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2025 IFSA-NAFIPS Joint Congress: Call for Papers, Deadline: April 13, 2025
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International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) World Congress and
2025 Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society (NAFIPS)
Banff, Alberta, Canada, August 16-19, 2025
https://www.ifsa-nafips2025.org
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(Venue)

The 21st IFSA World Congress and 44th Annual Meeting of NAFIPS
will be held together in Banff, Alberta, one of the jewel cities in
Canadian Rocky Mountains with a wealth of cultural and tourist attractions.
It is in a heart to Rocky Mountains and North Canada.
Banff offers a lot of possibilities to learn more about geographical
and cultural variety of western Canada.
The conference venue is the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Please take a look at https://www.banffcentre.ca/conferences

(Aims and Scope)

As a truly unique and international conference in the areas of
fuzzy sets and soft computing, 2025 IFSA-NAFIPS Joint Congress will
bring together scientists, engineers, students, and practitioners
working in fuzzy logic and related areas to present their recent
research accomplishments. The Congress offers a unique platform for
the exchange of ideas, fostering interaction and building
multidisciplinary research linkages.

(Topics)

The topics cover all aspects of fuzzy systems and their applications
including, but not limited to
• fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
• mathematical foundations of fuzzy sets and fuzzy systems
• approximate reasoning, fuzzy inference models, and soft computing
• fuzzy decision analysis, decision making, optimization, and design
• fuzzy system architectures and hardware
• fuzzy methods in data analysis, statistics and imprecise probability
• fuzzy databases and information retrieval
• fuzzy pattern recognition and image processing
• fuzzy sets in management science
• fuzzy control and robotics
• possibility theory
• fuzzy sets and logic in ontology, web, and social networks
• fuzzy preference modeling
• fuzzy sets in operations research and manufacturing
• fuzzy database mining and financial forecasting
• fuzzy neural networks
• evolutionary and hybrid systems
• intelligent agents and ambient intelligence
• learning, adaptive, and evolvable fuzzy systems

(Special Sessions)

Four special sessions below have been accepted.
If you want to organize your SS, you still have a chance.
Please contact the Program Chairs.

* Special Session on Interval Uncertainty
Organizers: Martine Ceberio (University of Texas at El Paso),
Christoph Lauter (University of Texas at El Paso),
Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso)

* Special Session on Fuzzy Education
Organizers: Christian Servin (El Paso Community College),
Olga Kosheleva (University of Texas at El Paso)

* Special Session on Theory and Applications of Fuzzy Reasoning Systems
Organizers: Michal Baczynski (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland),
Krzysztof Dyczkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland),
Barbara Pekala (University of Rzeszów, Poland)

* Special Session on Modeling Continuous Logic Agents
Organizers: Mario G.C.A. Cimino (University of Pisa, Italy, mario.cimino@unipi.it),
Sabrina Senatore (University of Salerno, Italy)

(Paper Categories)

Paper categories and important dates:
We offer three paper categories as follows.

Full Papers
* 6-12 pages, to appear in the Springer Proceedings
* Submission due: April 13, 2025
* Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2025
* Camera Ready: June 15, 2025

Extended Abstracts
* 1-2 pages, to appear only in the Conference Booklet
* Papers due: June 15, 2025
* Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2025
* Camera Ready: July 7, 2025

Late-Breaking Papers
* 6-12 pages, to appear in Springer Proceedings
* Papers due: June 15, 2025
* Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2025
* Camera Ready: July 7, 2025

(Inquiry)

ifsanafips2025@gmail.com

General Chair:
Marek Z. Reformat (University of Alberta)
Program Co-Chairs:
Yusuke Nojima (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
Sabrina Senatore (University of Salerno, Italy)
Vladik Keinovich (University of Texas at El Paso, US)