Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Lotfi A.
Zadeh, The founder of fuzzy logic
- comp.ai.fuzzy
- New fuzzy archive by thread.
- Fuzzy
Logic Tools and Companies. General
sources of fuzzy information.
- Maintained by Bob John.
- World Federation
on Soft Computing
- Artificial Intelligence-related Frequently Asked Questions
Professional Organizations and Networks
- International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA)
- IFSA is a worldwide organization dedicated to the support and development
of the theory of fuzzy sets and systems and related areas and their
applications, publishes the International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems,
holds International conferences, establishes chapters and sponsors other
activities.
- Japan
Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems (SOFT)
- Established in 1989. SOFT has 1,670 individual members and 74 company
members, publishes an official bimonthly journal and organizes fuzzy systems
symposiums. There are 8 regional branches and 8 research groups in SOFT.
- Berkeley
Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
- BISC Program is the world-leading center for basic and applied research in
soft computing. The principal constituents of soft computing (SC) are fuzzy
logic (FL), neural network theory (NN) and probabilistic reasoning (PR), with
the latter subsuming belief networks, evolutionary computing including DNA
computing, chaos theory and parts of learning theory.
- North American
Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS)
- As the premier fuzzy society in North America established in 1981, our
purpose is to help guide and encourage the development of fuzzy sets and
related technologies for the benefit of mankind.
- Please mail questions/comments to the NAFIPS president (president@nafips.org)
or to the NAFIPS web site maintainer (webmaster@nafips.org).
- Spanish
Association of Fuzzy Logic and Technologies
- Promotes and disseminates the methods, techniques and developments of
Fuzzy Logic and Technologies; Establish relations with other national or
international Associations with similar aims; Organizes seminars and round
tables on Fuzzy Logic and Technologies. Fuzzy Research
Groups in Spain.
- The European Society
for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT)
- Established in 1998. The main goal of EUSFLAT are to represent the
European fuzzy community of IFSA.
- Hungarian Fuzzy Society
- Established in 1998. Honorary president: Tibor Vámos. President: Imre Rudas.
- EUROFUSE Working Group on Fuzzy Sets of EURO
- Established in 1975. The purpose of EUROFUSE is to communicate and promote
the knowledge of the theory of fuzzy sets and related areas and their
applications. In 1985, the Group constituted itself as the European Chapter of
IFSA. It
was chaired by Christer Carlsson [1979-1986], Marc Roubens
[1986-1993] and Hans Hellendoorn [1993-1998]. From 1998, Bernard De
Baets and János
Fodor coordinate the working group called EUROFUSE and it does not
represent the European Chapter of IFSA any more.
- EUNITE
- EUropean Network on Intelligent TEchnologies for Smart Adaptive Systems
- On 1 January 2001, EUNITE - the European Network of Excellence on
Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems - has started. It is
funded by the Information Society Technologies Programme (IST) within
the European Union's Fifth RTD Framework Programme.
Fuzzy Logic Journals and Books
- Journal of
Fuzzy Sets and Systems.
- Official Publication of the International Fuzzy Systems Association.
International Journal of Soft Computing and Intelligence. Special Issues. Editors-in-Chief: Didier Dubois and
Henri Prade.
- The Journal
of Fuzzy Mathematics.
- The purpose of the journal is to improve the dissemination and exchange of
the theory and application in the fuzzy realm. It publish articles of real
significance and of high quality in the area of fuzzy sets and related fields.
Editor-in-Chief: Hu Cheng-ming.
- International Journal Uncertainty, Fuzziness and
Knowledge-Based Systems
- The aim of the journal is to promote theoretical, methodological or
practical works dealing with all kinds of methods to represent and manipulate
imperfectly described pieces of knowledge. Editor-in-Chief: Bernadette
Bouchon-Meunier.
- IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
- Publication of the IEEE Neural Networks Council.
- International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
- Dedicated to the dissemination of research results from the field of
approximate reasoning and its applications, with emphasis on the design and
implementation of intelligent systems for scientific and engineering
applications. Special Issues. Editor-in-Chief: Piero P. Bonissone.
- Information Sciences.
- Provides a forum for research workers in the field of information science
and expedites communication between them and applications-oriented scientists.
The journal contains three sections each with its own distinguished senior
associate editor. Special Issues. Editor-in-Chief: Paul P. Wang.
- International Journal of Intelligent Systems.
- Devoted to the systematic development of the theory necessary for the
construction of intelligent systems. Editor-in-Chief: Ronald R.
Yager.
- Mathware and
Soft Computing
- Basically includes theoretical contributions that use mathematical tools
and models that could be relevant in applications for Cognitive Sciences, pure
or applied Logic and Artificial Intelligence. Get it online!
- Journal
of Advanced Computational Intelligence & Intelligent Informatics.
- Focuses on Advanced Computational Intelligence, including the synergetic
integration of neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation, so
that more intelligent system can be built to industrial applications.
Editors-in-Chief: Toshio Fukuda and Kaoru Hirota
- Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems
- Fosters the exchange and dissemination of applications and case studies in
the areas of fuzzy logic and intelligent systems among working professionals
and professionals in education and research, among a broad cross-section of
technical disciplines.
- Soft Computing
- Aimed to provide rapid publication of important and timely results on soft
computing technologies. Managing Editor: Antonio Di Nola.
- Electronic
Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI)
- New area: Decision and Reasoning under Uncertainty (DRU). Area editors: Salem Benferhat and Henri
Prade.
- Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing series
- from Springer-Verlag. Editor: Janusz Kacprzyk.
- Advances in Soft Computing series
- from Springer-Verlag. Editor: Janusz Kacprzyk.
- The Handbooks
of Fuzzy Sets series
- from Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
- Advances in Fuzzy Systems series from World Scientific.
Research groups
- Fuzziness and
Uncertainty Modelling Research Group at Ghent University, Belgium
- Founded in 1976 by Prof. Dr. Etienne E. Kerre. Since that time,
theoretical and applied research is and has been done on numerous topics in or
related to fuzzy set theory.
- Human-Friendly Welfare Robot System Engineering Research Center at Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology
- Established in August, 1999 at KAIST, the Center for Human-friendly
Welfare Robotic Systems (HWRS) has been in operation to achieve the research
goals of designing and implementing some welfare-type service robots and
systems which can interact with human, work with human, and help human for the
human welfare.
- Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (PAMI) research group at University of Waterloo,
Canada
- The group was founded in 1980 as a part of the Department of Systems
Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. The group works on a wide
diversity of pertinent research areas. It also consists of several professors,
researchers and graduate students, as well as adjunct members from other
departments and universities. Fuzzy Image
Processing at PAMI.
- Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory at
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
- Research topics: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Uncertainty
Management, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic , Mathematical Morphology in Image
Processing, Parallel Processing, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence,
Neural Networks, Robotics, and Applied Image Recognition Systems.
- Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications at Informatik I at Uni. Dortmund, Germany
- Organizes the Fuzzy Days in Dortmund, The International Conferences on
Computational Intelligence
- Control Systems
Engineering Group at Faculty of Information Technology & Systems,
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- The main goal of the Control Systems Engineering group is to develop
methods and tools to control complex nonlinear dynamic systems in order to
improve their performance.
- Inst. for Research
and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling, Uni. Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Established in 1996. The main topic of interest of the institute is
research and development of soft computing methods. Director: Vilém Novák.
- Machine Intelligence Institute, USA
- Established at Iona College in 1985. The purpose of the Machine
Intelligence Institute is to help bring to fruition the promise of the current
generation of computer based technologies for the development of intelligent
knowledge based systems. Director: Ronald R.
Yager.
- Fuzzy
Logic in Integrated Reasoning , NRC Institute for Information Technology
Ottawa, Canada
- The IIT of the NRC has developed Fuzzy CLIPS, an enhanced version of CLIPS that supports
Fuzzy Logic. Their FuzzyJ Toolkitis a set of Java(tm) classes that can be
used to build fuzzy logic systems.
- Fuzzy Logic
Laboratorium Linz (FLLL), Linz, Austria
- After 15 years of theoretical research in Fuzzy Logic Erich Peter Klement founded the FLLL with the intention
of supporting the local industry with knowledge in this rather new area.
- Approximate Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence Group,
University of Granada, Spain
- Head: Antonio
González
- Research Group
on Artificial Intelligence, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
- Multi-agent systems, Belief modelling, Inductive Learning and Rule
Production, Fuzzy Sets.
- Research group on Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems,
Uni. Magdeburg, Germany
- The group, led by Rudolf Kruse, examines phenomenas of uncertainty and
vagueness in knowledge based systems, and develops and implements methods to
cope with them.
- ELITE -
European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering, Aachen,
Germany
- A foundation with objectives: Applied research and research support in
Europe, Sponsorship of activities related to intelligent technologies in
Europe, Coordination and support of scientists and practitioners in Europe, EUFIT, Exchange of
practitioners and scientists.
- Knowledge/Intelligence Systems Laboratory in the
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of
Toronto, Canada
- Research areas: Robotics, Fuzzy-Neural Integration, Fuzzy Clustering,
Reinforcement Learning, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Fuzzy Data
Mining
- Soft
computing and Fuzzy Logic Group at University of Milano, Italy
- Topics: Many-valued logics, Lukasiewicz logic, t-norm based logics,
MV-algebras, fuzzy control.
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