Special Issue on Contribution of Fuzziness and Uncertainty to Modern Artificial Intelligence

Recently, the 40 years of fuzzy sets have expired. The first officially published paper on fuzzy set theory appeared in 1965. Since then, an enormous amount of literature spread out from this seminal paper of Lotfi Zadeh, as witnessed by the foundation of the journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems in 1978. As a consequence it was felt important to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the paper “Fuzzy Sets”.

On the other hand, the 31st August 1955 , J. McCarthy ( Dartmouth College , New Hampshire ), M. L. Minsky ( Harvard University ), N. Rochester (I.B.M. Corporation) and C.E. Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories) proposed a meeting during the summer of 1956 to a group of researchers in order to provide ideas on each aspect of learning and each feature of intelligence capable of being simulated on machines. During the encounter, now known as the Dartmouth Conference, the term Artificial Intelligence was coined. In 2006, the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth Conference will be celebrated worldwide.

Fuzziness and Uncertainty is perhaps the most promising advancement to come along in the Artifical Intelligence community in recent history. The FSS special issue on “Contribution of Fuzziness and Uncertainty to Modern Artificial Intelligence” is intended to provide a forum for researchers to report recent advances and exchange knowledge in the field of Fuzzy Sets and Systems in close relation to the state-of-the-art of Artificial Intelligence in its 50th anniversary. Papers with a clear orientation to explaining the past, current and future influence of Fuzziness and Uncertainty in practical problems of Perception and Intelligence are especially welcome.

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission deadline: 1st December 2006
• Decision Notification: 31 March 2007
• Camera-Ready Submission: 31 May 2007

Method of Review:

Please send your manuscript to Antonio Fernández-Caballero by e-mail ( caballer@dsi.uclm.es ).

The Guest Editors will first evaluate all manuscripts. Those manuscripts that meet the minimum criteria are passed on for peer review by two external experts. The method of review in this special issue will employ single blind review, where the referee remains anonymous throughout the process. The Guest Editors board is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article, based on the recommendations of the reviewers.

Guest Editors:

• Enric Trillas, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Lluis Godó, Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial (IIIA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
• José Luis Verdegay, Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Granada
• Vicenç Torra, Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial (IIIA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
• Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos and Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete (I3A), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha ( caballer@dsi.uclm.es )

Related Link:

50 Years of the Artificial Intelligence: Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence, CMPI-2006