ROUGH SETS and CURRENT TRENDS in COMPUTING RSCTC'9B

Ist1st International Conference

June 22-26 Warsaw Poland

Professor Edward A. Feigenbaum 7 Stanford University

Stanford CA 94305 USA

Dear Professor Feigenbaum,

on behalf of the organizers, including Professors Pawlak and Skowron, I have the privilege to express our thanks for Your accepting our invitation to act as a Honoraryco-Chair of our Conference. Enclosed please find a copy of the First Call for Papers.

With our deepest regards,

Sincerely Yours,

Lech Polkowski Chair, Organizing Committee - *

Rough Set Theory, proposed first by Zdzislaw Pawlak in the early 80's, has recently 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 ofrough sets have shown their usefulness in many domains. It is felt useful to sum up the present state ofrough 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. Motivated by this, we plan to organize the Conference in Poland, where rough set theory was initiated and originally developed. An important aimof the Conference is to bring together eminent experts from diverse fields of expertise in order to facilitate mutual understanding and cooperation and to help in cooperative work aimed at new hybrid paradigms possibly better suited to various aspects of analysis ofreal life phenomena. We are pleased to announce that the following experts have agreedto serve in the Committees of our Conference. The lists may growdue to pending acceptance notifications; also somechanges in the conference site are possible.

Edward Feigenbaum (USA), Zdzislaw Pawlak (Poland), Carl Petri (Germany), Lotfi Zadeh(USA)

Marcin Drzewiecki (Poland), Jerzy Grzymala-Busse(USA), T.Y.Lin (USA), Krzysztof Malinowski (Poland), Toshinori Munakata (USA), Akira Nakamura (), Setsuo Ohsuga (Japan), Frederick Perry (USA), Zbigniew Ras (USA), Grzegorz Rozenberg (the Netherlands), Shizuo Shimada (Japan), Roman Slowinski (Poland), Hideo Tanaka (Japan), Boris A. Trakhtenbrot (Israel), Shusaku Tsumoto (Japan), Paul P. Wang (USA), Wojciech Ziarko (),Hans J. Zimmermann* (Germany)

Rakesh Agraval (USA), Bjom Angelsen* (Norway), Shun-ichi Amari (Japan), ThomasBaeck (Germany), Maria C. Fernandez Baizan (Spain), Jan Bielecki (Poland), Hans- Dieter Burkhardt (Germany), Gianpiero Cattaneo (Italy), Mihir Chakraborty (), Nick Cercone (Canada), Juan-Carlos Cubero (Spain), Ernest Czogala* (Poland), Andrzej Czyzewski (Poland), Jan Doroszewski (Poland), Didier Dubois* (France), Ivo Duentsch (Ireland), Michel Grabish* (France), Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland), Tadeusz Kaczorek (Poland), Willi Kloesgen (Germany), Jan Komorowski (Norway), JacekKoronacki (Poland), Wojciech Kowalczyk (the Netherlands), Marzena Kryszkiewicz (Poland), Pawan Lingras (Canada), Tadeusz Luba (Poland), Witold Lukaszewicz* (Poland), Solomon Marcus (), Victor Marek* (USA), Zbigniew Michalewicz (USA), Ryszard Michalski (USA), Mikhail Moshkov (Russia), Adam Mrozek* (Poland), Nguyen Hung Son (Poland), Miroslav Novotny* (Czech Republic), Ewa Orlowska (Poland), Kenji Oshima (Japan), Piero Pagliani (Italy), SankarK. Pal (India), Gheorghe Paun (Romania), Witold Pedrycz (Canada), James F.Peters 111 (Canada), Alberto Pettorossi (Italy), Zdzislaw Piasta (Poland), Lech Polkowski (Poland), Henri Prade (France), Vijay Raghavan (USA), Bernd Reusch* (Germany), Henryk Rybinski (Poland), Wladyslaw Skarbek (Poland), Andrzej Skowron (Poland), Krzysztof Slowinski* (Poland), Jerzy Stefanowski (Poland), Andrzej Szalas (Poland), Roman Swiniarski (USA), Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (Poland), Helmut Thiele* (Germany), Wieslaw Traczyk (Poland), Dimiter Vakarelov (Bulgaria), Anita Wasilewska (USA), Andrzej Wierzbicki (Poland), S. K. M. Wong (Canada), Satoshi Yamane(Japan), Yiyu Yao (Canada), Ning Zhong (Japan), JanZytkow (USA) [*: pending acceptance]

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rough set theory andapplications fuzzy set theory and applications knowledge discovery and data mining evolutionary algorithms neural networks machine learning molecular computing grammar systems computing with words andgranular computing complexity aspects ofsoft computing pattern recognition and imageprocessing applications ofsoft computing techniques in medicine, robotics, virtualreality multi -agent systems logical aspects ofsoft computing statistical inference We invite our colleagues interested in the above topics to submit original papers devoted to one or more ofthe above issues.

Papers should be processed in standard 10 pt Latex and be of length not exceeding 8 pages including tables, figures and references. Papers should be sent in electronic versions (Latex and postscript) to the address: [email protected] Simultaneously, 5 hard copies of the paper should be sent to the address: Andrzej Skowron, RSCTC, Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland. Papers sent should reach their destination before the deadline: February 15, 1998. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members ofthe Program Committee. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their papers by March 20, 1998. Accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings edited by L. Polkowski and A. Skowron and published by Springer (Physica Verlag). Deadline for sending camera - ready versions of papers will be announced later and layout - guides for their preparation will be sent to authors of accepted papers along with acceptance letters. Selected conference papers will be published in Fundamenta Informaticae.

Lech Polkowski (Chair, Organizing Committee) Andrzej Skowron(Chair, Program Committee) [email protected] [email protected]

e-mail address ofthe conference: [email protected] homepage: http://alfa.mimuw.edu.pl/~rsctc/ postal address: RSCTC, Andrzej Skowron Institute of Mathematics Warsaw University Banacha 2 02-097 Warsaw Poland Tele: +48 (22) 658 34 49 Fax: +48 (22) 658 34 48