Rough Sets Fuzzy Sets Data Mining and Granular Computing : 9th International Conference RSFDGrC 2003 Chongqing China May 26–29 2003 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Rough Sets Fuzzy Sets Data Mining and Granular Computing RSFDGrC 2003 held in Chongqing China in May 2003. The 39 revised full papers and 75 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers and 11 invited plenary papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 245 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on rough sets foundations and methods; fuzzy sets and systems; granular computing; neural networks and evolutionary computing; data mining machine learning and pattern recognition; logics and reasoning; multi agent systems; and Web intelligence and intelligent systems