IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

 A Task Force of the IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee
  Chair: Yusuke Nojima (Osaka Prefecture University)
Vice Chair: Rafael Alcalá (University of Granada)

 

Brief Introduction
Aim and Scope
Members
Task Force Activities
Contact Details

After many years of development, fuzzy systems have demonstrated their superb ability to solve different problems arising in various application domains. Since the early 1990s, 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 (EFSs) or Genetic Fuzzy Systems (GFSs). These hybrid computational intelligence techniques augment the approximate reasoning method of fuzzy systems with the learning capabilities of evolutionary computation.

The predominat type of EFS is that focused on FRBSs. This is because the use of evolutionary computation allows the evolution of complex structures (antecedent and rule combinations, real membership function parameters, etc.) within a common process, globally enhancing several abilities of FRBSs, such as the generalization ability for unseen and uncertain data sets, the interpretability for users thus fitting with multiple objectives and the applicability to real-world or very complex problems (high dimensional and large scale problems). However other kinds of EFSs have been developed, with succesful results. For further information on this topic, including a toxonomy on the published approaches, information on the main contributions and current research trends together with a non exhaustive list of recent journal papers on Evolutionary/Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems (2007-Present), a Thematic Website on this topic can be found at the "Genetic Fuzzy Systems Website".

Aim and scope of the Task Force

The aim of the Task Force on EFSs is to promote novel and significant research on Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems in order to deal with current challenges on this topic. The Task Force is therefore devoted to encourage researchers working at the particular application of evolutionary computation to learn fuzzy systems leading to 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 with Fuzzy Systems
  • Applications of Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

Members

  • Chair: Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan (2014-present).
  • Vice Chair: Rafael Alcalá, University of Granada, Spain (2014-present).
  • Other Task Force Members:
    • Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy.
    • Oscar Cordón, University of Granada, Spain.
    • Frank Hoffmann, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.
    • Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy.
    • Fernando Gomide, University of Campinas, Brazil.
    • Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
    • Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada.
    • María José del Jesús, University of Jaén, Spain.
    • John B. Theocharis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Previous Task Force Chairs:    Rafael Alcalá (January 2009 - July 2014), Francisco Herrera (2007-2009), Oscar Cordón (creator of the TF, 2004-2007).

Task Force Activities

This includes special sessions, tutorials, workshops at IEEE CIS conferences such as FUZZ-IEEE, WCCI and SSCI, and journal special issues guested as a part of the activities of the Task Force members.

Recent Events:

  • Special Session - Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems (Session webpage)

    Organizers: Yusuke Nojima, Rafael Alcalá, Hisao Ishibuchi
    This session has been accepted at the FUZZ-IEEE 2017 conference which will be held in Naples, Italy at July 9-12, 2017.

  • Special Session - Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems (Session webpage)

    Organizers: Yusuke Nojima, Rafael Alcalá, Hisao Ishibuchi
    This session has been accepted at the FUZZ-IEEE 2016 conference within the WCCI 2016 which will be held in Vancouver, Canada at July 25-29, 2016.

  • Special Session - Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems (Session webpage: Available CFP at conference website)

    Organizers: Yusuke Nojima, Rafael Alcalá, Hisao Ishibuchi
    This session has been organized at the FUZZ-IEEE 2015 conference which has been held in Istanbul, Turkey at August 2-5, 2015.

  • Special Session - New Directions in Evolutionary Machine Learning

    Organizers: Keiki Takadama, Tim Kovacs, Yusuke Nojima, Will Browne, Masaya Nakata
    This session has been organized at the CEC 2015 conference which has been held in Sendai, Japan at May 25-28, 2015.

Previous Events:

  • Special Session - Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

           Organizers: Rafael Alcalá, Yusuke Nojima, Hisao Ishibuchi, Francisco Herrera
           This session has been organized at the FUZZ-IEEE 2014 conference which has been held in Beijing, China at July 6-11, 2014.

           Organizers: Rafael Alcalá, Yusuke Nojima, Hisao Ishibuchi, Francisco Herrera
           This session was accepted at the FUZZ-IEEE 2013 conference which will be held in Hyderabad, India at July 7-10, 2013.

  • R. Alcalá (July 2013). FUZZ-IEEE 2013 Tutorial: Multi-Objective Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems: An Overview by Problem Objectives Nature and Optimized Components PDF Icon  PDF Icon

The slides of this talk are associated to the FUZZ-IEEE 2013 Tutorial T4(2013 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Hyderabad, India).

  • 2013 IEEE 6th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY FUZZY SYSTEMS - GEFS2013

(Webpage: Webpage of the Workshop, Public CFP: CFP-GEFS2013)

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

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

Organizadores: María José Gacto y Rafael Alcalá
Esta sesión tuvo lugar en el XVI Congreso Español sobre Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy (ESTYLF2012) que se celebró en Valladolid del 1 al 3 de febrero de 2012.

Organizers: Yusuke Nojima, Rafael Alcalá, Hisao Ishibuchi, Francisco Herrera
This session was accepted at the FUZZ-IEEE 2011 conference which was held in Taipei, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2011.

  • R. Alcalá (June 2011). FUZZ-IEEE 2011 Tutorial: Evolutionary Multi-Objective Design of Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems PDF Icon iconZip.png

The slides of this talk are associated to the FUZZ-IEEE 2011 Tutorial T1 (2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Taipei, Taiwan).

  • 2011 IEEE 5th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY FUZZY SYSTEMS - GEFS2011

(Webpage: Webpage of the Workshop, Public CFP: CFP-GEFS2011)

Organized as a part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Paris, France, 11 - 15 April 2011, sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE SSCI 2011)
Symposium Chairs: Rafael Alcalá and Yusuke Nojima
Symposium Publicity Chairs: Jesús Alcalá and Pietro Ducange

  • F. Marcelloni (April 2011). Multi-objective Evolutionary Learning of Fuzzy Rule-based Systems for Regression Problems PDF Icon

The slides of this talk are associated to the GEFS 2011 Plenary Talk from Professor Francesco Marcelloni (5th International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems, Paris, France) which was held within the Symposium Series of Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2011.

  • Special Session - Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

(Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2010-efs/)

Organizers: Yusuke Nojima, Rafael Alcalá, Hisao Ishibuchi, Francisco Herrera
This session was accepted at the FUZZ-IEEE 2010 conference which will be held in Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010.

  • FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY FUZZY SYSTEMS - GEFS2010

(Webpage: www.softcomputing.es/gefs2010, Public CFP: CFP-GEFS2010)

Organized by European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres, Asturias, Spain, 17 - 19 March 2010
General Chairs: Oscar Cordón and Luis Magdalena
Program Chairs: Rafael Alcalá and Yusuke Nojima

  • Workshop: Genetic Fuzzy Systems - Design and Applications

(Workshop webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/isda09-gfs/)

Organizers: Rafael Alcalá, Pietro Ducange, Yusuke Nojima
This Workshop was organized at the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'09) which was held in Pisa, Italy, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2009.

Organizers: Yusuke Nojima, Rafael Alcalá, Hisao Ishibuchi, Francisco Herrera
This session was organized at the FUZZ-IEEE 2009 conference which was held in Jeju Island, Korea, 20-24 August 2009.

H. Ishibuchi and R. Alcalá (August 2009). Evolutionary Multi-Objective Design of Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems PDF Icon iconZip.png

  • The slides of this talk are associated to the FUZZ-IEEE 2009 Tutorial T1 (2009 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, ICC Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea).

  • Special Session - New Advances on Genetic Fuzzy Systems (Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/ifsa09-gfs/)

    Organizers: Rafael Alcalá, Yusuke Nojima
    This session was organized at the IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009 conference which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, 20-24 July 2009.

  • Special Session on Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Novel Approaches (Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/hais08-gfs/)

    Organizers: Rafael Alcalá, Yusuke Nojima
    This session was organized at the HAIS 2008 conference which was held in Burgos, Spain, 24-26 September 2008.

Contact Details

Yusuke Nojima. Contact information:

Email address: nojima@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@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

 

(This Web page was created and is maintained by Rafael Alcalá)