Task Force on Fuzzy Systems Software (Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society)

The Task Force on Fuzzy Systems Software (TF-FSS) is a Task Force of the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee (FSTC) which belongs to the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

 

Aim and Scope

The main goal of this Task Force is to promote the research, development, education, and understanding of Fuzzy Systems Software, regarding both theory and applications. To do so, it sets the focus on dissemination of available Fuzzy Systems Software for both industry and academy. Moreover, it offers an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to identify new promising research directions in this area.

Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Applications
  • Data Mining and Evolutionary Knowledge Extraction
  • Data Preprocessing
  • Data Science, Big Data, and High Performance Computing (Map-Reduce, GPGPU, Quantum
  • Educational Software
  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Modeling, Control, and Optimization
  • Interoperability
  • Knowledge Extraction and Linguistic/Graphical Representation
  • Languages for Soft Computing Software
  • Professional Software
  • Research Software
  • Software Engineering
  • System Validation, Verification, and Exploratory Analysis
  • Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
  • Visualization of Results
  • Computing, etc.)

 

Task Force Members

Chair: José Manuel Soto Hidalgo (University of Granada, Spain)

Dr. Jose M. Soto-Hidalgo is Chair of this Task Force since 2020 and member from 2016. He received the MS and PhD degrees, both in Computer Science, from the University of Granada, Spain, in 2004 and 2014 respectively. From 2007 to 2020, he was member as an Associate Professor of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the University of Córdoba (UCO), Spain. Now, since 2020, he is member of the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology (ATC) at the University of Granada (UGR) where he is an Associate Professor. His current research interests include but are not limited to: Soft Computing applied to Image Processing, Fuzzy Modeling, Knowledge Extraction and Representation, Internet of Things, Data Science and development of free software and data sensors management tools. He has authored more than 60 papers in international journals, book chapters and conferences. He is also member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) since 2018.

Vice Chair: Jesús Alcalá-Fdez (University of Granada, Spain)

Dr. Jesús Alcalá-Fdez is the Vice-chair of this Task Force since 2018. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, where he is a member of the Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems Research Group and member of the DaSCI Andalusian Research Institute. He has published over 80 papers in international journals, book chapters, and conferences. His research interests include data mining, knowledge extraction based on evolutionary algorithms, association rules, fuzzy rule-based systems, genetic fuzzy systems, multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, and data mining software. He was an Associate Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and he is a member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Fuzzy Systems.

Other Task Force Members:

  • Alexander Gegov (United Kingdom)
  • Giovanni Acampora (Italy)
  • José M. Alonso (Spain)
  • Plamen Angelov (United Kingdom)
  • Christian Borgelt (Germany)
  • Chang-Shing Lee (Taiwan)
  • Chin Teng Lin (Taiwan)
  • Detlef Nauck (United Kingdom)
  • Yusuke Nojima (Japan)
  • Corrado Mencar (Italy)
  • Amir Pourabdollah (United Kingdom)
  • Christian Wagner (United Kingdom)

 

Task Force Activities

New Events:

Past Events:

  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2023-ssc/)
    • Organizers: Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo, Jesús Alcalá-Fdez, Jose M. Alonso
      This session was held at the FUZZ-IEEE 2023 conference which was held in Songdo Incheon, Korea at August 13-17, 2023.
    • Accepted Papers:
      • G. Acampora, A. Vitiello. An IEEE Std 1855 Driver for Synthetizing Quantum Fuzzy Inference Engines. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2023), Songdo Incheon (Korea), 13-17 August, 2023.
      • A. Bechini, M. Daole, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni, A. Renda. An Application for Federated Learning of XAI Models in Edge Computing Environments. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2023), Songdo Incheon (Korea), 13-17 August, 2023.
      • X. Wang, M. Li, Ch. Chen, J.M. Garibaldi. The Design and Implementation of a Constrained Interval Type-2 Fuzzy System for Credit Card Fraud Detection. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2023), Songdo Incheon (Korea), 13-17 August, 2023.
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2022-ssc/)
    • Organizers: Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo, Jesús Alcalá-Fdez, Jose M. Alonso
      This session was held at the FUZZ-IEEE 2022 conference which will be held as part of the 2022 IEEE WCCI in Padua, Italy at July 18-23, 2022.
    • Accepted Papers:
      • Bhavesh Pandya, Amir Pourabdollah, Ahmad Lotfi, Giovanni GA Acampora. An Integrated Fuzzy Logic System under Microsoft Azure using Simpful. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2022), Padua (Italy), 18-23 July, 2022.
      • Emil Rijcken, Uzay Kaymak, Floortje Scheepers, Pablo Mosteiro, Kalliopi Zervanou, Marco Spruit. FuzzyTM: a Software Package for Fuzzy Topic Modeling. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2022), Padua (Italy), 18-23 July, 2022.
      • Giovanni GA Acampora, Ferdinando di martino, Gennaro Alessio Robertazzi, Autilia Vitiello. A Web Application for running Quantum-enhanced Support Vector Machine. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2022), Padua (Italy), 18-23 July, 2022.
      • Gregorio Corpas Prieto, Juan Carlos Gámez-Granados, Fernando León García, José Manuel Palomares Muñóz, Joaquín Olivares Bueno, Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo. A Preliminary Fuzzy Markup Language based Approach for the Queue Buffer Size Optimization in Fog Nodes for Stream Processing. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2022), Padua (Italy), 18-23 July, 2022.
      • Oliver U Lenz, Chris Cornelis, Daniel Peralta. Fuzzy-rough-learn 0.2: a Python library for fuzzy rough set algorithms and oneclass classification. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2022), Padua (Italy), 18-23 July, 2022.
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2021-ssc/)
    • Organizers: Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo, Jesús Alcalá-Fdez, Jose M. Alonso
      This session was held at the FUZZ-IEEE 2021 conference which will be held in Luxembourg at July 11-14, 2021.
    • Accepted Papers:
      • Jesús M. Almendros-Jiménez, Antonio Becerra-Terón, Ginés Moreno and José A. Riaza. Flexible Aggregation in FSA-SPARQL. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2021), Luxembourg, 11-14 July, pp. 1-7, 2021.
      • Chao Chen, Yu Zhao, Christian Wagner, Direnc Pekaslan, and Jonathan M. Garibaldi. An Extension of the FuzzyR Toolbox for Non-Singleton Fuzzy Logic Systems. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2021), Luxembourg, 11-14 July, pp. 1-6, 2021.
      • Adam Grabowski. Fuzzy Implications in the Mizar System. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2021), Luxembourg, 11-14 July, pp. 1-6, 2021.
      • Bhavesh Pandya, Amir Pourabdollah, Ahmad Lotfi and Giovanni Acampora. Developing a cloud-based service-oriented architecture for fuzzy logic systems. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2021), Luxembourg, 11-14 July, pp. 1-8, 2021.
      • Tajul Rosli Razak, Chao Chen, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Christian Wagner. Designing the Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems Via FuzzyR Toolbox. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2021), Luxembourg, 11-14 July, pp. 1-6, 2021.
      • Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Lozano, David Guijo-Rubio, Pedro Antonio Gutierrez, Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo, Juan Carlos Gamez-Granados. Enhancing The ORCA Framework With A New Fuzzy Rule Base System Implementation Compatible With The JFML Library. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2021), Luxembourg, 11-14 July, pp. 1-6, 2021.
      • Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Lozano, Juan Carlos Gamez-Granados, Oresti Banos, Jesus Alcala-Fdez, Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo. An approach to bridge the gap between ubiquitous embedded devices and JFML: A new module for Internet of Things. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2021), Luxembourg, 11-14 July, pp. 1-6, 2021.
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2020-ssc/)
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (Session webpage: https://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2019-ssc/)
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (Session webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2018-ssc/)
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2017-ssc/)
  • Tutorial - Software for Soft Computing (http://www.fuzzieee2017.org/tutorials.html)
  • Lecture - Fuzzy Systems Software (July 20, 2017)
    • Speaker: Jose M. Alonso
      This lecture was given as part of the III European Summer School on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (SFLA 2017), which was held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, at July 17-21, 2017.
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2016-ssc/)
    • Organizers: Jesús Alcalá-Fdez and Jose M. Alonso
      This session was held at the FUZZ-IEEE 2016 conference which was held as part of the 2016 IEEE WCCI in Vancouver, Canada, at July 25-29, 2016.
  • Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Software (Special Issue webpage: http://sci2s.ugr.es/ieeecimcisw2016/)

    Guest Editors: J. Alcalá-Fdez, Jose M. Alonso, and O. Cordón
    This special issue has been published at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine:

    • J. Alcalá-Fdez, J.M. Alonso and O. Cordón. Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Software. IEEE Computational Intelligence magazine 11:2 (2016) 13-14. Doi: 10.1109/MCI.2016.2532264.
    • J.M. Soto-Hidalgo, P.M. Martinez-Jimenez, J. Chamorro-Martinez, D. Sanchez. JFCS: A Color Modeling Java Software Based on Fuzzy Color Spaces. IEEE Computational Intelligence magazine 11:2 (2016) 16-28. Doi: 10.1109/MCI.2016.2532265
    • D. Apostolou, K. Zachos, N. Maiden, N. Agell, G. Sanchez-Hernandez, M. Taramigkou, K. Star, M. Wippoo. Facilitating Creativity in Collaborative Work with Computational Intelligence Software. IEEE Computational Intelligence magazine 11:2 (2016) 29-40. Doi: 10.1109/MCI.2016.2532266
    • A.R. Masegosa, A.M. Martinez, H. Borchani. Probabilistic Graphical Models on Multi-Core CPUs Using Java 8. IEEE Computational Intelligence magazine 11:2 (2016) 41-54. Doi: 10.1109/MCI.2016.2532267

     

  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (http://sci2s.ugr.es/fuzzieee2012-ssc/)
    • Organizers: Jesús Alcalá-Fdez and Jose M. Alonso
      This session was organized at the FUZZ-IEEE 2012 conference which was held as part of the 2012 IEEE WCCI in Brisbane, Australia at June 10-15, 2012.
  • Special Session - Software for Soft Computing (FUZZ-IEEE 2007, Special Session 15)
    • Organizer: Detlef Nauck
      This session was organized as part of the FUZZ-IEEE 2007 conference in London, UK at July 23-26, 2007.

 

Related Survey Papers

In the following we maintain a list with papers aimed at reviewing particular software types or important application domains:

 

Thematic Website on FSS

A thematic website on Fuzzy Systems Software, which includes a thorough review (regarding both publications and links to available software), is online at http://sci2s.ugr.es/fss

Fuzzy Systems Software: Taxonomy, Current Research Trends and Prospects

 

JFML library

A Java Library for the IEEE Standard for Fuzzy Markup Language (IEEE Std 1855-2016) is online at http://www.uco.es/JFML/. Moreover, a wrapper for Python is also available (Py4JFML).

Fuzzy Systems Software: Taxonomy, Current Research Trends and Prospects

 

Other IEEE-CIS Task Forces

 

Contact Details

Dr. Jose M. Soto-Hidalgo
Department of Computer Architecture and Technology (ATC), University of Granada (UGR)
E-18071 Granada, Andalucía, Spain
Telephone number: +34-948-240000 ext. 20632
Fax Number: +34-958-248993
E-mail: jmsoto[at]ugr.es

Dr. Jesús Alcalá-Fdez
DaSCI Andalusian Research Institute, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI), University of Granada (UGR)
E-18071 Granada, Andalucía, Spain
Telephone number: +34-958-240429
Fax Number: +34-958-243317
E-mail: jalcala[at]decsai.ugr.es

 

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee              Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems - University of Granada 

 

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(This Web page was created and maintained by J. Alcalá-Fdez y J.M. Soto-Hidalgo)