Call for Papers
The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
Aug 11-13 Hangzhou, Zhejiang University

Granular Computing (GrC) is an emerging computational and mathematical theories that involve the concept of granules. A granule can be a sub-Turing machine, a piece of elementary knowledge, or a region of uncertainty. Though the label is relatively recent, the basic notions and principles, though under different names, have appeared in many related fields, such as neighborhood systems and infinitesimals in the foundation of granular computing, divide and conquer in theoretical computer science, information hiding in software engineering, interval computing, fuzzy and rough set theories probability/possibility/belief measures in uncertainty mathematics, granularity in artificial intelligence, neutrosophic computing, quotient space theory, machine learning, databases, and many others.

IEEE GrC 2012 will continue to address the issues related to Granular Computing and its applications. IEEE GrC 2012 will provide researchers from universities, laboratories and industry to present state-of-the-art research results and methodologies in theory and applications of granular computing. The conference will also make it possible for researchers and developers to highlight their new research directions and new interactions with novel computing models. To broaden more impact on granular computing and its applications, IEEE GrC 2012 will focus on currently important major research tracks such as soft computing (fuzzy, rough sets and etc), social network, cloud computing, e-intelligence (web intelligence, semantic web), bioinformatics and medical informatics.

Topics of Interest
Computational Intelligence       
• Granular Computing
• Fuzzy Systems
• Neural networks
• Evolutionary Computation
• Rough Sets
•Neutrosophic Systems
•Formal Concept Analysis
• etc.
Foundation of Data Mining and Learning Theory
• Probabilistic / Stochastic Learning
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Feature Selection
• Knowledge Representation
• Kernel Machines
• Web Intelligence
• etc.
Social Network Analysis and Mining
• Communities Discovery and Analysis in Social Networks
• Contextual Social Network Analysis
• Data Protection inside Communities
• Dynamics and Evolution Patterns of• Social Networks
• Impact of Social Networks on Recommendations Systems
• Knowledge Networks
• Multi-agent based Social Network Modeling and Analysis
• etc.
Granular Computing Applications
• Agents
• Cloud Computing
• Databases
• Bioinformatics
• Knowledge-based Systems
• Information Integration
• Multi-media Applications
• Medical Informatics and Chemical Informatics
• E-Learning
• Semantic Web
• Robotics and Control
• etc.

Paper Submission
All paper submissions will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site http://grc2012.zju.edu.cn. All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Press.

Important Dates
Workshop proposal submission: March 1, 2012
Electronic submission of full papers: March 24, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: April 20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers: May 10, 2012
Conference: August 11-13

Organization
Honorary Chairs
Lotfi A. Zadeh University of California, Berkeley, USA
Bo Zhang Tsinghua  University, China
T.Y. Lin   GrC Society, USA

Conference General Chairs
Zhaohui Wu   Zhejiang University,  China
Ronald Yager Iona College, USA
Sankar Pal  Indian Statistical Institute, India
 
Program Chairs
Qing Liu Nanchang University, China
Weidong Chen  Zhejiang University, China
Pawan Lingras Saint Mary University, Canada
Dominik lzak   University of Warsaw & Infobright Inc., Poland
Guilong Liu Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Shuliang Wang  Wuhan University, China
 
Steering Committee
T. Y. Lin (Chair)   GrC Society, USA
Tony Xiaohua Hu (Co-Chair)  Drexel University, USA
Ronald Yager(Co-Chair) Iona College, USA
Bo Zhang (Co-Chair)   Tsinghua University, China
J. Y. Liang (Co-Chair)   Shanxi University, China
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse University of Kansas, USA
Jerry Mendel University of Southern California, USA
Sadaki Miyamoto University of Tsukuba, Japan
Sankar Pal  Indian Statistical Institute, India
Roman Slowinski President of International Rough Set Society, Poland
William Zhu Zhangzhou Normal University, China