrest College as an Assistant Professor in August 2019. Congratulations to Dr. Ribeiro!
- June - PDF
- Dr. Davoud Aflakian is a new postdoct fellow and he will be wth us for a year. His office is at CW308.4.
- Feb - NSERC
- Ottawa, Discovery Grants Evaluation Computer Science
- Jan - New Student
- H. M. Mahedi Hasan joined us. Mahedi is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
2018
- Dec- Defense
- Pengfei had his MSc defense on Dec 5 and he passed.
The title of his thesis is Incorporating Three-Way Email Spam Filtering with Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
Congratulations Pengfei!
- Oct - Convocation
- Yan has been conferred the degree of PhD and Bingyu has been conferred the degree of MSc on Oct 19. Congratulations!
- Sept - Faculty position
- Dr. Yan Zhang has joined California State University San Bernardino as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in September 2018. Congratulations to Dr. Zhang!
- Sept - New paper
- Yan Zhang, PengFei Liu, and JingTao Yao,
Three-way Email Spam Filtering with Game-theoretic Rough Sets
has been accepted for publication at
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
February 18-21, 2019
- Sept - New paper
- Sergio Ribeiro, JingTao Yao, and Denis Rezende,
Discovering IMRaD Structure with Different Classifiers,
has been accepted for publication at
IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge,
November 17-18, 2018, Singapore
- July - Defense
- Bingyu had her MSc defense on July 4 and she passed. The title of her thesis is Exploring GTRS Based Recommender Systems with Users of Different
Rating Patterns. Congratulations Bingyu!
- June - Defense
- Yan had her PhD defense on June 29 and she passed. The title of her dissertation is Game Theoretic Approaches to Three-Way Decisions. Congratulations Yan!
- May - Visits
- Visited Beijing Jiaotong University and gave a talk entitled Game-theoretic Three-way Decisions.
- Visited Xi'an Jiaotong University and gave a talk entitled Game-theoretic Three-way Decisions.
- April - Long Service Recognition
- Reached 15 years of service milestone at the University of Regina.
- March - New paper
- Yan Zhang and JingTao Yao,
Determining Strategies in Game-theoretic Shadowed Sets,
has been accepted for publication at
17th International Conference on
Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems,
Cadiz, Spain, June 11-15, 2018.
- Feb - NSERC
- Ottawa, Discovery Grants Evaluation Computer Science
- Feb - New paper
- Nouman Azam, JingTao Yao and Mohammad Khan,
A Game-theoretic Rough Set Approach for Handling Missing data in Clustering,
has been accepted for publication at
the 31st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems,
June 25-28, 2018, Montreal.
- Outstanding Reviewers
Outstanding reviewer - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Achieved: December 2016
- Jan - Visitor
- Dr. Witold Pedrycz visited us and gave an excellent talk
"Linkage Discovery: Bidirectional and Multidirectional Associative Memories In Data Analysis",
Friday January 26 @ 10 am
2017
- Dec - New publications
- S. Bandyopadhyay, J.T. Yao and Y. Zhang, Granular Computing with Compatibility Based Intuitionistic Fuzzy Rough Sets, IEEE ICMLA 2017, pp378-383, 2017.
- S. Bandyopadhyay and J.T. Yao, A Decision Support System for Cancer Differentiation Therapy with Game-Theoretic Rough Sets, IEEE SMC 2017, pp710-715, 2017.
- Nov - Best Paper Award
The paper: M. Nauman, N. Azam, and J.T. Yao,
A Three-way Decision Making Approach to Malware Analysis Using Probabilistic Rough Sets,
Information Sciences (IF 3.36, Q1), 374:193-209, 2016,
has received the best paper award in
the 6th HEC (Higher Education Commission, Pakistan) Outstanding Research Awards 2015/2016 Competition. There were 37 rewards selected from 500 candidate papers, 4 in computer science.
- Sept - Visitor
- Dr. Yingjie Yang visited us and gave an excellent talk
"Grey Systems and Uncertainty Models in Computational Intelligence",
Thursday September 21 @ 10:30am
- July - Visiting Scholar
- Prof. Sergio Ribeiro is a visiting scholar and he will be wth us for one year. His office is at CW308.4.
- June - New publications
- J.T. Yao, O.A. Oladimeji, and Y. Zhang,
Fractal Analysis Approaches to Granular Computing,
In: Polkowski L. et al. (eds): IJCRS 2017, LNCS 10313
pp 215-222, 2017.
- Y. Zhang and J.T. Yao,
Multi-criteria based Three-way Classifications
with Game-theoretic Rough Sets,
In: Kryszkiewicz M. et al. (eds):
ISMIS 2017, LNCS 10352, pp 550-559, 2017.
- Feb - PDF
- Dr. Sibasis Bandyopadhyay is a new postdoct fellow and he will be wth us for 8 month. His office is at CW308.4.
- Jan - New publications
- H.U. Rehman, N. Azam, J.T. Yao, and A. Benso,
A Three-way Approach for Protein Function Classification,
has been accepted for publication in
PLoS ONE. PLoS ONE's impac faction is 3.54, it's a Q1 (top 25%) in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous), and Medicine (miscellaneous) domains.
2016
- Nov - Visitor
- Dr. Hui Yu of Northwestern Polytechnical University will be visiting us for a year. His office is at CW308.4.
- Oct - New publications
- N. Azam, and J.T. Yao,
Variance based Interpretation of Three-way Decisions Using Probabilistic Rough Sets,
V. Flores et al. (Eds.): IJCRS 2016, LNAI 9920, pp.209-218, 2016.
- Y. Zhang and J.T. Yao,
Towards Coordination Game Formulation in Game-theoretic Rough Sets,
V. Flores et al. (Eds.): IJCRS 2016, LNAI 9920, pp.155-165, 2016.
- Sept - New Student
- Oladunni Oladimeji joined us. Dunni is a PhD student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
- Sept - Visits
- Visited Simon Fraser University and gave a talk entitled Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
- June - New Student
- Adeniyi Onasanya joined us. Adeniyi is a PhD student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- May - Visits
- Visited Shenzhen University and gave a talk entitled Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
- Feb - Visits
- Visited California State University Dominguez Hills and gave a talk entitled Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
- Jan - New Student
- Pengfei Liu joined us. Pengfei is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at CW308.04.
- Jan - Project presentation
- Junlong had his project presentation on Jan 7 and he passed. Congratulations!
2015
- Nov - Talk
- Fellow talk at IJCRS 2015 entitled Game-theoretic rough sets: recent development.
- Nov - Visits
- Visited Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications and gave a talk entitled Game-theoretic Rough Sets and Three-way Decisions.
- Nov - New publications
- M. Nauman, N. Azam, and J.T. Yao,
A Three-Way Decision Making Approach to Malware Analysis,
D. Ciucci et al. (Eds.): RSKT 2015, LNAI 9436,
Springer, pp273-284, 2015.
- Y. Zhang and J.T. Yao,
Determining Three-Way Decision Regions by
Combining Gini Objective Functions and GTRS,
Y. Yao et al. (Eds.): RSFDGrC 2015, LNAI 9437,
Springer, pp392-403, 2015.
- Sept - Ms. Binyu Li joined us.
- Bingyu is an MSc student under my supervision and her office is at CW308.04.
- Aug - Editorial Advisory Board
- I'm on the Editorial Advisory Board of the book
Complex Data Mining Using Granular Computing Methods
to be published by IGI Global.
- July - Sabbatical
- I am on sabbatical leave from July 1 to 31 Dec, 2015.
- June - my book
-
Since its online publication on December 22, 2009,
Web-based Support Systems
has received a total of 5884
(2014: 2,167,
2013: 1,318,
2012: 538,
2011: 827,
2010: 1,034)
chapter download requests.
- May - New publications
- J.T. Yao, D. Ciucci, & Y. Zhang,
Generalized Rough Sets, Chapter 25,
The Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence,
Kacprzyk, Pedrycz (Eds.),
Springer, pp413-424, 2015.
- May - Fellowship
- I have been elected and appointed as IRSS follow.
2014
- Dec - Defense
- Nouman had his oral defense on Dec 5 and he passed. Congratulations!
- Nov - Awards
- Yan receives Verna Martin Memorial Scholarship
- Yan received SGI Graduate Student Traffic Safety Research Scholarship
- Aug - Special issue
- The special issue,
J.F. Peters, A. Skowron,
T.R. Li, Y. Yang, J.T. Yao, and H.S. Nguyen
(eds.),
JRS 2012 Special Issue,
Transactions on Rough Sets, Volume XVIII,
LNCS 8449, 2014 is
online.
- Aug - Defense
- Ying had his oral defense on Aug 18 and he passed. Congratulations!
- July - Publications
- J.T. Yao, N. Azam,
Web-based Medical Decision Support Systems
for Three-way Medical Decision Making with
Game-theoretic Rough Sets,
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (IF 6.3), (accepted)
- B. Majeed, N. Azam, and J.T. Yao,
Thresholds Determination for Probabilistic Rough Sets with Genetic Algorithms,
RSKT 2014.
- Y. Zhou, J.T. Yao,
A Web-based Learning Support System for Rough Sets,
RSKT 2014.
- June - Publications
- Y. Zhang, J.T. Yao,
Determining Three-Way Decision Regions with Gini Coefficients,
in C. Cornelis et al. (Eds.): RSCTC 2014, LNCS(LNAI) 8536, pp160-171, 2014.
- X.F. Deng, Y.Y. Yao, J.T. Yao,
On Interpreting Three-Way Decisions through Two-Way Decisions,
in T. Andreasen et al. (Eds.): ISMIS 2014, LNCS(LNAI) 8502, pp73-82, 2014.
- May - Special issues
- T.R. Li, Y. Yang, J.T. Yao, H.S. Nguyen, J.F. Peters, and A. Skowron, (eds.),
JRS 2012 Special Issue, Transactions on Rough Sets, Volume XVIII,
LNCS 8449, 2014.
- T.R. Li, H.M. Chen, J.T. Yao, and H.S. Nguyen, (eds.),
Advances on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology,
Fundamenta Informaticae, 132, 2014.
- April - Project presentation
- Yu had his project presentation on April 25 and he passed. Congratulations!
- April - Award
- Nouman received Saskatchewan Innovation Scholarship.
- Yan received Gerhard Herzberg Fellowship.
- March - Award
- Nouman received John Spencer Middleton and Jack Spencer Gordon Middleton Scholarship
- Nouman is one of the recipients of the 2014 Shen Kuo Research Exchange Program Graduate Students. He will present his research at North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China in May.
2013
- Dec - MSc
- Sojung successfully completed her MSc degree. Her theis title is "iScholar: A Mobile Research Support System"
- Dec - Publications
- J.T. Yao, N. Azam, Incorporating Game-theoretic Rough Sets in Web-based Medical Decision Support Systems, 2013 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Miami, Florida, USA, December 4-7, 2013, Volumn 2, 335-338.
- Dec - Awards
- Nouman receives Verna Martin Memorial Scholarship
- Yan received SGI Graduate Student Traffic Safety Research Scholarship
- Nov - Visitors
- Dr. Jian He of Beijing University Of Technology visited us.
- Oct - Visits
- Visited Henan Normal University and gave a talk entitled Obtaining Three-way Decision Thresholds with Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
- Visited Minnan Normal University and gave a talk entitled Obtaining Three-way Decision Thresholds with Game-theoretic Rough Sets.
- Visited Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and gave a talk entitled Game-theoretic Rough Sets and Three-way Decisions.
- Oct - Keynote speech
- Gave a keynote speech at CRSSC-CWI-CGrC2013 entitled Game-Theoretic Rough Sets and Three-way Decisions.
- Oct - New publication
- N. Azam, J.T. Yao,
Formulating Game Strategies in Game-Theoretic Rough Sets,
in P. Lingras et al. (Eds.): RSKT 2013, LNCS(LNAI) 8171, pp145-153, 2013.
- J.T. Yao, Y. Zhang, A Scientometrics Study of Rough Sets in Three Decades,
in P. Lingras et al. (Eds.): RSKT 2013, LNCS(LNAI) 8171, pp28-40, 2013.
- Sept - Special issue
- Completed editing of the special issue on Decision-theoretic Rough Sets in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. There are 12 papers in this special issue. The doi of the preface is 10.1016/j.ijar.2013.09.022.
- August - Keynote speech
- Gave a keynote speech at WISM-AICI'13 entitled Game-Theoretic Rough Sets and Multi-Criteria Decision Making.
- July - Awards
- Nouman received Sampson J. Goodfellow Scholarship. This is his third consecutive award.
- Yan received Gerhard Herzberg Fellowship and Sampson J. Goodfellow Scholarship.
- June -Visits
- Visited Zhejiang Ocean University and gave a talk entitled "Game-Theoretic Rough Sets and Multi-Criteria Decision Making"
- June - Award
- Yan received Saskatchewan Innovation Scholarship
- March - Award
- Yan received John Spencer Middleton and Jack Spencer Gordon Middleton Scholarship
- March - Special issue
- edited a Fundamenta Informaticae special issue with Andrzej Skowron, Guoyin Wang and Hung Son Nguyen Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology 2011. There will be 8 papers in the special issue.
2012
- Dec - Conference and visit
- Nov - Award
- Nouman received the FGSR Graduate Student Scholarly Research Award.
- Oct - Visitor
- Dr. Dominik Slezak of University of Warsaw visited us and gave a talk entitled "Two Case Studies of Rough Set Approaches to Data Mining and Data"
- Sept - new publication
- Y. Zhang and J.T. Yao, Rule Measures Tradeoff
Using Game-theoretic Rough Sets,
Accepted for publication in proceedings of BI'12, Macau, China, Dec 4-7, 2012,
LNCS 7670.
- Sept - Research space
- All my students are now at CW308.04, Granular Computing and Web-based Support Systems, phone: 585 4229
- Aug - IRSS
- I have been elected as IRSS Steering Committee Chair
- Aug - Conference and visit
- attended JRS'12 in Chengdu. I served as PC chair of JRS'12.
- visited Shangxi University.
- Aug - Publications
-
J. T. Yao, Y. Yang, R. Slowinski, S. Greco, H.X. Li, S. Mitra
and L. Polkowski (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing,
RSCTC 2012, Chengdu, China, August 17-20, 2012, LNAI 7413,
Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-32114-6.
- N. Azam, J. T. Yao,
Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis with Game-Theoretic Rough Sets,
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology,
RSKT 2012, Chengdu, China, August 17-20, 2012, LNCS 7414, pp.399-408.
- July - Defense
- Abdulaziz had his oral defense on July 24 and he passed. Congratulations!
- June - Scholarship
- Nouman received Sampson J. Goodfellow Scholarship. This is his second award.
- June - my book
-
Since its online publication on Mar 29, 2010,
Web-based Support Systems
has received a total of 1861 chapter download requests.
- May - Invited/Conference talks
- May 17, Tongji University, China, Game-theoretic Rough Set Model
- May 24, Classifying Attributes with Game-Theoretic Rough Sets, 4th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies, Gifu, Japan, 23-25 May, 2012.
- May 29, Hosei University, Japan, Game-theoritic Rough Set Model
- May - Mr. Ying Zhou joined us.
- Ying is an MSc student under my supervision and his office is at RIC 308.5.
- 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 4th 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.
- 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 - 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)
- 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
- 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.
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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 - 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 received FGSR Dean's Scholarship.
- June
- I have been identified as one of the top 20 researchers at the University of Regina by InCites.
- 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!
- September - Prof. Yang went back to China.
- May - Mr. Nouman Azam joined us.
- Nouman is a PhD student under my supervision. His office is at CW308.04.
- 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.