Zdzislaw Pawlak will be remembered as a great human being with exceptional humility, wit and kindness as well as an extraordinarily innovative researcher with exceptional stature. His research contributions have had far-reaching implications inasmuch as his works are fundamental in establishing new perspectives for scientific research in a wide spectrum of fields. Professor Pawlak's most widely recognized contribution is his brilliant approach to classifying objects with their attributes (features) and his introduction of approximation spaces, which establish the foundations of granular computing and provide frameworks for perception and knowledge discovery in many areas.
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