• Submission of Papers

Papers for the special session should describe original and unpublished work on MCS. Full papers may be up to seven pages in IEEE format and should be sent by email to the session organizers. Accepted papers will appear in the INFOS'2007 conference proceedings.  All papers will be peer reviewed by two independent reviewers.

• Authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper as a chapter for a book on Multimedia Transcoding in Mobile and Wireless Networks, 2008

Related links:

• Workshop on Soft Computing in  Intelligent  Multimedia Seoul Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea

• Soft Computing  in Medical Image Processing - Special session as a part JRS07

• Computational Intelligence in Medical Imagining: Techniques & Applications, to be published by CRC Press, 2008

• The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'2007), October 22-24, Brazil

• Soft Computing in Multimedia Processing, Special issue , Informatics Journal, 2005, [ Download]
   

  Cairo, Egypt

  Cairo, Egypt, the Triumphant City, known officially as al-Qāhirah  is one of the world's largest urban areas and offers many sites to see. It is the administrative capital of Egypt and, close by, is almost every Egypt Pyramid, such as the Great Pyramids of Giza on the very edge of the city. But there are also ancient temples, tombs, Christian churches, magnificent Muslim monuments, and of course, the Egyptian Antiquities Museum all either within or nearby the city.

  Cairo, Egypt is an amazing city full of life and movement, and it is that way almost 24 hours every day, with the noisy honking of horns, children playing in the streets and merchants selling their wears and services. And here, the Egyptians are most at home in this powerful, modern and ancient city
  
  Cairo, Egypt provides great culture, including art galleries and music halls, such as the Cairo Opera House, as well it should, being one of the largest cities in the world. It also provides some of the grandest accommodations and restaurants in the world, such as the Four Seasons and the Cairo Marriott.
  
  Cairo offers an incredible selection of shopping, leisure and nightlife activities. Shopping ranges from the famous Khan el-Khalili souk, (or bazaar) largely unchanged since the 14th century, to modern air-conditioned centers displaying the latest fashions. All the bounty of the East can be here. Particularly good buys are spices, perfumes, gold, silver, carpets, brass and copperware, leatherwork, glass, ceramics and mashrabiya. Try some of the famous street markets, like Wekala al-Balaq, for fabrics, including Egyptian cotton, the Tentmakers Bazaar for appliqué-work, Mohammed Ali Street for musical instruments and, although you probably won't want to buy, the Camel Market makes a fascinating trip. This is, and has been for over a thousand years, truly a shopper's paradise.

  Keynote Speaker

  Rough Sets in Data Mining and Information Retrieval
  
  Professor Dominik Slezak,

  Infobright Inc., Canada
  
  Abstract:

  Theory of rough sets, proposed by Zdzislaw Pawlak in 1982, is a model of approximate reasoning. In applications, rough set methodology focuses on approximate representation of knowledge derivable from data. It leads to significant results in many areas including, for example, finance, industry, multimedia, medicine, and most recently bioinformatics.
  
  One of the key notions of rough sets is a reduct, an optimal subset of attributes providing enough information about pre-defined target concepts or whole data sources. Proposed originally within the framework of rough set approximations, it was extended regarding different application needs, using concepts of, for example, Boolean reasoning, Bayesian reasoning, and information theory. There have been developed efficient tools extracting educts from data, based, for instance, on greedy heuristics and evolutionary algorithms.
  
  In this talk, we present foundations of rough sets, as well as current trends in rough-set-based attribute reduction, understood as the means for representation of multi-attribute approximate dependencies in real-world data. We pay a special attention to case studies of rough set applications to bio-medical problems, including MRI segmentation, gene expression data analysis, as well as the cancer therapy survival analysis. DBLP: Dominik Slezak

  
   

  About the Keynote Speaker

  

  Dominik Slezak received his PhD in Computer Science in 2002 from Warsaw University, Poland. In an instructional capacity he has supervised more than 15 graduate students in Canada, Poland, and the United Kingdom. He has pursued academic collaborations with Warsaw University, University of Regina, and the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology.
  
  Additionally, he serves as an executive member of the International Rough Set Society, editor-in-chief of Online International Journal on Rough Set Methods, guest editor and reviewer for a number of international scientific journals, chair of several international scientific conferences, and is a member of several IEEE technical committees. He has published over 60 research articles for books, journals, and conference proceedings.

   

Workshop Program

25 March 2007

 Session-B: Computational Intelligence & Applications

Session chair:  Professor  Jason S.H. Tsai

Session co-chair:  Dr. Mohamed Mostafa Abd Allah