Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee (FSTC)

1. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee (FSTC) Activity Report July 2014 Chair: Uzay Kaymak (Netherlands) • Vice-chairs: Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul (Thailand) • Scott Dick (Canada)

2. Fuzzy SystemsTechnical Committee • 35 members (32+3 proposed) • Geographical distribution: • Europe: 14 • Asia: 10 • North Americas: 8 • Latin Americas: 2 • Oceania: 1 • Africa: 0 • Male: 27, Female: 8 • Members from industry: 4 • New members: 10

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4. Fuzzy Systems TC Main Conference FUZZ-IEEE: IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

5. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Task Force Overview • 10 current task forces • Zero new task forces:one proposedone under discussion • Task Forces Terminated: • Education • Fuzzy transform

6. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Task Force List (1) Adaptive and Evolving Fuzzy SystemsChair: Plamen Angelov CompetitionsChair: Xiaojun Zeng Computing with WordsChair: Sergio Guadarrama Evolutionary Fuzzy SystemsChair: Yusuke Nojima Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy SetsChair: Hani Hagras Fuzzy Control Theory and ApplicationChair: Jun Yoneyama

7. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Task Force List (2) Fuzzy Logic in Medical SciencesChair: SyojiKobashi Fuzzy Modeling in Brain Computer Interactions and Cognitive SystemsChair: Li-Wei (Leo) Ko Fuzzy Systems on Renewable EnergyChair: Faa-Jeng Lin Fuzzy Systems SoftwareChair: Jesús Alcalá-Fernandez Complex Fuzzy Sets and Logic (proposed)Chair: Scott Dick Fuzzy Systems for Web Intelligence (proposed)Chair: Marek Reformat

8. Fuzzy Systems Technical CommitteeDiscussions at TC meeting • Announcements of upcoming CIS conferences • Overview of FUZZ-IEEE 2014 and lessons learnt • Number of submissions stable • Special sessions seem to overshadow regular sessions • Coordination amongst different fuzzy systems conferences • Update on FUZZ-IEEE 2015, Istanbul, preparations • More emphasis on emerging directions • Balanced program between regular sessions, special sessions, tutorials and panels • Explore possibility of special issues from excellent papers • Preparations for celebrating 50 years of fuzzy sets in 2015 • Various activities during FUZZ-IEEE 2015, incl. fuzzy systems pioneers

9. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI 2014 • Activities Organized at WCCI2014 • Special sessions organized (organizers, title) • P. Angelov & D. Filev, Adaptive and Evolving Systems • P. Angelov. Panel session/special talks on Big Data Analytics • F.-J. Lin, H.-T. Yang. Fuzzy Systems on Renewable Energy • R. Alcalá, Y. Nojima, H. Ishibuchi, F. Herrera. Evolutionary fuzzy systems • H. Hagras, C. Wagner, D. Wu. Applications of Type-2 Fuzzy Systems • R. John, J. Garibaldi, S. Coupland. Theory of Type-2 Fuzzy Systems • H. Ying, T. Kumbasar, E. Yesil. Advances to Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control • C. Wagner, D. Wu, F. Doctor. Computational Intelligence for Physiological and Affective Computing • S. Kobashi, Md. A. RahmanAhad. Paradigms of Fuzzy Systems for Medical Benefits • J. Alcalá-Fdez, J. M. Alonso. Software for Soft Computing • K. Crockett, B. Bouchon-Meunier, P.-C. Chung, G. Yen. Applications of Computational Intelligence in Education and Disability to Benefit Society

10. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI 2014 • Activities Organized at WCCI2014 • Special sessions organized (organizers, title) • V.E. Balas, T.-C. Lin, R. Dey. Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Time-delay Systems Control • S. Dick, D. Tamir. Complex Fuzzy Sets and Logic • C.S. Chan, J. Keller, D.T. Anderson, T.X. Han. Fuzzy Set Theory in Computer Vision • V.E. Balas, N. Popescu-Bodorin. Fuzzy Techniques in Biometrics • J. Mendel, M.R. Rajati. Computing with Words • G. Beliakov, S. James, G. Li. Aggregation Operators • N. Pal, Plenary panel “Is publish-or-perish causing death of science” • J. Mendel, Plenary panel “Big data and machine learning” • J. Yoneyama, T. Taniguchi, H.-K. Lam. Recent Advances in Fuzzy-Model-Based Control Design and Analysis

11. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI 2014 • Activities Organized at WCCI2014 • Tutorials organized (organizers, title) • P. Angelov, J. Principe, A. Roy. Autonomous Learning. • J. Mendel. Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems with Application to Perceptual Computing. • S. M. Vieira, U. Kaymak, J. M. Sousa. Probabilisticfuzzy systems.

12. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee • Activities to be organized at SSCI2014 • Special sessions organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member) • P. Angelov, D. Filev, N. Kasabov. Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS’14), TF Adaptive & Evolving Systems, P. Angelov, D. Filev. • Xiao-Jun Zeng. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (IEEE CICA'2014), TF Competitions, Xiao-Jun Zeng. • H. Hagras, V. Loia. IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Agents, TF Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Sets, H. Hagras. • M. Beer, R. Kruse, V. Kreinovich. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES'14), V. Kreinovich, R. Kruse. • D. Srinivasan, J. Dauwels, A. Bazzan. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems (CIVTS’14), D. Srinivasan. • Y. Jin, P. Bonissone, J. Branke. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making (IEEE MCDM'2014), P. Bonissone.

13. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee • Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) • Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) • Plenary on autonomous learning systems, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems, P. Angelov. • Key note on autonomous learning of big data streams, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, P. Angelov. • E. Lughofer, M. SayedMouchaweh, Special issue on Evolving Systems Applications, Evolving Systems, TF Adaptive and Evolving Fuzzy Systems. • R. Seising. Issue 1, Archives for the Philosophy and History of Soft Computing. • R. Seising, Invited key speech, IEEE 2014 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, R. Seising. • J. Inthorn, M.E. Tabacchi, R. Seising. Chapter contribution in Machine Medical Ethics. • J. Mendel, H. Hagras, W. Wan Tan, H. Ying, W. Melek. Book preparation titled “Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control”, TF Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Sets, H. Hagras, J. Mendel.

14. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee • Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) • Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) • T. Aste, A. Serguieva, U. Kaymak. Spring School on Financial Computing and Analytics, U. Kaymak. • A. Serguieva. 2014 IEEE Conference on Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr 2014), U. Kaymak. • The 4th International eCongress on Computers and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE 2014), M.-R. Akbarzadeh-T. • The 14th Iranian Conference on Fuzzy Systems (ICFS 2014), M.-R. Akbarzadeh-T. • The 20th National Computer Conference of Iran (CSICC2015 ), M.-R. Akbarzadeh-T. • M. Ceberio, V. Kreinovich (eds.). Constraint Programming and Decision Making, edited volume, V. Kreinovich. • V.-N. Huynh, V. Kreinovich, S. Sriboonchitta (eds.). Modeling Dependence in Econometrics, edited volume, V. Kreinovich.

15. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee • Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) • Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) • M. Jamshidi, V. Kreinovich, J. Kacprzyk (eds.). Advanced Trends in Soft Computing, edited volume, V. Kreinovich, J. Kacprzyk. • M. Ceberio, V. Kreinovich. Special issue of Journal of Uncertain Systems on Uncertainty, to appear 2015, Vol. 9, V. Kreinovich. • M. Ceberio, V. Kreinovich. Special issue of Journal of Uncertain Systems on Uncertainty, 2014, Vol. 8, No.3, V. Kreinovich. • V.-N. Huynh, V. Kreinovich, Special issue of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning on Uncertainty in Financial Econometrics, •              2013, Vol. 54, No. 6, V. Kreinovich.