Aims and Scope

NAFIPS 2012 aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in the area of fuzzy information processing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, to consider potential future directions.


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 modelling

• 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