Transactions on Rough Sets XII

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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James F. Peters Andrzej Skowron Roman Słowi´nski Pawan Lingras Duoqian Miao Shusaku Tsumoto (Eds.)

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Editors-in-Chief James F. Peters University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Andrzej Skowron Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland E-mail: [email protected]

Guest Editors Roman Słowi´nski Pozna´n University of Technology, 60-965 Pozna´n, Poland E-mail: [email protected] Pawan Lingras Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, B3H 3C3, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Duoqian Miao Tongji University, 201804 Shanghai, P.R. China E-mail: [email protected] Shusaku Tsumoto Shimane University, Izumo 693-8501, Japan E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930335 CR Subject Classification (1998): F.4.1, F.1.1, H.2.8, I.5, I.4, I.2 ISSN ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 1861-2059 (Transaction on Rough Sets) 3-642-14466-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-14466-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

Volume XII of the Transactions on Rough Sets (TRS) includes articles that are part of a special issue on Rough Set Structuring of Knowledge. These articles are extended versions of papers accepted for presentation at the Rough Set and Knowledge Technology Conference (RSKT 2008) organized in Chengdu, China, in May 2008. In fact, this conference did not take pla