===================================================================== /------------------------------------------------\ < Electronic Bulletin of the Rough Set Community > \------------------------------------------------/ EBRSC Volume 1, Number 1 November 8, 1993 roughset@cs.uregina.ca [ Editor: M. Hadjimichael ] [ Asst Editor: R. Golan ] [(University of Regina, Sask)] ===================================================================== Contents: [v1n1/931108] 1. Welcome 2. Goals of the Bulletin 3. Content and Format 4. "Editors" 5. Archives 6. Subscriptions ===================================================================== 1. Welcome Welcome to the first, introductory, issue of the Electronic Bulletin of the Rough Set Community. The Bulletin is a result of a general consensus at the International Workshop on Rough Sets and Knowledge Discovery, 1993, in Banff, Alberta. It was agreed that a rapid and inexpensive means of communication of research results was necessary, and that an electronic network would best serve our needs. In this first issue, we will describe briefly the goals of the Bulletin, and some administrative details. [mh] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Goals of the Bulletin In its first phase, we see the Bulletin primarily as a means of rapidly communicating abstracts of papers in the Rough Sets field of study. These should be abstracts of (1) papers not yet in print, (2) recently published papers, or (3) papers published in difficult-to-obtain journals, and thus inaccessible to the greater scientific community. Additionally, the Bulletin may serve as a means for researchers to present abstracts of work in progress, as a way of initiating further communication in private with other interested individuals. Finally, the Bulletin may be used to communicate announcements of interest to our community, such as conference announcements, calls for papers, etc. The Bulletin will also host an archive, containing back issues of the Bulletin, as well as data and software contributed by the Community. In the future, the Bulletin may be expanded as a discussion list and/or mail server, and perhaps, one day, into a hardcopy version... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Content and Format Submissions to the Bulletin will be made electronically by sending email to the Internet address: roughset@cs.uregina.ca Comments and questions may also be sent to this address. Relevant submissions should concern research involving: 1) the fundamentals of Rough Sets; 2) applications of Rough Sets to other theoretical studies (e.g. Machine Learning, Uncertainty Management, Knowledge Discovery, Image Analysis, etc.); 3) applications of Rough Sets in systems; 4) related research in Uncertainty management. Other relevant submissions would include: 1) conference announcements and Call For Papers; 2) announcements about availability on the archive of data/systems/results. ** If an announcement is particularly urgent, please indicate so in the message, and I will endeavor to distribute it as quickly as possible. The Bulletin will be mailed out approximately once a month - depending on the quantity of submissions. It will be a compilation of abstracts and letters as submitted by the contributor. No editing or reviewing will be done beyond checking appropriateness of content (leniently), simple text formatting, and spell-checking. The Bulletin will be sent out as a simple ASCII text file - no processing or compilation will be required to read it. In the future, perhaps we may consider also generating a Postscript version in a prettier format. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Editors At RSKD'93, Robert Golan and I (Michael Hadjimichael) offered our services as editors of the Bulletin. We may be contacted at the Bulletin email address (roughset@cs.uregina.ca), or at our respective personal addresses (mike@cs.uregina.ca and golan@cs.uregina.ca). We are both currently located at: Department of Computer Science University of Regina Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Archives Back issues of the Bulletin, along with data and software contributions, will be archived at the University of Regina. They may be retrieved via FTP from: cs.uregina.ca (142.3.200.53) in the directory pub/ebrsc. For example, a sample session would begin at your prompt (%): ................................................................. % ftp cs.uregina.ca Connected to cs.uregina.ca. 220 mercury.cs.uregina.ca FTP server ready. Name (cs.uregina.ca:mike): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, type your name as password. Password: /*password will not appear */ 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd /pub/ebrsc 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. total 11 -rw-r--r-- 1 10065 grads 5535 Nov 4 16:03 ebrsc-v1n1.txt 226 Transfer complete. ftp> get ebrsc-v1n1.txt local: ebrsc-v1n1.txt remote: ebrsc-v1n1.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'ebrsc-v1n1.txt' (5535 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 5535 bytes received in 0.03 seconds (180.18 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. % ............................................................... Simple, isn't it? Those without FTP access may send requests to roughset@cs.uregina.ca, but please remember that we will satisfy requests as our workload permits. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Subscriptions If you have received this issue of the Bulletin via email, then you are already subscribed. 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