Rough set theory, proposed by Zdzisław Pawlak in 1982, is a research field rich in theoretical studies and successful applications. It is attracting researchers worldwide, in various fields of theory and practice for many years. A series of rough set related international conferences (RSCTC, RSFDGrC, RSKD etc., held every year on three continents) show growing interest in this field.

Rough set theory was always tightly connected with KDD, machine learning and data mining. Rough set paradigm in KDD proved to be very useful and inspiring. A scope of proposed workshop is focused on data mining applications of rough set theory, and thus it would be interesting for ECML / PKDD attendants.

We encourage papers related to:

• rough set foundations, especially related to data mining applications;
• rough set methods in data mining and knowledge discovery;
• uncertain and approximate reasoning with rough sets;
• hybrid solutions;
• case studies of rough set based data analysis;
• presentation of software systems implementing rough set techniques.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: May 18th, 2007
• Paper submission deadline: June 30th, 2007
• Paper acceptance notification: July 21st, 2007
• Paper camera-ready deadline: July 28th, 2007
• Start of the conference: September 17th, 2007
• Start of RSKD Workshop: September 21st, 2007

The papers should be prepared in Latex and must be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The maximum length of papers is at most 12 pages in this format.

Contributions should be submitted to: rskd2007 (a t) qed.pl

Piotr Synak, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
synak (a t) pjwstk.edu.pl

Jakub Wróblewski, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
jakubw (a t) pjwstk.edu.pl

Program Committee

Aijun An, York University, Canada
Jan Bazan, University of Rzeszów, Poland
Shoji Hirano, Shimane University, Japan
Jan Komorowski, The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Sweden
Lech Polkowski, Polish-Japanese Inst. of Information Technology, Poland
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Hui Wang, University of Ulster, U.K.

Publication of Materials

Workshop proceedings will be published in electronic form (all on one CD). It will be also possible to purchase printed workshop proceedings (a separate volume for each workshop). Printed workshop proceedings have to be ordered with the conference registration form at the time of the conference registration.

Extended versions of selected papers are planned to be published in special issue of LNCS Journal Subline: Transactions on Rough Sets.

All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference.