Symposium on Foundations and Frontier of Data Minin(FFDM2012)
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~yxie2/FFDM2012/
Symposium on Cloud Computing and the Web (CW20102)
http://xanadu.cs.sjsu.edu/~grc/cw2012/
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Introduction

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.
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Topics of Interest
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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.
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Paper Submission
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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.
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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers:    April  24, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance:         May    20, 2012
Camera-ready of accepted papers:      June    10, 2012
Conference:                                       August  11-13