IFSA '95 Sixth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress Sao Paulo-Brazil July 22-28, 1995 ___________ First Call for Papers ___________ The International Fuzzy Systems Association is pleased to announce the sixth IFSA World Congress (IFSA '95) to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from July 22nd to 28th, 1995. The goals of the congress are twofold; the first is to encourage communication between researchers throughout the world whose research either draws support from, or complements, the theory and applications of fuzzy sets related models. The second goal is to explore industrial applications of fuzzy systems technology to make systems more convenient. The theme of IFSA '95 is "New Frontiers", aiming at enlarging the horizons of research in fuzzy sets beyond its traditional areas. The congress is divided into 7 main topical areas, whose themes include, but are not limited to, the theory or applications in the topics listed below with the respective area chairs. Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts for consideration by the program committee. Four copies of 4-page extended abstracts, one paper submission form, and one cadastration form filled for each author, should be sent to the secretariat (see address below) before November 1st, 1994. Fax submissions will not be accepted. The proceedings will contain the final versions of refereed papers, prepared on camera-ready sheets. For any further inquires, please send a message to ifsa95@dep.fem.unicamp.br. DATES _____ . Tutorials July 22 - 23, 1995 . Conference July 24 - 28, 1995 . Demonstrations July 22 - 28, 1995 DEADLINES _________ . Reception of 4 copies of 4-page extended abstracts; 1 cadastration form for each author; and 1 paper submission form - November 1st, 1994 . Notification of acceptance - February 1st, 1995 . Reception of final camera ready copy for proceedings - April 1st, 1995 SECRETARIAT ___________ Address : INPE/Setor de Eventos/ IFSA'95 Av. dos Astronautas, 1758 - Caixa Postal 515 12201-970 Sao Jose' dos Campos - SP - Brazil Phone: +55-123-418977 Fax: +55-123-218743 IFSA'95 MAILING LIST SUBSCRIPTION AND SPECIFIC INFORMATION __________________________________________________________ To subscribe to IFSA'95 mailing list please send a message to : listserv@cesar.unicamp.br In the body of the message please write "subscribe IFSA" along with your name, in a line by itself. For further information please contact : ifsa95@dep.fem.unicamp.br ORGANIZERS __________ General Chairman : Armando Rocha (Brazil) Vice Chairman : George Klir (USA) Honorary Chairman : Lofti Zadeh (USA) Honorary Vice-Chairmen: J. Bezdeck (USA) D. Dubois (France) E. Sanchez (France) T. Terano (Japan) H.-J. Zimmerman (Germany) Steering Commitee Chairwoman : Sandra Sandri (Brazil) Scientific Board Chairman : Fernando Gomide (Brazil) Local Arrangements Chairman : Marcio Rillo (Brazil) AREA CHAIRS ___________ Artificial Intelligence - Ronald Yager (USA) _______________________________________________________________________ Approximate Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation, Expert Systems Design, Natural Language Issues, Decision Making, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Distributed AI, Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Life, Evolutionary Systems, and other related topics. Engineering - Kaoru Hirota (Japan) _______________________________________________________________________ Fuzzy Control, Hybrid Control, Industrial Robots, Intelligent Robotics, Industrial Systems, Fuzzy Petri Nets, Manufacturing, and other related topics. Mathematical Foundations - Peter Klement _______________________________________________________________________ Non-Classical Logics, Category Theory, Analysis Algebra and Topology, Functional Equations, Fuzzy Measures, Approximation Theory, Evidence Theory & Probability & Statistics, Relational Equations, and other related topics. Information Sciences - Henri Prade (France) _______________________________________________________________________ Automata, Fuzzy Grammars, Formal Languages, Information Retrieval, Fuzzy Databases, Distributed Data Bases, Information Theory, Distributed Soft-Computing, and other related topics. Health Sciences, Biology, Psychology - Donna Hudson (USA) _______________________________________________________________________ Medical Diagnosis, Intelligent Patient Monitoring, Laboratory Intelligent Systems, Applications in Molecular Biology, Physiology, Pharmacology, Perception, and other related topics. Neural Nets and Hardware - Takeshi Yamakawa (Japan) _______________________________________________________________________ Neural Nets, System Identifications by Neural Networks, Neural Chips, Hardware Implementations of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Hardware and Fuzzy Logic Computers Implementation, Novel Devices for Neural & Chaotic Systems, and other related topics. Fuzzy Systems - J.L. Verdegay (Spain) _______________________________________________________________________ Fuzzy Linear and Non-linear Programming, Multiple Objective Decision Making, Fuzzy Mathematic Programming, Multiple Criteria Decision, Multi-person Decision Making, Operational Research, Management, Economic Systems, Fuzzy Databases, Distributed Data Bases, and other related topics. Also, papers not classified in the above areas. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CADASTRATION FORM Last Name ____________________________________________________________ First name ___________________________________________________________ Organization/Affiliation _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Address ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Zip/Postal Code _____________________ City ___________________________ Country ______________________________________________________________ Telephone ___________________________________________________________ Fax __________________________________________________________________ E-mail address ______________________________________________________ 1a) Do you intend to submit a paper at the conference ? Yes __ No __ 1b) As main author ? Yes __ No __ 2) Do you intend to attend the conference ? Yes __ No __ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PAPER SUBMISSION FORM Title ________________________________________________________________ Authors ______________________________________________________________ Reader at the conference _____________________________________________ Area of the paper (please mark only one option) [ ] Artificial Intelligence [ ] Engineering [ ] Mathematical Foundations [ ] Information Sciences [ ] Health Sciences, Biology, Psychology [ ] Neural Nets and Hardware [ ] Fuzzy Systems