Special Session: Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

Organizers: Yusuke Nojima, Rafael Alcalá, Hisao Ishibuchi, Francisco Herrera

This session has been accepted at the FUZZ-IEEE 2012 conference which will be held as part of the 2012 IEEE WCCI in Brisbane, Australia at June 10-15, 2012.

After almost forty years of development, fuzzy systems have demonstrated their superb ability to solve different problems arising in various application domains. In the last two decades, the cooperative framework established made the research interest move to augment fuzzy systems with learning and adaptation capabilities. Since the first pioneer works dated back to 1991, one of the most successful approaches to hybridize fuzzy systems with learning and adaptation methods, apart of course from fuzzy neural networks, has resulted in so-called Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems. These hybrid computational intelligence techniques augment the approximate reasoning method of fuzzy systems with the learning capabilities of evolutionary algorithms.

This topic has attracted considerable attention in the Computation Intelligence community in the last few years. The predominat type of EFS is that focused on FRBSs. However other kinds of EFSs have been developed, with succesful results. In the last few years we observe the increase of published papers in the topic due to the high potential of EFSs. A non exhaustive list of recent journal papers on Evolutionary/Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems (2007-Present) can be found at http://sci2s.ugr.es/gfs/biblio.php, as a part of the Website "Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Taxonomy, Current Research Trends and Prospects" devoted to maintain additional materials to the paper:

F. Herrera, Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Taxonomy, Current Research Trends and Prospects. Evolutionary Intelligence 1 (2008) 27-46 doi: 10.1007/s12065-007-0001-5

Objectives and Scope

The aim of the session is to provide a forum to disseminate and discuss recent and significant research efforts on Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems in order to deal with current challenges on this topic. The session is therefore open to any high quality submission from researchers working at the particular intersection of evolutionary algorithms and fuzzy systems called Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems. Potential authors for this Special Session should present original research and innovative results including (but not limited to) the following topics:

Evolutionary Learning/Tuning of Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems

Evolutionary Selection of Fuzzy Rules

Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems and the Interpretability-Accuracy Trade-off

Multi-objective Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

Evolutionary Fuzzy Neural Networks

Evolutionary Fuzzy Clustering

Swarm Intelligence for Fuzzy Systems Design

Applications of Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

Important Dates

By November 30, 2011, special session organizers should receive the title and authors (including names and complete addresses) for those contributions that will take part in the special session. In any event, any researcher can finally submitt a paper, even if a preliminar title is not provided.

Deadline for Papers Submission, notification of acceptance/rejection, etc., can be found at WCCI 2012 website in the main page: FUZZ-IEEE 2012 conference.

Each paper should follow the formatting guidelines for the conference, which can be consulted here.

To submit your paper, please use the Electronic Submission System for FUZZ-IEEE 2012 to fill in the author and paper information forms and to attach a PDF camera ready version of the paper. When making a submission, the author must choose the "S25. Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems" special session in the main research topic input box (please take care on this selection since there are close titles in other topics).

Additionally, please once the paper has been submitted send an email to the special session organizers enclosing the submitted pdf.

Programme Committee

Rafael Alcalá, University of Granada

Brian Carse, University of the West of England

Oscar Cordón, University of Granada

María José del Jesús, University of Jaén

Pietro Ducange, University of Pisa

Fernando Gomide, University of Campinas

Frank Hoffmann, Technische Universität Dortmund

Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung

Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University

Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta

John B. Theocharis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Organizers and Contact

Yusuke Nojima. Contact information: Email address: nojima[at]cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp Postal address: Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan Telephone number: +81-72-254-9198 Fax Number: +81-72-254-9915

Rafael Alcalá. Contact information: Email address: alcala[at]decsai.ugr.es Postal address: Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain Telephone number: +34-958-246251 Fax Number: +34-958-243317

Hisao Ishibuchi. Contact information: Email address: hisaoi[at]cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp Postal address: Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan Telephone number: +81-72-254-9350 Fax Number: +81-72-254-9915

Francisco Herrera. Contact information: Email address: herrera[at]decsai.ugr.es Postal address: Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain Telephone number: +34-958-240598 Fax Number: +34-958-243317

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