Contributed by: Radko Mesiar Call for Papers IFSA'97 Prague Seventh IFSA World Congress June 25-29, 1997 International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) is pleased to announce that the next IFSA World Congress will take place in Prague in the Czech Republic in June 25-29, 1997. This is the first time this congress, which is regularly held every two years in either of America, Asia or Europe, will take place in a former East European country. All the information concerning the Congress and its program can be obtained from: * IFSA'97 * Action M Agency * Milena Zeithamlova * Vrsovicka 68 * 101 00 Prague 10 * Czech Republic * * tel: +42-2-6731 2333-4 * fax: +42-2-6731 0503 * e-mail: actionm@cuni.cz * WWW: http://is.vse.cz/ifsa97/home.htm * GOPHER: gopher.vse.cz * FTP: ciks.vse.cz Main Congress Topics - Fuzzy and non-standard logics and approximate reasoning - Mathematical foundations - Uncertainty and belief mesures - Information and data analysis - Natural language processing - Applications in social and economical sciences - Industrial applications - New hardware developments - Decision-making and control - Artificial intelligence and robotics - Neural networks and learning - Genetic algorithms and computational optimization - Chaos and its engineering - Classification and image processing The official language will be English. Instructions for the authors and a complete call for papers including the pre-registration form is available on ifsa97@vox.cvt.stuba.sk Dates and Deadlines =================== October 31, 1996 Deadline for submission of papers January 31, 1997 Notification of acceptance or rejection March 31, 1997 Reception of camera-ready papers May 15, 1997 Deadline for registration June 25-29, 1997 CONGRESS Honorary Chair ============== Lotfi A. Zadeh General Chair ============= Vilem Novak (University of Ostrava, Ostrava) *************** * Area Chairs * *************** Mathematical Background, Basic Science ====================================== Dan Butnariu E-mail: dbutnaru@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il Reasoning, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Information Systems =================================================================== B. Bouchon-Meunier E-mail: ifsa97@vox.cvt.stuba.sk Operation Research, Data Analysis, Economics, Preference Modeling, Decision Analysis ================================================================== Hideo Tanaka E-mail: hideot@center.osakafu-u.ac.jp Engineering Applications, Financial Engineering =============================================== Zeungnam Bien E-mail: zbien@ee.kaist.ac.kr Applications in Non-engineering Sciences, Life Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Medicine, Biology ==================================================================== Patrik Eklund E-mail: peklund@cs.umu.se Classification, Image Processing ================================ Jim Keller E-mail: keller@ece.missouri.edu Fuzzy Systems, Control, Neural Nets, Soft Computing =================================================== Witold Pedrycz E-mail: pedrycz@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca Other Topics ============ Radko Mesiar E-mail: ifsa97@vox.cvt.stuba.sk