What is granular computing? As we have said in [6]: There are no mathematically valid formal definitions yet. Informally, any computing theory/technology that involves elements and granules (generalized subsets) may be called granular computing (GrC). Intuitively, elements are the data, and granules are the basic knowledge. So granular computing includes data and knowledge computing/ engineering, data mining, knowledge discovery, learning and the uncertainty management (granules of no knowledge). We may lump these subfields into AI-Engineering.
Citation:
Tsau Young (T. Y.) Lin, "Granular Computing, Computer Security andWeb Intelligence," compsac, vol. 1, pp.22-23, 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06), 2006