Subject: Call for papers - IFSA2005

                                CALL FOR PAPERS



                            IFSA2005 World Congress



                        July 28-31, 2005, Beijing China
                      http:// ifsa2005.em.tsinghua.edu.cn



      The 11th World Congress of International Fuzzy Systems
      Association (IFSA 2005) will be held in Beijing China, July
      28-31, 2005. As a major bi-annual event of IFSA, the Congress
      aims at bringing together scholars and practitioners from
      academia and industries to present the latest development in
      theories and applications of fuzzy logic and soft computing.
      The scientific program will include keynote/plenary talks and
      technical parallel sessions that address important issues of
      interest in the fields. The Congress will serve as a platform
      not only for knowledge sharing, but also for stimulating new
      ideas in broadening and deepening theoretical and applied
      explorations of fuzzy logic and soft computing. Notably,
      IFSA2005 will take place in the year of IFSA¡¯s 20th
      anniversary, which may well be an event of memory and
      celebration in the course of its evolution.

      This IFSA World Congress is to be the first-time-ever in
      Mainland China. China is a dynamic nation with a rapid
      economic growth and huge market. The conference site is
      Beijing, which has been the capital of China for about five
      hundred years, and is now one of the largest international
      cities in the world. Nowadays, as the cultural, educational
      and Hi-tech center of the nation, Beijing possesses a large
      number of world-class conference facilities, communication
      infrastructures and hotels, and has successfully hosted many
      important international conferences. In addition, Beijing is
      an ideal place for sightseeing. Its rich cultures and
      historical attractions such as the Great Wall, Forbidden
      City, Summer Palace, and Temple of Heaven will provide
      participants with unique experiences for social activities.

      Topics
      We solicit papers on theoretical issues and their
      applications related to fuzzy logic and soft computing.
      Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
      Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy Set Theory Fuzzy Logic and
      Approximate Reasoning Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and
      Soft Computing Fuzzy Control, Robots and Intelligent
      Techniques Expert Systems and Computational Intelligence
      Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Rough Sets and Evidence
      Theory Uncertainty in Decision Sciences and Optimization
      Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Fuzzy
      Databases and Information Retrieval Hybrid Systems

      Honorary Chair:       Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA
      General Chair:         Yingming Liu, China
      Organizing Chair:     Guoqing Chen, China
      Program Chair:        Mingsheng Ying, China

      Advisory Committee
                  Zeungnam Bien, Korea Witold Pedrycz, Canada
                  George J. Klir, USA Philippe Smets, Belgium
                 Laszlo T. Koczy, Hungary Michio Sugeno, Japan
                    Yingming Liu, China Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA
                    Ebrahim Mamdani, UK Chunjun Zhao, China
            Zdzislaw Pawlak, Poland Hans-Jurgen Zimmermann, Germany



      Local Organization Committee

      Yixiang Chen, China
      Dexue Zhang, China
      Wenxiu Zhang, China
      Chongyou Zheng, China

      Program Committee (Not Completed)
      ¡¡
      M. Berthold (Germany) Maokang Luo (China)
      James C. Bezdek (USA) Luis Magdalena (Spain)
      Taner Bilgic (Turkey) Trevor Martin (UK)
      Piero Bonissone (USA) Kyung Chan Min (Korea)
      Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (France) Masao Mukaidono (Japan)
      Kai-Yuan Cai (China) Vesa Niskanen (Finland)
      Christer Carlsson (Finland) Vilem Novak (Czech Republic)
      Oscar Castillo (Mexico) Fred Petry (USA)
      Guoqing Chen (China) Nguyen Hoang Phuong (Vietnam)
      Didier Dubois (France) Henri Prade (France)
      Takeshi Furuhashi (Japan) Arthur Ramer (Australia)
      Giangiacomo Gerla (Italy) Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee (Korea)
      Lluis Godo (Spain) Da Ruan (Belgium)
      Fernando Gomide (Brazil) Elie Sanchez (France)
      Kaoru Hirota (Japan) Sandra Sandri(Brazil)
      Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland) Thomas Sudkamp (USA)
      Okiay Kaynak (Turkey) I. Burhan Turksen (Canada)
      Jim Keller (USA) M. Amparo Vila Miranda (Spain)
      Etienne E. Kerre (Belgium) Guojun Wang (China)
      Erich P. Klement (Austria) Li-Xin Wang (Hong Kong China)
      Donald Kraft (USA) Paul P. Wang (USA)
      Rudolf Kruse (Germany) Congxin Wu (China)
      Jonathan Lee (Taiwan China) Ronald R. Yager (USA)
      Hongxing Li (China) John Yen (USA)
      C.T.Lin (Taiwan China) Mingsheng Ying (China)
      Zhiqiang Liu  (Hong Kong China) ¡¡

      Important Dates
      ¡¡
      Deadline for Submission October 31, 2004
      Notification of Acceptance January 20, 2005
      Final Version due February 28, 2005
      Conference July 28-31, 2005

      Organized by
       o  Fuzzy Mathematics and Fuzzy Systems Association of China
          (The IFSA China Chapter)

       o  Tsinghua University
       o  Sichuan University

      Supported by
       o  National Natural Science Foundation of China
       o  The Systems Engineering Society of China
       o  China Automation Association
       o  China Computer Federation
       o  Chinese Mathematical Society

      Detailed information about the paper submission, proceedings,
      registration, accommodation, journal special issues, student
      paper award, conference program, etc., will be available at
      the conference web site (http://ifsa2005.em.tsinghua.edu.cn)
      and in forthcoming CFPs. You may also contact us at:

          Professor Guoqing Chen
          IFSA2005 Organizing Committee and Secretariat
          School of Economics and Management
          Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
          Tel./Fax: 86-10-62789925
          Email: ifsa2005@em.tsinghua.edu.cn