Granular Computing: a New Paradigm in Information Processing

Granular computing (GrC) has emerged as one of the fastest growing information processing paradigm in computational intelligence and human-centric systems. It has been gaining popularity in the past ten years. GrC is often loosely defined as an umbrella term to cover any theories, methodologies, techniques, and tools that make use of granules in complex problem solving. As a new paradigm for the problem solving, GrC may be viewed differently from philosophical, methodological and application perspectives. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to granular computing and discuss its present developments and research directions.