In October 22-24, 2014, Heng-Ru Zhang attended the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2014). The conference was held at Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan.
Heng-Ru Zhang presented his paper "Interactive hybrid recommendation with granule selection," and shared ideas with others.
Granular Computing (GrC) is a general computation theory for effectiveness using granules such as subsets, neighborhoods, tuples (ordered subsets), relations (subsets of Cartesian products), fuzzy sets (membership functions), variables (measurable functions), Turing machines (algorithms), and intervals to build an efficient computational model for complex with huge amounts of data, information, and knowledge.
More information, please see: http://ieee-grc2014.org/