Call for Papers

2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
GSU, Atlanta, USA, May 10-12, 2006
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~grc/
Sponsored by The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Dec. 30, 2005
Acceptance Notification: Jan. 21, 2006
Camera-Ready: Feb. 4, 2006

Keynote speakers (in an alphabetical order):
Dr. T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
Dr. Stephen Smale (tentative), UC Berkeley, TTI at Chicago, USA
Dr. Vladimir Vapnik, Columbia University, USA
Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA

Major research tracks include:
-   Computational Intelligence (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems,
Evolutionary Computation, Rough Sets, etc.)
-   Foundation of Data Mining and Learning (Probabilistic/Statistical
Learning, Machine Learning, Kernel Machines, etc .)

Relevant application tracks include, but are not limited to:
-   Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and Chemical Informatics
-   e-Intelligence, Web Intelligence, Computational Web Intelligence,
Web Informatics, Web Mining and Semantic Web
-   High-performance Computing, Grid Computing, Wireless Computing,
Mobile Computing and Sensor Networks
-   Security

General Co-Chairs:
T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

Honorary Chairs:
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
Zdzislaw Pawlak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Stephen Smale, UC Berkeley, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,
USA
Lotfi A. Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Yan-Qing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett Packard, USA

Program Committee Vice-Chairs:
Gary B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA
Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan
Thomas Whalen, Georgia State University, USA
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Gary Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
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Thank you very much!

Best Regards,

T.Y. Lin and Yan-Qing Zhang
on behalf of IEEE-GrC 2006