The Second International Conference on
Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing
(RSCTC'2000)

Banff Park Lodge, Banff, Canada
October 16-19, 2000

Call for Papers

Rough Set Theory, proposed first by Zdzislaw Pawlak in the early 80's, has reached a maturity stage. In recent years we have witnessed a rapid growth of interest in rough set theory and its applications, worldwide. Various real life applications of rough sets have shown their usefulness in many domains. It is felt useful to sum up the present state of rough set theory and its applications, outline new areas of development and, last but not least, to work out further relationships with such areas as soft computing, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent information systems, synthesis and analysis of complex objects and non-conventional models of computation. The First International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'98) was held successfully in Poland in 1998. RSCTC'2000 will be the second conference of this kind. Both RSCTC'98 and RSCTC'2000 grew out of a series of annual International Workshops devoted to the subject of rough sets held alternatively in Canada, Japan, Poland and USA. The aim of RSCTC'2000 is to bring together researchers from diverse fields of expertise in order to facilitate mutual understanding and cooperation and to help in cooperative work aimed at new hybrid paradigms.

The conference is devoted to the following topics:

rough set theory and applications

fuzzy set theory and applications

knowledge discovery and data mining

machine learning

computing with words

granular computing

neural networks

evolutionary computing

Petri nets and concurrency

pattern recognition and image processing

non-classical logic

approximate and uncertain reasoning

statistical inference

spatial reasoning

logical aspects of soft computing

complexity aspects of soft computing

applications of soft computing

decision support systems

multi-agent systems

hybrid and integrated intelligent systems

Paper Submission

Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Please send LaTex (MS-Words, PDF, or Html) and PostScript versions of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by May 15, 2000 to:
rs2000@cs.uregina.ca Please also submit Four (4) hard-copies of your paper by May 15, 2000 to:

Yiyu Yao (RSCTC'2000)
Department of Computer Science
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada S4S 0A2

E-mail: {ziarko, yyao}@cs.uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-5213/5226
Fax: (306) 585-4745

Your paper should be less than ten (10) single-spaced, single-column pages including all figures, tables, and references. The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address, email, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords.

When preparing your paper, please read the Information for Authors and use the style files for Proceedings and Other Multi-Author Volumes supplied by Springer-Verlag regarding Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Workshop and Special Session

If you are interested in organizing a workshop, a special or an invited session, please contact Professor W. Ziarko at ziarko@cs.uregina.ca.

Publication

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). LNCS is also published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic version. Authors of accepted paper must also prepare an electronic version of the paper.

A selected number of RSCTC'2000 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag, or "Fundamenta Informaticae" by IOS Press.