The 8th International FLINS Conference on

Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control

Madrid, Spain

September 21-24, 2008

"Bridging the gap between machine intelligence and real complex systems"

http://www.mat.ucm.es/congresos/flins2008

flins2008 at mat.ucm.es

Highlighted features:

• Conference included in the ISI proceedings.
• Plenary speakers: P. Bonissone (USA), W. Pedrycz (Canada), E. Trillas (Spain), and L.A. Zadeh (USA).
• All accepted papers in the book "Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control" will be published by World Scientific Publisher.
• Special issue of International Journal of General Systems (Taylor & Francis, guest-editors: J. Montero and D. Ruan) devoted to "Soft Information Analysis". Paper submission to guest-editors: February 1, 2009; notification of review results: April 1, 2009; submission of revised papers: June 1, 2009; final package to the publisher: July 1, 2009.
• Special issue of Information Sciences (Elsevier, guest-editors: J. Montero and D. Ruan) devoted to "Modelling Uncertainty in Optimization Problems". Please submit paper via Journal web page and do not forget to select “Spec.Iss.: Modelling Uncertainty” as the “Article Type” in the submission process. Paper submission: February 1, 2009; notification of review results: April 1, 2009; submission of revised papers: June 1, 2009; final package to the publisher: July 1, 2009.
• Special issue of International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management (Inderscience, guest-editors: D. Ruan and J. Vega).
• Special issue of Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (Blackwell Publishing, guest-editor: C. Kahraman) devoted to "Computational Intelligence and Fuzzy Decision-Making". Paper submission to guest editor: December 15, 2008; notification of first review results: March 1, 2009; submission of revised papers: April 1; notification of last reviewing: May 15, 2009; submission of final versions: June 15, 2009; final package to the publisher: July 1, 2009. Submission details in CI Call for Papers.
• Special issue of Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier, guest-editors: J. Lu, D. Ruan and G. Zhang) devoted to "Intelligent Computing in Decision Making and Warning Systems". Paper submission to guest-editors: December 15, 2008; notification of review results: February 15, 2009; submission of revised papers: April 15, 2009; final package to the publisher: May 15, 2009. Submission details in KBS Call for Papers.
• Special issue of Mathware and Soft Computing (EUSFLAT Society, guest-editors: T. Calvo, J. Montero and A. Salvador). Please submit paper via Journal web page and do not forget to specify it is for the "FLINS Special Issue" in the submission process. Paper submission: February 1, 2009; notification of review results: April 1, 2009; submission of revised papers: June 1, 2009; final package to the publisher: July 1, 2009.
• Special issue of Top (Springer, guest-editors: B. Vitoriano and X. Gandibleux) devoted to "Multicriteria Decision Making". Paper submission via journal web page (do not forget to specify it is for the FLINS Special Issue): December 31, 2008; notification of first review results: March 15, 2009; submission of revised papers: May 31; notification of last reviewing: July 31, 2009; submission of final versions: September 15, 2009; final package to the publisher: October 15, 2009. Submission details in TOP Call for Papers.
• Special issue of Journal of Universal Computer Sciences (CSA, guest-editors: L. Martínez and J. Liu) devoted to "Information Fusion and Logic-based Reasoning Approaches for Decision Making Under Uncertainty". Paper submission to guest-editors: December 15, 2008; notification of first review results: March 15, 2009; submission of revised papers: May 15; notification of last reviewing: July 15, 2009; submission of final versions: August 15, 2009; final package to the publisher: September 15, 2009. Submission details in JUCS Call for Papers.
• Special issue of Soft Computing Journal (Springer, guest-editors: E. Herrera-Viedma and A.G. López-Herrera) devoted to "Soft Computing on the Web".
• Special issue of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making (Springer, guest-editors: F. Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma, S. Alonso and F. Chiclana) devoted to "Computing with Words and Decision Making".
• The new International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems dedicated to FLINS conferences (Atlantis Press, guest-editors: L. Martinez and J. Montero). Participation in this special issue is by direct invitation from guest-editors.
• Best posters contest and awards.

Contact address:

Prof. Javier Montero, FLINS 2008 Organizing Chair

Faculty of Mathematics, Complutense University, Madrid 28040 (Spain)

Tel.: +34 91 394 4522

Fax.: +34 91 394 4607

E-mail: flins2008 at mat.ucm.es

Web site: http://www.mat.ucm.es/congresos/flins2008