===================================================================== /------------------------------------------------\ < Electronic Bulletin of the Rough Set Community > \------------------------------------------------/ EBRSC Volume 3, Number 5 November 9, 1995 [ Editor: M. Hadjimichael, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey ] [ Asst Editor: R. Golan, Rough Knowledge Discovery Inc., Calgary ] [ Sponsor: University of Regina, Sask ] email: roughset@cs.uregina.ca ftp: ftp.cs.uregina.ca:/pub/ebrsc gopher: gopher.cs.uregina.ca WWW: gopher://gopher.cs.uregina.ca:70/11/ebrsc [ Copyright (c) 1995, EBRSC ] [ ISSN 1195-9665 ] ===================================================================== Contents: [v3n5/951109] 1. CACM Rough Sets article 2. CFP: Computational Engineering In Systems Applications 3. CFP: Information Processing And Management Of Uncertainty In Knowledge Based Systems. 4. CFP: Computational Intelligence For Financial Engineering ===================================================================== [1] Communications of the ACM: We would like to call to your attention to an article in the November 1995 issue of Communications of the ACM: New Horizons in Commercial and Industrial AI. The article is: "Rough Sets", by Zdzislaw Pawlak, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Roman Slowinski, and Wojciech Ziarko. This article is a well-written and concise description of the basic concepts of Rough Set theory, and a summary of applications in knowledge acquisition and machine learning, decision analysis, and knowledge discovery. The complete reference is: @Article{pgsz95, author = {Pawlak, Z. and Grzymala-Busse, J. and Slowinski, R. and Ziarko, W.}, title = {Rough Sets}, journal = {Communications of the ACM}, year = 1995, volume = 38, number = 11, month = {November}, pages = {89--95} } ____________________________________________________________________ [2] CALL FOR PAPERS *************** CESA'96 COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING IN SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS (Sponsored by IMACS and IEEE-SMC) July 9-12, 1996 Lille, France INVITED SESSION ON DATA MINING AND ROUGH SETS Session Organizers: Anita Wasilewska Department of Computer Science State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794-4400, USA tel. (516) 632 8458 fax. (516) 632 8334 Internet: anita@cs.sunysb.edu Wojciech Ziarko Department of Computer Science University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada tel. (306) 585 5213 fax. (306) 585 4745 Internet: ziarko@cs.uregina.ca Please, submit approximately one page abstract of your presentation by January 15, 1996 to Anita Wasilewska at the above address. Electronic submission is recommended. Final, camera-ready papers will be due May 1, 1996. The papers will be reviewed prior to inclusion in the Conference Proceedings. About the Subject of the Session: Database mining is considered to be one of the most promising directions spanning database and AI research. The primary objective of database mining methodologies and systems is to help the user in discovering potentially significant facts or data patterns. Although statistical methods offer some help in that respect, their applicability is limited by often strong assumptions and general lack of techniques to analyze and characterize the structural relationships existing in data. Consequently, much of database mining, or knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) research is rooted in former machine learning research. However, the goals of machine learning are different from database mining and, therefore, simple adaptation of learning algorithms to deal with database mining questions solves a small part of the whole problem. What is needed is a comprehensive, well founded and consistent approach aimed at dealing with a number of KDD-related problems. Typical problems are the analysis of data dependencies, identification of fundamental factors affecting such dependencies, discovery of predictive rules etc. It seems that methodology of rough sets and its extensions offer such a theoretical framework to systematically study such KDD problems and related algorithms. The main subject of this session will be presentation of the most recent research and applications of rough set-based approach to database mining. We also look for contributions covering related topics. These include neural nets approach and possibly other approaches to discovery of patterns in data, acquisition of control algorithms from data by using data mining techniques, data preprocessing techniques and techniques for approximate representation and reasoning with discovered knowledge. Summary of Conference Deadlines: January 15, 1996 Submission of draft papers or extended abstracts March 1, 1996 Notification of acceptance May 1, 1996 Submission of camera ready papers *************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- [2] IPMU'96: Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge Based Systems. URL: http://pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html ***************************************************** * IPMU'96 * * * * Information Processing and Management of * * Uncertainty * * in Knowledge Based Systems * * * * Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996 * * * * URL: http://pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html * ***************************************************** Dear Colleague, Due to the increasing number of petitions we are receiving these days, the IPMU'96 Organization Committee has decided to postpone the deadlines for submitting. Enclosed you can find the new deadlines, as well as other useful information. ----------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------- Prof. T. Terano (Japan). Kampe de Feriet Award Prof. A. F. Rocha (Brazil) Prof. H.J. Zimmermann (Germany) Prof. P. Bonissone (U.S.A.) Prof. R. Scozzafava (Italy) ----------------------------------------------------------- !!!! NEW DEADLINES !!!! ----------------------------------------------------------- December. 1 1995: Deadline for submission of papers. March. 1 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection. April. 1 1996: Reception of final camera-ready. May 15 1996: Deadline for early registration. July 1-5 1996: CONFERENCE. ----------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------- There will be a six page (two columns, 10 pt) limit on the final versions of accepted papers. Papers will be carefully reviewed and authors will be notified on the acceptance/rejection by March 1st, 1996. Final camera-ready copies for publication will be required by April 1st, 1996. Authors can submit through two alternative ways: - Sending three copies of each full paper, by surface mail to: IPMU'96 Dpto. Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. E.T.S.I. Informatica. Avda. Andalucia, 38 Universidad de Granada. 18071 Granada. 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Spain ----------------------------------------------------------- OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------- The frequency of International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems will be increased from the current 4 issues per year to 6 issues, starting from 1996. In recognition of the association between the IPMU community and the journal, the editors of World Scientific Publishing are pleased to inform all the members of the IPMU community, that there is a special subscription rate of US$60 per year for the journal. This special rate remains the same as previous years, despite the increase in frequency. So then, subscribe the journal today! All you need to do is to write/fax in to: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 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Our homepage will be updated on October 15 to reflect these new deadlines. -- Payman Arabshahi Electronic Publicity Chair, CIFEr'96 Tel : (205) 895-6380 Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng. Fax : (205) 895-6803 University of Alabama in Huntsville payman@ebs330.eb.uah.edu Huntsville, AL 35899 http://www.eb.uah.edu/ece/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE/IAFE 1996 $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$ Call for Papers Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering CIFEr Conference March 24-26, 1996, New York City, Crowne Plaza Manhattan Sponsors: The IEEE Neural Networks Council, The International Association of Financial Engineers The IEEE/IAFE CIFEr Conference is the second annual collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection = of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. Topics in which papers, panel sessions, and tutorial = proposals are invited include, but are not limited to, the following: CONFERENCE TOPICS ----------------- > Financial Engineering Applications: Trading Systems Forecasting Hedging Strategies Risk Management Pricing of Structured Securities Systemic Risk Asset Allocation Exotic Options > Computer & Engineering Applications & Models: Neural Networks Probabilistic Reasoning Fuzzy Systems and Rough Sets Stochastic Processes Dynamic Optimization Time Series Analysis Non-linear Dynamics Evolutionary Computation INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS, PANEL PROPOSALS, SPECIAL SESSIONS, TUTORIALS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All summaries and proposals for tutorials, panels and special sessions = must be received by the conference Secretariat at Meeting Management by = December 1, 1995. Our intentions are to publish a book with the best selection of papers accepted. AUTHORS (FOR CONFERENCE ORAL SESSIONS) -------------------------------------- One copy of the Extended Summary (not exceeding four pages of 8.5 inch by 11 inch size) must be received by Meeting Management by December 1, 1995. Centered at the top of the first page should be the paper's complete = title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and mailing addresses(es). Fonts no smaller than 10 pt should be used. Papers must report original work that has not been published previously, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. In the letter accompanying the submission, the following information should be included: * Topic(s) * Full title of paper * Corresponding Author's name * Mailing address * Telephone and fax * E-mail (if available) * Presenter (If different from corresponding author, please provide name, mailing address, etc.) Authors will be notified of acceptance of the Extended Summary by January 10, 1996. Complete papers (up to a maximum of seven 8.5 inch by 11 inch pages) will be due by February 9, 1996, and will be published in the conference proceedings. SPECIAL SESSIONS ---------------- A limited number of special sessions will address subjects within the topical scope of the conference. Each special session will consist of = from four to six papers on a specific topic. Proposals for special sessions will be submitted by the session organizer and should include: * Topic(s) * Title of Special Session * Name, address, phone, fax, and email of the Session Organizer * List of paper titles with authors' names and addresses * One page of summaries of all papers Notification of acceptance of special session proposals will be on January 10, 1995. If a proposal for a special session is accepted, the authors will be required to submit a camera ready copy of their paper for the conference proceedings by February 9, 1996. PANEL PROPOSALS --------------- Proposals for panels addressing topics within the technical scope of the conference will be considered. Panel organizers should describe, in two pages or less, the objective of the panel and the topic(s) to be = addressed. Panel sessions should be interactive with panel members and the audience and should not be a sequence of paper presentations by the panel members. The participants in the panel should be identified. No papers will be published from panel activities. Notification of acceptance of panel session proposals will be on January 10, 1996. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ------------------ Proposals for tutorials addressing subjects within the topical scope of = the conference will be considered. Proposals for tutorials should describe, = in two pages or less, the objective of the panel and the topic(s) to be addressed. A detailed syllabus of the course contents should also be included. Most tutorials will be four hours, although proposals for = longer tutorials will also be considered. Notification of acceptance of tutorial proposals will be on January 10, 1996. EXHIBIT INFORMATION ------------------- Businesses with activities related to financial engineering, including software & hardware vendors, publishers and academic institutions, are invited to participate in CIFEr's exhibits. Further information about the exhibits can be obtained from the CIFEr-secretariat, Barbara Klemm. SPONSORS -------- Sponsorship for the CIFEr Conference is being provided by the IAFE (International Association of Financial Engineers) and the IEEE Neural Networks Council. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is the world's largest engineering and computer science professional non-profit association and sponsors hundreds of technical conferences and publications annually. The IAFE is a professional non-profit financial association with members worldwide specializing in = new financial product design, derivative structures, risk management strategies, arbitrage techniques, and application of computational techniques to finance. Early registration is $400 for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and = Electronic Engineers, Neural Networks Council) and IAFE (International Association of Financial Engineers) members. For details contact Barbara Klemm at = Meeting Management. INFORMATION ----------- CIFEr Secretariat: Meeting Management IEEE/IAFE Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering 2603 Main Street, Suite #690 Irvine, California 92714 Tel: (714) 752-8205 or (800) 321-6338 Fax: (714) 752-7444 Email: 74710.2266@compuserve.com Visit us on the World Wide Web for latest updates: http://www.ieee.org/nnc/conferences/cfp/cifer96.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Keynote Speaker: Stephen Figlewski, Professor of Finance and Editor of the Journal of Derivatives Stern School of Business, New York University John M. Mulvey, Professor and Director Engineering Management Systems Princeton University, Princeton Conference Committee General Co-chairs: John Marshall, Professor of Financial Engineering Polytechnic University, New York, NY Robert Marks, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Program Committee Co-chairs: Benjamin Melamed, Ph.D., Research Scientist RUTCOR-Rutgers University's Center for Operations Research Alan Tucker, Associate Professor of Finance Pace University, New York, NY International Liaison: Arnold Jang, Vice President, Intelligent Trading Systems Springfields Investments Advisory Company, Taipei, Taiwan Organizational Chair: Robert Golan, President Rough Knowledge Discovery Inc., Calgary, Alberta Finance Chair: Ingrid Marshall, Accountant Marshall & Marshall, Stroudsburg, PA Exhibits Chair: Steve Piche, Lead Scientist Pavillion Inc, Austin Program Co-Chair: Alan Tucker and Benjamin Melamed Program Committee: Phelim Boyle, Professor of Accounting University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Mark Broadie, Associate Professor of Finance Graduate School of Business Columbia University, New York, NY Jan Dash, Ph.D, Managing Director Smith Barney, New York, NY Stephen Figlewski, Professor of Finance New York University, New York, NY Roy S. Freedman, Ph.D, President Inductive Solutions, Inc, New York, NY Peter L. Hammer, Professor and Director RUTCOR-Rutgers University's Center for Operations Research, New Brunswick, NJ Jimmy E. Hilliard, Professor of Finance University of Georgia, Athens, GA John Hull, Professor of Management University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Yuval Lirov, Ph.D., Vice President Lehman Brothers, Inc, New York, NY David G. Luenberger, Professor of Electrical Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, CA John M. Mulvey, Professor and Director Engineering Management Systems Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Jason Z. Wei, Associate Professor of Finance University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Robert E. Whaley, Professor of Business Futures and Options Research Center Duke University, Durham, NC Publicity Chair Michael Wolf, General Manager Financial Products, The Mathworks, Inc., Natick, MA Electronic Publicity Chair Payman Arabshahi, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville Conference Liaison Scott Mathews, Senior Associate Marshall, Tucker, and Associates, Edmonds, WA ====================================================================== This Electronic document is Copyright (c) 1995, The Electronic Bulletin of the Rough Set Community (EBRSC). Copyrights to the individual abstracts belong to their respective authors. ====================================================================== /------------------------------------------------\ < Electronic Bulletin of the Rough Set Community > \------------------------------------------------/ email: roughset@cs.uregina.ca ftp: ftp.cs.uregina.ca:/pub/ebrsc gopher: gopher.cs.uregina.ca ======================================================================