INVITED SPECIAL SESSION 1IS

IFSA 2007 World Congress

Cancun, Mexico, June 18-21,= 2007

Relation between Interval and Fuzzy Techniques

ORGANIZERS: Vladik = Kreinovich and Hung T. Nguyen

SCOPE: The proposed session is planned to include all aspects of rel= ations between interval and fuzzy techniques, including:

* the use of i= nterval techniques to process fuzzy data - the use
motivated by the fact that a fuzzy number can be represented as
a nested family of intervals, and fuzzy data processing can be
described as processing the corresponding intervals
layer-by-layer

* theory and applications of interval-valued fuzzy sets

* general applications combining interval and fuzzy information

* results and algorithms from interval mathematics that are of
potential use in fuzzy applications

* challenging application-motivated open problems related to the
relation between interval and fuzzy techniques, including the
problems related to the need to go beyond interval-valued fuzzy
sets, for example:

* to more general second-order fuzzy sets, and

* to techniques combining interval, fuzzy, and other types of
uncertainty (probabilistic, rough sets, etc.).

CONTACT INFORM= ATION: contact Vladik Kreinovich<= /span>
mailing address:

Vladik Kreinovich Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University
El Paso, TX 79968, USA
email vladik@utep.edu
phone (915) 747-6951
fax (= 915) 747-5030