Call for Papers: Special Session on

Representation and Approximation of Fuzzy Numbers: Theory and Applications

The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers that have developed scientific activity in the representation of fuzzy numbers, in their approximations and in the construction of operators for exact or approximate fuzzy arithmetic, with particular emphasys on relevant applications of fuzzy calculus and systems.
Following recent and promising results, attention will be given to parametric representations of families of fuzzy numbers with no restrictions (linearity, concavity/convexity,etc.) of the shape form.
Both theoretical and applied papers will be welcome. Solicited application fields are applied economics and business, financial modelling, risk management, decision making, soft computing with massive fuzzy computations.

General Topics:
1. Parametric representation of fuzzy numbers and fuzzy arithmetic
2. Approximation of fuzzy numbers
3. Massive fuzzy computations
4. Applications and other related topics

Keywords/topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

LR and LU representation of fuzzy numbers;
Parametric fuzzy numbers and fuzzy intervals, generalized fuzzy numbers;
Fuzzy arithmetic and applications;
Approximation of fuzzy numbers, shape preserving approximation, nearest approximation;
Decomposition of fuzzy sets and fuzzy numbers;
Fuzzy extension principle and fuzzy extension of functions;
Massive computation in fuzzy arithmetic;
Fuzzy numbers in soft computing;
Fuzzy statistics, fuzzy regression and applications;
Algorithms for fuzzy arithmetic and fuzzy calculus;
Fuzzy differential equations and applications;

Instructions for Authors

The interested authors are invited to send a short description of the proposed paper (list of authors + tentative title + summary) to the session chairs lucste@uniurb.it (L. Stefanini) or pgrzeg@ibspan.waw.pl (P. Grzegorzewski) as soon as possible.

All instructions for effective submission can be found in the Conference Web site (ISDA'09). In particular, submitted papers should follow the IEEE paper format (template). All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only using EasyChair associated site of ISDA'09 Conference.

Publication

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ISDA'09 that will be also included in the IEEEXplore digital library.
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in one of the leading Journals in the field.

Important Dates

Submission of papers: June 20, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2009
Camera-ready manuscript submission: September 15, 2009.

Session Chairs and Contacts

Luciano Stefanini (University of Urbino, Italy ) and
Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski (University of Warsava, Poland)

Luciano Stefanini
   DEQM (Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods)
   University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”
   Address:    Via A. Saffi, 42
           61029 Urbino (PU), Italy
   E-mail:     lucste@uniurb.it
   Phone:      (+39) 722-305 503 , (+39) 722-305 510
   Fax:          (+39) 722-305 550

Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski Ph.D., D.Sc.
   Systems Research Institute
   Polish Academy of Sciences
   Address:    ul. Newelska 6
           01-447 Warsaw, Poland
   E-mail:     pgrzeg@ibspan.waw.pl
   Phone:      (+48) 22-381-02-07
   Fax:          (+48) 22-381-01-05
and
   Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences
   Warsaw University of Technology
   Plac Politechniki 1
   00-661 Warsaw, Poland

ISDA'09

9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications

November 30 - December 2, 2009, PISA, ITALY

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