NAFIPS 2017 -- CALL FOR PAPERS

You are cordially invited to participate in the 36th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference, NAFIPS 2017, to be held in Cancun, Mexico, on October 16 to October 18 (included), 2017. NAFIPS 2017 aims at bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to share and present the latest achievements and innovations in the area of fuzzy information processing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, and to consider potential future directions.

Topics of interest include:

• Fuzzy sets methodology/Algorithms/Mathematics
• Fuzzy neural networks
• Type-2 fuzzy logic/Models/Applications
• Computational Intelligence/Learning
• Fuzzy modeling/Intelligent data analysis
• Fuzzy database mining and financial forecasting
• Pattern recognition/Image processing
• Human-centric interfaces/Visualization
• Neuro-fuzzy systems/Evolutionary optimization & Adaptive systems/Uncertainty management
• Control/Robotics/Computer vision
• Bioinformatics
• Software engineering & Intelligent agents
• Applications/Computational experiments/Case studies
• Biomedical applications
• Hybrid architectures
• Analysis of structures under uncertainty
• Constraints/Soft constraints
• Decision making under uncertainty
• Learning, adaptive, and evolvable fuzzy systems

Important dates:

• Special session proposals: March 15, 2017
• Submission of papers: March 31, 2017 deadline extension April 30, 2017
• Final papers due: June 11, 2017
• Conference: 16 - 18 October, 2017