The Third International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing - Call for Papers Symposium Theme - Special Session on Distributed and Collaborative - Special Session on Web Inteligent Mining =========================================================== =========================================================== Rough Set theory was introduced by Zdzislaw Pawlak in the early 80's and has reached a level of high visibility and maturity. In recent years, we have witnessed diverse, as well as, widespread research in rough set theory and its applications worldwide. A considerable number of applications of rough sets in medicine, economics, finance, business, environment, electrical and computer engineering, a number of sciences, software engineering, and information science have been introduced in recent years. In addition, many rough set case studies and more than a dozen commercial, as well as, research rough set tools are currently available. The biannual international conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC) provides researchers from universities, laboratories and industry to present state-of-the-art in rough set theory and its applications. RSCTC’2002 will also make it possible for researchers and developers to highlight new research directions, new applications, and a growing number of relationships between rough sets and such areas as computational intelligence, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent information systems, synthesis and analysis of complex objects and non-conventional models of computation. RSCTC’2002 in the USA will be the third conference of its kind. This international conference was first held in Warsaw, Poland (RSCTC’1998). The second international conference was held in Banff, Alberta, Canada (RSCTC’2000). RSCTC grew out of a series of annual International Workshops devoted to the subject of rough sets held alternatively in Canada, China, Japan, Poland and the USA. The aim of RSCTC'2002 is to bring together researchers from diverse fields of expertise to facilitate dialogue and cooperation. Relevant topics included, but are not limited to: Rough set theory and applications Computational intelligence Machine learning Fuzzy set theory and applications Computing with words Granular computing Applications of soft computing Evolutionary computing Petri nets and concurrency Logical aspects of soft computing Non-classical logic Neural networks Complexity aspects of soft computing Spatial reasoning Statistical inference Pattern recognition and image processing Multi-criteria decision analysis Decision support systems Knowledge discovery and data mining Multi-agent systems Web intelligence Hybrid and integrated intelligent systems Approximate and uncertain reasoning To Submit 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 the Microsoft Word, postscript (ps) or PDF version of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by January 15, 2002 to jja7@psu.edu. If submitting via hard copy, please submit four (4) hard-copies of your paper by January 15, 2002 to: James Alpigini (RSCTC'2002) Penn State Great Valley 30 East Swedesford Road Malvern, PA 19355 USA E-mail: jja7@psu.edu Phone: (610) 648-3357 Fax: (610) 889-1334 Author Guidelines 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, email, 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. Student Participation Student participation is highly encouraged. Students not presenting a paper may attend the conference at a reduced fee that does not include banquet and proceedings. A special poster session will be held with an award for best student paper. 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) 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 "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag, or "Fundamenta Informaticae" by IOS Press. Selected papers will be invited for inclusion in a feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier Science. This issue will be composed of selected full papers presented at the conference on the topic of "Decision Support using Rough Sets". Workshop and Special Session If you are interested in organizing a workshop, a special or an invited session, please contact James Alpigini at jja7@psu.edu. Important Dates Full paper submission by: January 15, 2002 Acceptance notices: March 15, 2002 Camera-ready papers due by: May 15, 2002 Conference: October 14-16, 2002 =========================================================== =========================================================== RSCTC'2002 Special Session on Distributed and Collaborative Data Mining October 14-16, 2002 Penn State Great Valley SPECIAL SESSION: CALL FOR PAPERS The scope of this session is quite broad inside this topic. We want to include current works on: * Distributed/parallel algorithms. * Distributed data mining architectures. * Hardware/software support for distributed data mining: Load-balancing, Parallel I/O, distributed control. * Formal models for distributed data analysis. * Comparative (performance, behaviour, ...) studies. * Parallel pre/post-processing. * Information retrieval: distributed data sources. Any other contribution that may fit appropriate in this field will be welcomed. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). 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 "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag, or "Fundamenta Informaticae" by IOS Press. Please let me know as soon as possible if you would submit a contribution, in order to be able to schedule the session. We would be very pleased to get you at the conference. For any additional information, contact with me by e-mail at jmpena@fi.upm.es ================================================ Session deadline: 15th January 2002 Session homepage: http://nova.ls.fi.upm.es/hpda/Sessions/session_ddm.html Conference homepage: http://www.gv.psu.edu/Conferences/RSCTC2002/default.asp Conference dates: October 14-16, 2002 Penn State Great Valley (near Philadelphia) =========================================================== =========================================================== RSCTC'2002 Special Session on Web Inteligent Mining October 14-16, 2002 Penn State Great Valley The scope of this session is quite broad inside this topic including: * sessionizing * recommender-system * web-server intelligent configuration * web-usage mining * intelligent methods to obtain user profiles * web mining systems and architectures * e-commerce Any other topic related to this field is welcomed. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). 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 "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag, or "Fundamenta Informaticae" by IOS Press. Please let me know as soon as possible if you would submit a contribution, in order to be able to schedule the session. We would be very pleased to get you at the conference. For any additional information, contact with me by e-mail at emenasalvas@fi.upm.es ================================================ Session deadline: 15th January 2002 Session homepage: http://nova.ls.fi.upm.es/hpda/Sessions/session_webdm.html Conference homepage: http://www.gv.psu.edu/Conferences/RSCTC2002/default.asp Conference dates: October 14-16, 2002 Penn State Great Valley (near Philadelphia)