The Fourth International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC'2004)
The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Sweden
URL: http://www.lcb.uu.se/rsctc.php
June 1-5, 2004
Rough set theory, proposed by Z. Pawlak in 1982, is a model of approximate reasoning. The main idea is based on the indiscernibility relation that describes indistinguishable objects. Concepts are represented by lower and upper approximations. This time, the conference will include a special track onbioinformatics. Rough set theory is applicable in bioinformatics as can be seen from many publications showing its potential in biology, medical areas, nursing,etc. Other applications of rough set theory include a broad spectrum of areas, starting from financing and ending with music.
The bi-annual international conferences on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC) gather researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present state-of-the-art in rough set theory and its applications.
Conference History: RSCTC is an outgrowth of a series of annual International Workshops devoted to the subject of rough sets held alternatively in Canada, China, Japan, Poland and the USA (RSKD, RSSC, RSFDGrC, RSGrC series).
The first RSCTC conference was held in Warsaw, Poland in 1998. The second RSCTC conference was held in Banff, Canada, and the third in Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Aim and Scope The aim of RSCTC'2004 is to provide researchers and practitioners of Information Technology an opportunity to highlight new research directions, new applications, and a growing number of relations between rough sets and areas such as knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent information systems, multi-agent systems and bioinformatics. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Rough set theory and applications Applications of soft computing Approximate and uncertain reasoning Bioinformatics Complexity aspects of soft computing Computational intelligence Computing with words Decision support systems Evolutionary computing Fuzzy set theory and applications Granular computing Hybrid and integrated intelligent systems Intelligent decision support systems Intelligent information systems Knowledge discovery and data mining Logical aspects of soft computing Machine learning Multi-agent systems Multi-criteria decision analysis Neural networks Non-classical logic Pattern recognition and image processing Petri nets and concurrency Spatial reasoning Statistical inference Web intelligence
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 a Microsoft Word, postscript (PS) or PDF version of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page by January 15, 2004 to the web page: http://rsctc2004.med.shimane-u.ac.jp
If submitting via hard copy, please submit four (4) hard-copies of your paper by January 15, 2004 to:
Prof. Shusaku Tsumoto RSCTC2004 Department of Medical Informatics, Shimane University, School of Medicine (Formerly, Shimane Medical Univeristy) 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo 693-8501 Japan
Your draft paper should be less than ten (10) double-spaced, single-column pages including all figures, tables, and references. 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 5 keywords. When preparing your final 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). Springer-Verlag author instructions are available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Publication
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html. LNCS is also published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic version. A selected number of accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in journals "Advances in Rough Sets" by Springer-Verlag, "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag, or "Fundamenta Informaticae" by IOS Press.
Important Dates
Full paper submission by: January 15, 2004 Acceptance notices: February 9, 2004 Camera-ready papers due by: March 1 2004 Conference: June 1-5, 2004.
Organization Honorary Chairs
Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak Professor Lotfi Zadeh
Organizing Committee
Jan Komorowski (Sweden) Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan)
Program Committee (PC) PC Chairs Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan) Jan Komorowski (Sweden) Jerzy Grzymala-Busse (U.S.A.) Roman Slowinski (Poland)
Program Committee James Alpigini, Penn State University, U.S.A. Peter Apostoli, The Univ. of Toronto, Canada Malcolm Beynon, Cardiff University, UK Hans Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Cory Butz , University of Regina, Canada Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada Chien-Chung Chan, University of Akron, U.S.A. Andrzej Czyzewski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Jitender S. Deogun, University of Nebraska, U.S.A. Dieder Dubois, IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Ivo Duentsch, Brock University, Canada Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas. U.S.A. Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Drexel University, U.S.A. Masahiro Inuiguchi, Osaka University, Japan Jouni Jarvinen, Turku Centre for Computer Science, Finland Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Daijin Kim, Dept. of Computer Eng., POSTECH, Korea Jan Komorowski, Uppsala University, Sweden Jacek Koronacki, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Bozena Kostek, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A. Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, U.S.A. Chunnian Liu, Beijing University of Technology, China Qing Liu, Nan Chang University, China Pawan Lingras, St. Mary University, Canada Benedetto Matarazzo, University of Catania, Italy Lawrence J. Mazlack, University of Cincinnati, U.S.A. Ernestina Mensalvas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Nakata Michinori, Josai International University, Japan Sadaki Miyamoto, Tsukuba University, Japan Mikhail Moshkov, Turku Centre for Computer Science, Russia Tetsuya Murai, Hokkaido University, Japan Sestuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan Ewa Orlowska, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland Sankar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada James Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada Lech Polkowski, Polish Japanese Institute of Technology, Poland Sheela Ramanna, University of Winnipeg, Canada Vijay V. Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, U.S.A. Zbigniew.W. Ras, University of North Calorina, Charlotte, U.S.A. Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Nguyen Hung Son, Warsaw University, Poland Dominik Slezak, University of Regina , Canada Jerzy Stefanowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Jaroslav Stepaniuk, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland Zbigniew Suraj, University of Information Technology and Management, Poland Roman Swiniarski, San Diego State University, U.S.A. Andrzej Szalas, Linkoping University, Sweden Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University Jesper Tegner, Linkoping University, Sweden Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, Japan Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Alicja Wakulicz-Deja, University of Silesia, Poland Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Anita Wasilewska, New York State University, U. S.A. Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada Jakub Wroblewski, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland JingTao Yao , University of Regina, Canada Yiyu Yao , University of Regina, Canada Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada
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