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GrC 2009 Call for Papers

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2009 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing

Lushan Mountian/Nanchang, China, Aug 17-19, 2009

http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/ieeegrc/grc09

Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society

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General Co-Chairs

Guoping Mei

Vice-President, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China

T.Y. Lin	President of the International Society of Granular Computing, USA
Bo Zhang	Tsinghua University, China

Program Chairs

Tzung-Pei Hong	National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C
Zhongzhi Shi	Institute of Computiing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science
Shusaku Tsumoto	Shiame University, Japan

Organizing Chairs

Jiali Xia	Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China
Jianchao Han	California State Univeristy, USA
Aihua Yin	Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China

Honorary Chairs

Lotfi A. Zadeh	"EE-Nobel" Laureate, UC Berkeley, USA
Stephen Smale	""MATH-Nobel" Laureate, UC Berkeley, TTI at Chicago, USA
Setsuo Ohsuga	"Initiator of Japanese Fifth Generation Computing, University of Tokyo, Japan

Program Committee Vice Chairs

Guilong Liu	Beijing Language and Culture University
Xiaofeng Wang	Shanghai Maritime University, China
Shuliang Wang	Wuhan University, China
Miyamoto Sadaaki	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Tianrui Li	Southwest Jiaotong University , China
Jun Hu	Nanchang University, China
Justin Zhan	Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Financial Chair

T.Y. Lin

San Jose State University, USA

Local Arrangements Chair

Sixue Bai

Nanchang University, China

Chi Zhang

Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China

Proceedings Co-chairs

Xiajiong Shen

Henan University, China

Publication Chairs

Xiajiong Shen

Henan University, China

Publicity Co-chairs

Jiali Feng	Shanghai Maritime University
TingTing He	China centra Nomral University, China

Registration Co-Chairs

Chi Zhang	Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China
Xiaodan Zhang	Drexel University, USA

# (Papers Due: May 5 , 2009)

# Indexed by EI (GrC 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 were indexed by EI).

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Granular Computing (GrC) is a general computation theory for effectively

using granules such as classes, clusters, subsets, groups and intervals to

build an efficient computational model for complex applications with

huge amounts of data, information and knowledge. Though the label

is relatively recent, the basic notions and principles of granular computing,

though under different names, have appeared in many related fields,

such as information hiding in programing, granularity in artificial intelligence,

divide and conquer in theoretical computer science, interval computing,

cluster analysis, fuzzy and rough set theories, neutrosophic computing,

quotient space theory, belief functions, machine learning, databases, and many others.

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Topics of Interest

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The topics and areas include, but are not limited to:

Computational Intelligence

(Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computation, Rough Sets, etc.)

Foundation of Data Mining and Learning Theory

(Probabilistic/Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, Kernel Machines, etc.)

Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and Chemical Informatics

e-Intelligence, Web Intelligence, Web Informatics,Web Mining and Semantic Web

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Important Dates

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Electronic submission of full papers: May 5, 2009

Notification of paper acceptance: June 20 , 2009

Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: July 10, 2009

Conference: Aug 17-19, 2009

Online submission: http://kis-lab.com/cyberchair/GrC09/cbc_index.html

Paper length: 6 pages in IEEE 2-column format