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Rough Sets and Data Mining - International Workshop

Rough Sets and Data Mining - International Workshop

In conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2007)

July 22nd, 2007, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Conference Introduction

The conference focuses on the use of conceptual structures in formalizing and processing semantic contents of ontologies, in particular in relation with the semantic web technologies. It addresses primarily the advances in conceptual structures, modelling, representation, and visualization of concepts, conceptual knowledge acquisition, and the theory and applications of formal ontologies.

Workshop Introduction

Since introduction of rough sets by Zdzislaw Pawlak in the early eighties, we have witnessed great advances in both their theory and applications. There is a growing research interest in foundations of rough sets, with some relationships to other methodologies already established. Rough sets are linked with decision support and intelligent systems, soft and granular computing, data mining and KDD, as well as pattern recognition and machine learning. A wide range of rough sets applications, alone or combined with other techniques, has been proposed in many fields including: business and finances; bioinformatics and medicine; environmental and social studies; multimedia mining and processing. Rough sets are also well-represented in the areas of compound concept approximation and hierarchical reasoning, which results in a nice match of the workshop with the main conference.

Workshop Objectives

The workshop will focus on the foundations and applications of rough sets. We encourage papers linking the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of rough sets with diverse areas, including:

• Knowledge Technology / Soft Computing
• Hybrid / Integrated Intelligent Systems
• Intelligent Agents / Multi-Agent Systems
• Relational Data Mining and KDD
• Distributed Data Mining Algorithms
• Others related to the areas of ICCS

In the same way, we encourage both purely rough-set-based and hybrid approaches to the following domains of applications, especially those connected to real-life data and databases:

• Biometrics and Health Informatics
• Security and Software Engineering
• Intelligent Image / Signal Analysis
• Multimedia / Text / Web Mining
• User Interaction / Personalization
• Others related to the areas of ICCS

The workshop will be combined with the tutorial introducing rough set theory and applications.

Publication

All the papers accepted to the workshop will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series.

Fees

• Workshops and Conference £350 (Pounds)
• Research Students £250 (Pounds)

The above fees include access to all workshops and the conference + two sets of the proceedings.

Deadlines

• Abstract submission: 15th March 2007. On-line using the conference website or directly to the workshop organizers via e-mail (see below).
• Full paper submission: 31st March 2007. 8 pages, in PDF format, following the Springer LNCS rules.
• Notification of acceptance: 15th April 2007.
• Camera ready copy: 25th April 2007. 8 pages, following the Springer LNCS rules, PDF and LaTeX files with all images and sources.
• Workshop: 22 July 2007.

Workshop Organizers

Dominik Slezak
Infobright Inc., Canada
slezak@infobright.com

Daryl Hepting
University of Regina, Canada
dhh@cs.uregina.ca

Kenneth Revett
University of Westminster, the UK
biomodelling@aol.com

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