I knew Jim Gray as a colleague, a friend and an employee. He created the first Microsoft Research group outside of our initial research lab in Redmond, WA. Jim's impact on in...
For several decades there has been a debate in the computing sciences about the relative roles of design and empirical research, and about the contribution of design and research ...
The year 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the introduction of granular computing research. We have experienced the emergence and growth of granular computing research in the pas...
This paper briefly considers several research issues, some of which are on-going and some others are for further research. The starting point is that many AI topics, especially th...