International Rough Set Society / Candidate 
nomination in IRSS elections

Dear Member of IRSS,

As announced by the IRSS President, Prof. Roman Slowinski, in his recent email (see also http://roughsets.home.pl/www/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=2), it is time to gather nominations for candidates in the forthcoming IRSS elections.

The positions to be filled are: Vice President, Secretary, Steering Committee Chair, and Advisory Board Chair. They will act as the new Officers of IRSS in the 2-year period between the RSCTC 2012 Conference in Chengdu and the RSCTC 2014 Conference in Madrid.

According to the IRSS Constitution (see http://roughsets.home.pl/www/images/PDF/irss%20constitution%202011.pdf) and the IRSS Bylaws (see http://roughsets.home.pl/www/images/PDF/irss%20bylaws%202011.pdf), I will be preparing the pool of nominees for positions listed above.

I would like to ask all of you to send your nominations. You are very welcome to send nominations for all the above-listed positions, or for any subset. When considering possible nominations, kindly refer to the prerequisites for the nominees, as stated in Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the IRSS Bylaws.

In particular, please note that there is no election for the position of President. According to Section 5 of the IRSS Constitution, the former Vice President is automatically appointed as the President at the IRSS meeting held at the RSCTC Conference. Please also note that according to Subsection 3.5 and footnote 4 in the IRSS Bylawsit is now the time to elect Vice President representing the Australasia region.Please kindly send your nominations directly to my email address ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by the end of April 2012.

Please also feel free to send me any questions and remarksabout the 2012 IRSS Elections.

Many thanks and best regards,

Dominik Slezak

Vice President of the IRSS

   

Dear Members of the International Rough Set Society,

Two years ago, the Executive Board of IRSS has been elected together with its president and vice-president.

The two years of our presidency were devoted to co-ordination of several rough set conferences and to planning of future events. We are pleased to remark that the portfolio of rough set related conferences until 2014 is quite rich. Moreover, we undertook a joint project concerning writing a part of the Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence devoted to Rough Sets. There will be an opportunity to discuss the past and future projects and events during the IRSS business meeting at the JRS conference in Chengdu, this August.

By the present letter, I would like to remind you that, according to the new IRSS Constitution, it is time for the president of IRSS to step down at the forthcoming JRS conference, and pass this position to the acting vice-president. This also requires to elect new vice-president who will become president at the next RSCTC conference to be held in 2014 in Madrid. Below, please find the excerpts of the Constitution and Bylaws of IRSS explaining the election procedure.

As the election of the new vice-president should be done before the JRS conference in Chengdu, I will ask Dominik Ślęzak, the current vice-president of IRSS, to send out a call for nominations and to carry out the election in Spring.

The call for nominations will be also related to the election of new secretary, as well as SC and AB chairs. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the current secretary, treasurer, SC and AB chairs and vice-chairs, as well as editors of IRSS www page and bulletin for their excellent work and co-operation.

With all good wishes,