<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">IEEE GrC 2014 Call for
Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The 2014 IEEE
International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE Grc2014),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">October 22-24, 2014,
Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://ieee-grc2014.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Granular computing (GrC)
is an emerging computation theory for effectively using granules such<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">as classes, clusters,
subsets, groups and intervals to build an efficient computational model<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">for complex applications
with huge amounts of data, information and knowledge. It concerns the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">processing of complex
information entities called information granules, which are collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">of entities that usually
originate at the numeric level and are arranged together due to their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">similarity, functional
or physical adjacency, coherency, or the like. Granular computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">offers a landmark change
from the current machine-centric to human-centric approach to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">information and
knowledge. The theoretical foundations of granular computing are exceptionally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">sound and involve set
theory (interval mathematics), fuzzy sets, rough sets, and random sets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">linked together in a
highly comprehensive treatment of this emerging paradigm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The 2014 IEEE
International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE Grc2014) will continue to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">address the issues
related to Granular Computing and its applications. It will provide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">researchers from
universities, laboratories and industry to present state-of-the-art research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">results and methodologies
in theory and applications of granular computing. The conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">will also make it
possible for researchers and developers to highlight their new research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">directions and new
interactions with novel computing models. To broaden more impact on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">granular computing and
its applications, IEEE GrC 2014 will focus on currently important major<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">research tracks such as
software engineering, information security, cloud computing, data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">intelligence , and
bioinformatics. We solicit high-quality original research papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">(including significant
work-in-progress) in any aspect of Granular Computing. Topics
include<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. Computational
Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Data
Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Web
Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Fuzzy
Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Neural
networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Evolutionary
Computation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Rough
Sets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Neutrosophic
Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Granular Computing
Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Cloud
Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Databases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Bioinformatics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Knowledge-based
Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Information
Integration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Multi-media
Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Medical
Informatics and Chemical Informatics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Robotics
and Control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. Information Security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Security
Protocols<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Data
Encryption<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Digital
Signature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Cyber
Attack and Resistance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. Software Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Software
Data Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Formal
Verification<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Software
Testing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* System
and Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Semantic
Web<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. Big Data Use and
Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Probabilistic
/ Stochastic Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Feature
Selection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Knowledge
Representation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Social
Network Analysis and Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Social
Web Search and Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Web
Search<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Algorithms
and Systems for Big Data Search<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Distributed,
and Peer-to-peer Search<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Big
Data Search Scalability and Efficiency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Data
Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Visualization
Analytics for Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Computational
Modeling and Data Integration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Large-scale
Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Stream
Data Mining- Big Velocity Data <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Semantic-based
Data Mining and Data Pre-processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Mobility
and Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. Images and Graphics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Images
partition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Feature
extraction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Image
fusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Link
and Graph Mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* Multimedia
and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paper Submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">All paper submissions
will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">conference web site
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/GrC14/cbc_index.php . All papers
will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">be peer reviewed and
accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Press. All accepted papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">are indexed by EI and
ISTP. A selected number of the accepted papers will be invited to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">further expanded and
revised for possible inclusion in the special issue of International<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Journal for Data Mining
and Bioinformatics (SCIE).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">*Full Paper submission
due: July 20 , 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">*Notification of
acceptance/rejection: August 20, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">*Camera-ready copy of
accepted papers due: Sept 15, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">*Grc2014 Conference: Oct
22-24, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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