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The EUSFLAT Working Group AGOP (Aggregation Operators – Theory and Applications) is a way to establish and intensify international cooperation between researchers in the area of development of aggregation and fusion techniques and their applications in several fields.

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Establishing and intensifying international cooperation between researchers active in the fields of fuzzy logic and decision theory with an emphasis on applications in economics and social sciences. In the latter fields human perceptions play a very important role and the cross-fertilizations with the former fields has a huge potential.

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Intelligent control systems encompass different techniques such as expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc. However, fuzzy logic has proven to be the most widely used technique in industrial applications. The keys to this are its ability to represent the knowledge and experience of control/modelling experts and its ease of implementation. Another factor contributing to the deployment of fuzzy applications in industry is the increasing computational power of embedded systems. Thus, fuzzy inference systems are present at all levels of the automation pyramid and appear as a powerful tool for modelling, identifying, and controlling complex plants.

The general objectives of the working group are:

• Promote research on the modelling and/or control of dynamic systems, using fuzzy inference systems (e.g. by organising special sessions and round tables at international conferences, special issues in international journals and edited books).
• To promote collaboration between researchers and other professionals in the field of intelligent systems who are interested in modelling and/or control using fuzzy logic, (by promoting conferences, workshops, special sessions, talks, between different research groups, by organising meetings and webinars, and by increasing visibility outside the fuzzy community with interdisciplinary meetings).

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The field of Genetic Fuzzy Systems (GFS) has now reached a stage of maturity after the earliest papers were published sixteen years ago. The fusion of a population-based, robust search algorithm (the genetic algorithm, GA) with a representation that offers linguistic interpretability (fuzzy systems) provides a powerful paradigm for computational intelligence research. Although the maturity of the GFS field means it is now being applied to an ever growing number of real-world applications, there are many basic issues yet to be resolved and there is an active and vibrant worldwide community of researchers working on these issues.
The general goals of the working group are:

• to encourage research on GFS (e.g. by organization of special sessions and round tables in international conferences, edition of special issues in international journals and edited books);
• to stimulate collaboration on GFS (by promoting the organization of joint activities, such as, workshops, special sessions, talks, among different research groups, by organizing virtual meetings and seminars, and by improving visibility outside the fuzzy community with interdisciplinary gatherings).

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The EUSFLAT Working Group on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets: Theory, Applications and Related Topics (IFSTART) is focusing on the research on foundations of the intuitionistic fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy logic, their extensions and relevant software implementation.

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Homepage of working group

http://ifigenia.org/wiki/IFSTART

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Topics in the fields of machine learning and data mining have attracted considerable attention within the fuzzy set community in recent years. There are several motivations for combining tools and techniques from fuzzy set theory with learning and data mining methods, notably the following: Firstly, learning and adaptivity have become important aspects in fuzzy systems design, where data-driven approaches can complement knowledge-based methods in a reasonable way. Secondly, recent research has shown that fuzzy set theory can contribute to machine learning and data mining in a substantial way, e.g., in dealing with uncertainty in model induction or extracting vague patterns and relationships from data.

The general goal of the working group is to promote research in the field of fuzzy machine learning and data mining. Moreover, the working group shall provide a forum for discussions on this topic and a repository for resources on fuzzy data mining, including, e.g., software and benchmark data sets.

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The goal of the EUSFLAT Working Group on Mathematical Fuzzy Logic is to conduct and promote research in Mathematical Fuzzy Logic understood as a bunch of formal systems of non-classical logics as established in the last decade after Hájek’s monograph.

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Homepage of working group:

http://www.mathfuzzlog.org/

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The aim of the EUSFLAT Working Group on Philosophical Foundations is to motivate philosophers, educators,and scientists, to approach the historical roots of Soft Computing, as well as its results in real applications. To this end, this working group consists in:

• A Forum for the analysis of the hiostory, backgrounds and original methodologies of Soft Computing and, in particular, of Fuzzy Logic and Computing with Words/Meanings, where new points of view could be openly and quickly discussed, and from which some scientific work/publications could follow up.
• Efforts to create an adequate environment to interest educators of all levels to approach Fuzzy Logic, as a general way of lengthening their horizons of knowledge.
• The organization of Special Sessions in EuSFLaT Conferences and elsewhere, to spread the knowledge of Soft Computing, its founding principles and its history to new areas of research, and to assert new applications of its methods.
• The establishing of the Archives of History and Philosophy of Soft Computing, to keep track of such advancements.

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Soft computing extends the facilities and effectiveness of database and information retrieval systems in order to make them better accessible and to cope with imperfections in information.

The goal of this working group is to stimulate and support basic and applied research on soft computing in database management and information retrieval. This is accomplished by organizing workshops, discussion forums and other activities aimed at advancing and promoting the research in this area.

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Homepage of working group

http://scdmir.ugent.be/

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The EUSFLAT Working Group on Soft Computing in Image Processing is a way to establish and intensify international cooperation between researchers in the area of Soft Computing in Image Processing.

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Homepage of working group

http://graphicwg.irafm.osu.cz/index.php/Main_Page/