Call for Papers
Scope
Since Lotfi Zadeh coined the term “Soft Computing” in 1991, this area of research in intelligent systems has developed rapidly both in its theoretical aspects and in its business applications.
Soft Computing has been mainly focused on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, Probabilistic Reasoning and their hybridizations. In general, however, Soft Computing includes all techniques and paradigms that exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve robustness, tractability, and low cost in solving complex problems. This feature makes very attractive the application of Soft Computing techniques for approaching different kinds of real-world problems both in typology (modelling, optimisation, planning, control, forecasting, data mining, etc.) and in diverse areas such as industrial production, logistics, energy, banking, food industry, etc.
Application of Soft Computing to real-world problems is, nevertheless, not straightforward, as it involves several issues (like knowledge representation, learning models, evaluation criteria, etc.) requiring crucial choices among several approaches proposed in literature. On the other hand, results and lessons learnt from the application of Soft Computing to real-world problems is of primary importance for methodological research with the aim of refining existing methods or devising new techniques.
As an emblematic example, most Soft Computing techniques are well-recognized because of their ability to learn knowledge from data but not all of them are able to express this knowledge in a comprehensible form. However, comprehensibility is an issue of main concern in several application areas like Medicine, Economics, etc. For instance, decision support systems in Medicine must be easily comprehensible, for both physicians and patients, with the aim of being widely accepted and successfully applicable.
The objective of this special session is to provide a forum to discuss and disseminate recent and significant research efforts on the Soft Computing research area dealing with challenging applications. The aim of this forum is to facilitate cross-fertilization between methodological and applied research, and hence to give new highlights on novel applications and methods. Notice that, we especially encourage the submission of papers related to applications involving intensive interaction with humans where interpretability becomes a strong requirement.
Topics
Topics of the special session include, but are not limited to, Soft Computing approaches such as:
- Fuzzy Logic
- Neural Networks
- Evolutionary Computing
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- Hybrid Approaches
in/for:
- Medical Applications
- Robotics
- Intelligent Transportantion Systems
- Industrial Applications
- Logistics
- Energy
- Banking / Finance
- Food Industry
- Agricultural Applications
- Information & Communication Technology
- E-learning
- Human & Social sciences
Paper Submission
Please follow the instructions given at the corresponding section.
Organizers
- Jose M. Alonso: jose.alonso@softcomputing.es
European Centre for Soft Computing (Mieres – Asturias, Spain) - Corrado Mencar: mencar@di.uniba.it
Department of Informatics at the University of Bari (Italy)
Department of Computer Science, Pablo of Olavide University of Seville, Spain