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NAFIPS-FLINT 2002 New Orleans, LA June 27-29, 2002

PROGRAM:

2002 conference of NAFIPS (the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society http://morden.csee.usf.edu/Nafipsf/ ). Berkeley's Initiative in Soft Computing's Special Interest Group on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (FLINT: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nikraves/bisc/sig/internet/ ) will hold its annual workshop as part of NAFIPS 2002. The conference will feature plenary sessions by Jim Bezdek, Vince Robinson, and Lotfi Zadeh. The conference program will allow carefully focused invited sessions.

Ordinary contributed papers will be reviewed based on content. Relevant topics may include, but are not limited to:

Fuzzy systems / sets / mathematics / control / databases / theory Soft computing / neural and fuzzy neural networks /genetic algorithms Learning systems / data mining / robotics / image processing / pattern recognition Applications of soft computing / successful applications and case studies

A Special Track on Fuzzy Sets and the Internet is being organized by Dr. Ron Yager and submissions for this track are especially invited. This track is following in the same spirit as the recent FLINT meeting in Berkeley

Those submitting a paper which they want included in this special track please indicate with your submission. Those interested in organizing special sessions within this track please contact Ron Yager.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Papers will be reviewed on the basis of a 1 - 2 page extended abstract. The extended deadline for receipt of the abstract is March 25, 2002. Electronic submission is highly encouraged. Instructions for electronic submission are given on the conference website. For authors who can not submit electronically, please send three copies of the abstracts to:

Olfa Nasraoui Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 206 Engineering Science Bldg. The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152-3180