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        <article-title>Rough Sets in Interactive Granular Computing</article-title>
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          <string-name>Andrzej Skowron</string-name>
          <email>skowron@mimuw.edu.pl</email>
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          <institution>Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Poland Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw</institution>
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      <p>Decision support in solving problems related to complex systems requires relevant
computation models for the agents as well as methods for incorporating reasoning over
computations performed by agents. Agents are performing computations on complex
objects (e.g., (behavioral) patterns, classifiers, clusters, structural objects, sets of rules,
aggregation operations, (approximate) reasoning schemes etc.). In Granular Computing
(GC), all such constructed and/or induced objects are called granules. To model, crucial
for the complex systems, interactive computations performed by agents, we extend the
existing GC approach to Interactive Granular Computing (IGC) by introducing complex
granules (c-granules or granules, for short). Many advanced tasks, concerning complex
systems may be classified as control tasks performed by agents aiming at achieving
the high quality computational trajectories relative to the considered quality measures
over the trajectories. Here, new challenges are to develop strategies to control,
predict, and bound the behavior of the system. We propose to investigate these challenges
using the IGC framework. The reasoning, which aims at controlling the computational
schemes from time-to-time, in order to achieve the required targets, is called an adaptive
judgement. This reasoning deals with granules and computations over them. Adaptive
judgement is more than a mixture of reasoning based on deduction, induction and
abduction. Due to the uncertainty the agents generally cannot predict exactly the results
of actions (or plans). Moreover, the approximations of the complex vague concepts
initiating actions (or plans) are drifting with time. Hence, adaptive strategies for evolving
approximations of concepts are needed. In particular, the adaptive judgement is very
much needed in the efficiency management of granular computations, carried out by
agents, for risk assessment, risk treatment, and cost/benefit analysis. In the lecture, we
emphasize the role of the rough set based methods in IGC. The discussed approach is
a step towards realization of the Wisdom Technology (WisTech) program, and is
developed over years of experiences, based on the work on different real-life projects.</p>
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