Granular Computing Session
Recent years saw a rapid growth of interest in so-called granular computing.
In a nutshell, granular computing is concerned with representing and processing
various information abstractions - information granules. These are collections of entities,
usually originating at the numeric level, that are arranged together due to their similarity,
functional adjacency, indistinguishability or alike. There are several essential and common
factors that underpin all pursuits of information granulation. These are:
- modularisation of
the problem domain to manage system complexity and reduce computational effort;
- abstraction of the essential features to enable ‘high-level’ resoning about physical systems;
- processing of interval-valued parameters, and
- coping with non-uniqueness of various inverse problems.
Contributions relating but not limited to the above are invited for this session.
Paper format:
The draft papers should be written in English, not exceeding 6 pages on A4 or
letter-size paper using Times or a similar font of size 10 or larger. The first page
of each paper must include the title, name(s), affiliation(s) of the author(s),
email address(es), abstract and a maximum of 5 keywords for indexing purposes.
An IEEE paper format is preferred. This can be found at
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.htm.
Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be accepted. The file size should
not exceed 1.5Mb.
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: June 30, 2002
- Acceptance notification: July 31, 2002
- Camera ready due: August 31, 2002
Session Organiser:
Professor Andrzej Bargiela
Department of Computing and Mathematics
The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK
e-mail: andre@doc.ntu.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)115 848 6016
fax: +44 (0)115 848 6518
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Last update: 20 March 2002.