Special Sessions

Instructions for special sessions proposals: If you would like to organize a special session at FLINS 2008 , please contact flins2008 at mat.ucm.es as soon as possible.

Proposals for Special Sessions should be submitted by December 15, 2007.

Each proposal should give a half page description of the session title, topic and four invited authors who have agreed. In general, each special session has four to six papers. Papers submitted to special sessions will go through the normal reviewing process.

All papers being accepted for special sessions will be included in the proceedings.

Authors intending to present a papers at any of the FLINS special session listed below should submit their paper directly to the organizers of the special session.  An additional copy can be submitted to the FLINS organising committee by means of the automatic submission system,  http://www.mat.ucm.es/congresos/flins2008/ , specifying in the Comments to Chair box the special session the paper is being sent to.

At this moment, the following FLINS 2008 special sessions have been proposed or approved (please note that paper submission deadline has been extended to January 31, 2008):

• "Computational Intelligence Systems for Society and Policy Support", organized by Prof. D. Ruan.
• "Approaches for Information Fusion and its Application to Decision-Making", organized by Profs. J. Liu and L. Martinez.
• "Computing with Words and Decision Making", organized by Profs. F. Herrera and E. Herrera-Viedma.
• "Data Mining: Models, Techniques and Applications", organized by Profs. T. Li and G. Wets.
• "Fuzzy Decision Making Issues: Preference Modelling and Aggregation", organized by Profs. S. Alonso and F. Chiclana.
• "Fuzzy Decision-Making: Theory and Applications", organized by Prof. C. Kahraman.
• "Intelligent Decision, Emergency Mangement and Warning Systems ", organized by Profs. J. Lu and G. Zhang.
• "Intelligent Control", organized by Prof. M. Santos.
• "Logic-Based Resoning and Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Approaches, Algorithms and Applications", organized by Profs. Y. Xu and J. Liu.
• "Multicriteria Decision Making", organized by Prof. B. Vitoriano
• "New frontiers in data analysis methods for nuclear fusion: the transition from JET to ITER", organized by Profs. J. Vega and A. Murari.
• "Preference Modelling on the Web", organized by Profs. E. Herrera-Viedma. and A.G Lopez-Herrera.
• "Recent Advances in Atanassov's Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets", organized by Prof. E. Barrenechea and E. Szmidt.
• "Soft Computing in Image Processing: Recent Advances", organized by Prof. M. Nachtegael
• "Soft Computing Methods for Diagnosis and Prognosis", organized by Profs. P. Baraldi and E. Zio.
• "Theory and Applications of Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets", organized by Prof. H. Bustince and P. Melo-Pinto