[alife] 2nd CFP: WILF 2007 - Portofino Vetta (Italy) July 7-10, 2007

[Francesco Masulli]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                                       WILF 2007
7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications
Hotel Portofino Kulm - Portofino Vetta, Ruta di Camogli (Genova), Italy
                                      July  7-10, 2007

             Conference Website: http://wilf2007.disi.unige.it


WILF 2007 covers all topics in theoretical, experimental and applied
fuzzy techniques and systems   and is aimed to  bring together researchers
and developers from both academia and industry to report on the latest
scientific and theoretical advances, to discuss and debate major issues
and to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems.

WILF 2007 aims to stress the role and the synergies of  Fuzzy Sets and
Systems and the other  approaches of Natural Computing (that ranges  from
Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Sets, Support Vector
Machines to Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization,
Molecular Computing, Quantum Computing, and so on), in order to obtain a
better understanding of  computing going on in Nature as well as develop
powerful computing systems inspired by Nature for solving  complex problems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   1. General techniques and algorithms: Fuzzy Sets; Rough Sets;
Possibility Theory; Fuzzy Logic; Fuzzy Systems; Neuro-Fuzzy Systems;
Representation of Vague and Imprecise Knowledge; Fuzzy Evolutionary
Algorithms; Fuzzy Pattern Recognition; Fuzzy Data Fusion.
   2. Applications: Bioinformatics; Broadcasting; Control;
Communications; Information Retrieval;  Intelligent Resource Management;
Knowledge Management; Medical; Opto-mechatronics; Remote Sensing; Robotics;
Semantic Web; Speech Analysis; Television; Telepresence; Virtual Reality.
   3. Implementations: Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems;
Architectures and VLSI Hardware; Programmable Processors; Commercial
 Software.

Prof. Ronald Yager of Iona College, New York, USA, will deliver an  invited
talk on "Retranslation and other Aspects of Computing with Words"

The scientific program will include, besides some invited talks,
contributed papers that will be presented in plenary oral or poster sessions.
Four  special sessions on   "Bioinformatics and
Biostatistics",   "Cross-Language Information Processing",  "Intuitionistic
Fuzzy Sets", and "Soft Computing in Image Processing" are  planned.

Proceedings of WILF 2007 will published by Springer as a volume of  Lecture
Notes in Computer Science. A selection of papers will be peer  reviewed for
originality, technical contents and relevance and will be considered for
publication in a special issue of a scientific journal.

Chairs:
Francesco Masulli (University of Genova, Italy)
Sushmita Mitra  (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)
Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)

Scientific Program Committee:
Jim Bezdek (University of West Florida, USA)
Isabelle Bloch (ENST-CNRS, France)
Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy)
Ugur Halici (METU, Ankara, Turkey)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Nik Kasabov (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Etienne Kerre (Ghent University, Belgium)
Erich Peter Klement (J. Kepler University, Linz, Austria)
Sankar Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada)
Germano Resconi (Catholic University of Brescia, Italy)
Michio Sugeno (Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan)
Ronald Yager (Iona College, New York, USA)
(list to be updated)

Steering Commitee:
Andrea Bonarini (Politecnico of Milan, Italy)
Vito Di Gesu'  (University of Palermo, Italy)
Antonio Di Nola (University of Salerno, Italy)
Francesco Masulli (University of Genova, Italy)
Gabriella Pasi (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy)
Alfredo Petrosino (University of Napoli "Parthenope", Italy)

Important Dates:
Special session proposal         Dec 15 2006
Paper submission deadline       Jan 31 2007
Notification of acceptance      Feb 28 2007
Submission of camera-ready    Mar 31 2007
Workshop                                 Jul  7-10 2007


Paper submission:
Manuscripts, prepared according to the Springer LNCS format (see
Instructions for LNCS Authors of "Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes"
downloadable at http://www.springer.com/) may not be longer than 6 pages,
including a cover  sheet stating (1) Paper title, (2) Keyword(s), (3) Authors
names and affiliations, (4) Contact Author's name  and contact details
including telephone/fax numbers and e-mail address, and (5) an Abstract (200
words) must be uploaded in pdf format to
http://wilf2007.disi.unige.it/openconf/openconf-wilf2007/index.php

The papers will be peer-reviewed and the authors will be notified via
email of the results of the review by  Feb 28 2007. Submission implies the
willingness of at least one author per paper to register, attend the
workshop, and present the paper.



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Dr. Francesco Masulli  
Associate Professor of Computer Science                   
DISI - Dept. Computer and Information Sciences
University of Genova
Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova - ITALY
tel. +39 010 353 6604 fax. +39 010 353 6699
email: masulli at disi.unige.it
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