NAFIPS'96 Conference in Berkeley - CFP
Michael Lee (leem@cs.berkeley.edu)
Fri, 8 Dec 1995 19:38:36 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS
NAFIPS'96
BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN FUZZY INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY
JUNE 20-22, 1996
SODA HALL
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
THEME: NEW FRONTIERS IN FUZZY LOGIC AND SOFT COMPUTING
SPONSORS:
NAFIPS - North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
BISC - Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing
IN COOPERATION WITH:
IEEE Neural Networks Council
ORGANIZING INSTITUTION:
University of California, Berkeley, USA
HONORARY CHAIR:
Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA
GENERAL CHAIR:
Michael H. Smith, USA, Canada
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Jim Keller, USA Michael A. Lee, USA John Yen, USA
LOCAL CHAIR:
Michael A. Lee, USA
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Bilal M. Ayyub, USA Hamid Berenji, USA
Jim Bezdek, USA Zeungnam Bien, Korea
Piero Bonissone, USA James Buckley, USA
Su-Shing Chen, USA Stephen Chiu, USA
Valerie Cross, USA Rajesh N. Dave, USA
Valerie Davidson, Canada Didier Dubois, France
Elizabeth Dunn, USA Augustine O. Esogbue, USA
Dimitar Filev, USA George J. Klir, USA
Toshio Fukuda, Japan Takeshi Furuhashi, Japan
Paul Gader, USA William A. Gruver, Canada
Madan M. Gupta, Canada Lawrence O. Hall, USA
Nancy Green Hall, USA Kaoru Hirota, Japan
Can Isik, USA Mo Jamshidi, USA
Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Taiwan Abe Kandel, USA
Bart Kosko, USA Vladik Kreinovich, USA
Raghu Krishnaparam, USA Rudolf Kruse, Germany
Reza Langari, USA Robert Lea, USA
Jonathan Lee, Taiwan Frank X.Q. Liu, USA
E.H. Mamdani, UK John A. Meech, Canada
Sunanda Mitra, USA Witold Pedrycz, Canada
Fred Petry, USA Henri Prade, France
Anca L. Ralescu, USA Dan A. Ralescu, USA
Enrique Ruspini, USA Jose Sanchez, Mexico
Moti Schneider, Israel Brian Schott, USA
Rogelio Soto, Mexico Tom Sudkamp, USA
Michio Sugeno, Japan Chuen-Tsai Sun, Taiwan
Hideyuki Takagi, Japan I. Burhan Turksen, Canada
Paul P. Wang, USA Tom Whalen, USA
Ronald R. Yager, USA Takeshi Yamakawa, Japan
Hao Ying, USA Maria Zemankova, USA
Hans Zimmermann, Germany
The past few years have witnessed a crystallization of soft computing
as a distinct body of concepts and techniques which is oriented toward the
conception and design of intelligent systems. Soft Computing is not a single
methodology. Rather it is a partnership of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing and
probabilistic reasoning, with the latter subsuming genetic algorithms, chaotic
systems, belief networks and parts of learning theory.
Within soft computing, the principal contribution of fuzzy logic is a
methodology for exploiting the tolerance for imprecision to achieve
tractability, robustness, low solution cost and better rapport with reality.
However, what is becoming increasingly clear is that there are many situations
in which it is advantageous to employ fuzzy logic, neurocomputing and
probabilistic reasoning in combination rather than exclusively. At this
juncture, neurofuzzy systems have the highest visibility, with fuzzy-genetic
and neuro-fuzzy-genetic systems steadily gaining in importance.
In the years ahead, such hybrid systems are likely to find wide-
ranging applications, especially in the realm of high MIQ systems. This is the
keynote theme of the 1996 NAFIPS Conference. Reflecting this theme, NAFIPS'96
will focus on - but not be limited to:
Fuzzy Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Neuro and Fuzzy Control,
Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Fuzzy Sets and Possibility Theory,
Fuzzy Databases, Approximate Reasoning, Engineering, Scientific and
Business Applications
IMPORTANT DATES
January 5,1996: Send 4 copies of a 2-3 page extended abstract or
a 5 page full paper (strongly recommended) for contributed
and invited sessions to Dr. Michael A. Lee, 329 Soda Hall,
Computer Science Division, University of California,
Berkeley, California, 94720-1776, USA.
February 19, 1996: Preliminary acceptance.
March 20, 1996: Registration fees and camera ready papers due for all
sessions.
CONFERENCE AND CONFERENCE SITE
Plenary talks will be given by:
Lotfi Zadeh - "Fuzzy Logic: The Challenges and Perspectives,"
Hans Zimmermann - "Fuzzy Logic on the Frontiers of Decision Analysis and
Expert Systems," and
Michio Sugeno - "Fuzzy Logic on the Frontiers of Control."
Awards will be presented for outstanding papers related to the theme.
Some sessions will include extended presentations titled:
"Current Overview: Past, Present, and Future"
on the session topic delivered by experts such as Jim Bezdek, Jim Keller,
Witold Pedrycz, Ronald Yager, Maria Zemankova, and Hans Zimmermann.
The conference also plans to include an exhibition of state-of-the-art
hardware and software products. An exhibition prospectus and space reservation
can be obtained from the Local Chair.
The conference will be held on the Berkeley campus in Soda Hall, the
newly completed Computer Science Building. The tentative banquet site will be
the University of California Art Museum with dinner served in the art
galleries.
The university is within walking distance of many restaurants and
shops and San Francisco is a short distance away. Berkeley is well known for
its variety of ethnic restaurants and boasts the highest number of restaurants
per capita in the state. The area is served by many buses and the BART rail
system. Cost conscious local hotel and dormitory arrangements are being made
starting at $38/single per night.
To be placed on the mailing list for future notices, please send name
and address to the Local Chair, Michael A. Lee.
For further information please contact either:
Michael H. Smith, General Chair
email: mhs@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu
fax: 604-924-1006
phone: 604-924-1001
or
Michael A. Lee, Co-program Chair and Local Chair
email: leem@cs.berkeley.edu
fax: 510-642-5775
phone: 510-642-9827
Visit the WWW page at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/bisc/NAFIPS96.html
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Michael A. Lee
Post Doctoral Researcher
Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing Tel: +1-510-642-9827
Computer Science Division Fax: +1-510-642-5775
University of California Email: leem@cs.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 USA WWW: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~leem
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