Year2005
Start Date2005-09-01
End Date2005-09-03
NameThe Tenth International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC 2005)
PlaceRegina, Canada
IntroductionTHIRD CALL FOR PAPERS

RSFDGrC 2005

The Tenth International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets,Data Mining, and Granular Computing

September 1-3, 2005
Regina, Canada

http://rsfdgrc.cs.uregina.ca/

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Rough set theory, proposed by Zdzislaw Pawlak in 1982, is a model of approximate reasoning. The main idea is based on the indiscernibility relation that describes indistinguishability of objects. Concepts are represented by lower and upper approximations. In applications, rough set methodology focuses on approximate representation of knowledge derivable from data. It leads to significant results in many areas including, for example, data mining, machine learning, finance,industry, multimedia, medicine, and most recently bioinformatics.

RSFDGrC 2005 is a continuation of international conferences and workshops devoted to the subject of rough sets, held alternatively in Canada, China, Japan, Poland, Sweden, and the USA. RSFDGrC achieved the status of bi-annual international conference, starting from the year of 2003, in Chongqing, China.

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Aim and Scope
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RSFDGrC 2005 encompasses rough sets and fuzzy sets, granular computing, as well as knowledge discovery and data mining. We also welcome submissions addressing the connections of the main conference scopes to the following areas:

* Approximate reasoning and reasoning under uncertainty
* Computational intelligence and machine intelligence
* Decision support systems and expert systems
* Evolutionary computing and adaptive systems
* Human-computer interaction and multimedia
* Information retrieval and data warehouses
* Intelligent agent and web technologies
* Knowledge representation and visualization
* Layered learning and hierarchical learning
* Machine learning and statistical analysis
* Monitoring, security, and rescue techniques
* Multi-agent systems and distributed systems
* Multi-criteria and group decision-making
* Non-standard logics and relational systems
* Pattern recognition and image processing
* Petri nets and concurrency
* Signal processing and speech recognition
* Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning

We plan special sessions on applications to bioinformatics, medicine, industry, and environmental problems. We welcome any other proposals for special sessions as well.

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Chairs
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Honorary Chairs:
Zdzislaw Pawlak (Poland)
Lotfi A. Zadeh (USA)

Conference Chairs:
Wojciech Ziarko (Canada)
Yiyu Yao (Canada)
Xiaohua (Tony) Hu (USA)

Program Chair:
Dominik Slezak (Canada)

Program Co-Chairs:
Ivo Duentsch (Canada)
James F. Peters (Canada)
Guoyin Wang (China)

Workshop Chair:
JingTao Yao (Canada)

Tutorial Chair:
Marcin Szczuka (Poland)

Publicity Chair:
Cory Butz (Canada)

Local Organizing Chair:
Brien Maguire (Canada)

Conference Secretary:
Lois Adams (Canada)

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Advisory Board
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Nick Cercone (Canada)
Salvatore Greco (Italy)
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse (USA)
Masahiro Inuiguchi (Japan)
Jan Komorowski (Sweden)
Tsau Young Lin (USA)
Qing Liu (China)
Stan Matwin (Canada)
Ewa Orlowska (Poland)
Sankar K. Pal (India)
Witold Pedrycz (Canada)
Lech Polkowski (Poland)
Zbigniew Ras (USA)
Andrzej Skowron (Poland)
Roman Slowinski (Poland)
Zbigniew Suraj (Poland)
Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan)
Julio Valdes (Canada)
Jue Wang (China)
Bo Zhang (China)
Ning Zhong (Japan)

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Program Committee
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Mohua Banerjee (India)
Jan Bazan (Poland)
Malcolm Beynon (UK)
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Germany)
Gianpiero Cattaneo (Italy)
Chien-Chung Chan (USA)
Juan-Carlos Cubero (Spain)
Andrzej Czyzewski (Poland)
Jitender S. Deogun (USA)
Didier Dubois (France)
Maria Covadonga Fernandez-Baizan (Spain)
Guenther Gediga (Germany)
Anna Gomolinska (Poland)
Shoji Hirano (Japan)
Ryszard Janicki (Canada)
Jouni Jarvinen (Finland)
Licheng Jiao (China)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland)
Jacek Koronacki (Poland)
Bozena Kostek (Poland)
Marzena Kryszkiewicz (Poland)
Jiye Liang (China)
Churn-Jung Liau (Taiwan)
Pawan Lingras (Canada)
Chunnian Liu (China)
Benedetto Matarazzo (Italy)
Ernestina Menasalvas-Ruiz (Spain)
Duoqian Miao (China)
Sadaaki Miyamoto (Japan)
John Mordeson (USA)
Mikhail Moshkov (Poland/Russia)
Hiroshi Motoda (Japan)
Tetsuya Murai (Japan)
Michinori Nakata (Japan)
Hung Son Nguyen (Poland)
Sinh Hoa Nguyen (Poland)
Piero Pagliani (Italy)
Fred Petry (USA)
Henri Prade (France)
Mohamed Quafafou (France)
Vijay Raghavan (USA)
Sheela Ramanna (Canada)
Henryk Rybinski (Poland)
Hiroshi Sakai (Japan)
Zhongzhi Shi China)
Arul Siromoney (India)
Jerzy Stefanowski (Poland)
Jaroslaw Stepaniuk (Poland)
Roman Swiniarski (USA)
Piotr Synak (Poland)
Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng (Taiwan)
Dimiter Vakarelov (Bulgaria)
Alicja Wakulicz-Deja (Poland)
Hui Wang (UK)
Lipo Wang (Singapore)
Paul P. Wang (USA)
Anita Wasilewska (USA)
Jakub Wroblewski (Poland)
Keming Xie (China)
Zongben Xu (China)
Wenxiu Zhang (China)
Yanqing Zhang (USA)
Zhi-Hua Zhou (China)

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Invited Speakers (to be extended)
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Keynote Speakers:
Zdzislaw Pawlak (Poland)
Lotfi A. Zadeh (USA)
Vladimir Vapnik (USA)
Ronald R. Yager (USA)

Plenary Speakers:
Salvatore Greco (Italy)
Hung Son Nguyen (Poland)
Witold Pedrycz (Canada)
Julio Valdes (Canada)
Ning Zhong (Japan)
Dimiter Vakarelov (Bulgaria)

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Tutorials and Workshops
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On August 31, 2005, we plan student poster sessions, as well as lectures by representatives of the local research centres. We also welcome proposals for tutorials and workshops. All the materials concerning the August 31 activities will be attached to the main conference proceedings on CDs.

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Publication
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All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (please refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/fcp2004.html).

A selected number of accepted papers will be expanded and additionally revised for inclusion in the journal Transactions on Rough Sets (Springer-Verlag, LNCS journal subline). Depending on the number of high quality papers, possibilities of preparing special issues in other journals are open.

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Paper Submission Guidelines
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Paper format and submission details are available at the conference website http://rsfdgrc.cs.uregina.ca/

Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Please send a PDF version of your paper and an ASCII version of the cover page by February 14, 2005, via the conference website http://rsfdgrc.cs.uregina.ca/.

The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address,e-mail, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to five (5) keywords. Your draft paper should have no more than ten (10) pages in the LNCS style, including all figures, tables, and references. Please read the Information for Authors and use the style files for Proceedings and Other Multi-Author Volumes supplied by Springer-Verlag regarding LNCS.

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Registration
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The early full registration will not exceed $600 CAD (including the meals). The late full registration will equal to the early one + $100 CAD. The student early/late registration will equal to 50% ($300 CAD /$350 CAD) of the full early/late registration.

The early registration is required to print the paper(s) in the Springer-Verlag proceedings. The late registration entitles to including the paper(s) in the CD materials, but not in the Springer-Verlag proceedings.

One full registration entitles to include up to two papers in the conference materials. One student registration entitles to include one paper in the conference materials. Every additional paper can be included on the extra cost of $300 CAD.

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Other Activities
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Before the conference we can organize an optional trip to Moose Jaw - the city with a famous mineral spa, underground tunnels, and the Western Development Museum. Details will depend on a number of interested participants.

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Important Dates
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Full paper submission due: February 14, 2005
Acceptance notices: April 3, 2005
Camera-ready papers: May 1,2005
Copyright forms: May 1,2005
Early registration: May 1,2005
Late registration due: August 1,2005
Tutorials and workshops: August 31, 2005
Conference: September 1-3, 2005

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Contact Information
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For Further Information, please contact:

Dominik Slezak
Department of Computer Science
University of Regina
SK, Canada S4S 0A2
Phone: 1-306-5854597
Fax: 1-306-5854745
Email: slezak@cs.uregina.ca or rsfdgrc@cs.uregina.ca