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Fuzzy Systems TC

Name

This organization is known as the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee (FSTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the FSTC is to promote the research, development, education, and understanding of fuzzy systems technology, including the creation of fuzzy systems theory and models as well as their applications.

Membership

The FSTC is open by invitation to all members of the CIS, as well as to other technical professionals as affiliates. There are two grades of members: active and affiliate. Active members are invited by the Chair of the FSTC to serve on the FSTC, and have agreed to serve on the FSTC and to regularly participate in FSTC activities and meetings; they are eligible to vote on matters before the committee. Affiliates are non-appointed CIS or non-CIS members who have an interest in FSTC activities and meetings, but will not be eligible to vote on matters before the committee.

Officers

The FSTC Chair shall be appointed by the President of the CIS based on the recommendations from the Vice President-Technical Activities (VP-TA) and Committee, for a one-year term and up to a maximum of three terms. Each November, the FSTC in consultation with VP-TA shall make recommendation to the President for appointment as FSTC Chair for the following year.

Funding

There is no membership fee for joining the FSTC. Funding for the committee shall be provided by the CIS in the annual budget request. Once approved by the CIS ExCom and AdCom, funds will be available to support the FSTC activities. The Chair shall be responsible for the appropriate use of the approved funds with supporting documentation.

Activities

The FSTC shall engage in various activities in order to promote fuzzy systems as a viable technology, including but not limited to the following: recommend candidates to the Awards Committee for the CIS Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems area and the Technical Field Award, nominate papers for Best Paper Awards to the Awards Committee from papers published in the Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, propose special sessions to the CIS-sponsored conference organizers, participate in paper reviews and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences and publications, promote IEEE Senior Members and Fellows program, collaborate on production of tutorials, and book series with the Multimedia Committee, maintain the Committee’s website, facilitate local chapters activities and organize specialized workshops or meetings. The FSTC will assist in soliciting conference proposals and actively work with the organizers of CISsponsored conferences to ensure their technical excellence.

Meetings

Meetings will be called by the Chair one or two times a year, usually before the CIS AdCom meetings and in conjunction with the annual International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, or as requested by the FSTC members. Sufficient advance notice of the meetings will be given to the members, as well as all other interested parties. The Chair shall prepare an agenda before the meeting, and shall prepare minutes for distribution after the meeting.

Amendments

This Charter becomes official after at least 2/3 members present at the Committee Meeting approves it. Subsequent changes and amendments also require 2/3 majority vote.

Members

Hisao Ishibuchi, Chair (2008) Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Osaka Prefecture University 1-1 Gakuen-cho Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan phone: (+81 72) 254 9350 fax: (+81 72) 254 9915 email: hisaoi .a_t. ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp www: www.ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~hisaoi/ci_lab_e/personal/ishibuchi

Robert I. John, Vice Chair (2008) Faculty of Computing Sciences & Engineering De Montfort University Room James Went 9.10 Leicester LE1 9BH, UK phone: (+44 116) 207 8491 fax: (+44 116) 254 1891 email: rij .a_t. dmu.ac.uk www: www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~rij

Dimitar P. Filev, Vice Chair (2008) Senior Technical Leader, Intelligent Control & Information Systems Ford Research & Advanced Engineering 2101 Village Road, MD #1437 Dearborn, MI 48121, USA phone: (313) 248-1652 fax: (313) 337-2408 email: dfilev .a_t. ford.com

Piero P. Bonissone General Electric Global Research Building K1- Room 5C32A, One Research Rd. Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA phone: (+1 518) 387 5155 fax: (+1 518) 387 6845 email: bonissone .a_t. crd.ge.com www: www.rpi.edu/~bonisp

Oscar Castillo Department of Computer Science Tijuana Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4207 Chula Vista, CA 91909, Mexico phone: (+52 664) 623 6318 fax: (+52 664) 623 6318 email: ocastillo .a_t. tectijuana.mx

Scott Dick University of Alberta Canada

Neil H. Eklund Industrial Artificial Intelligence Laboratory General Electric Global Research One Research Circle, K1-1C30 Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA phone: 518 387 5499 fax: 518 387 6104 email: eklund .a_t. research.ge.com

Dimitar P. Filev Senior Technical Leader, Intelligent Control & Information Systems Ford Research & Advanced Engineering 2101 Village Road, MD #1437 Dearborn, MI 48121, USA phone: (313) 248-1652 fax: (313) 337-2408 email: dfilev .a_t. ford.com

James M. Keller Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Missouri-Columbia 217 Engineering Building West Columbia, MO 65211-2060, USA phone: (+1 573) 882 7339 fax: (+1 573) 882 0397 email: KellerJ .a_t. missouri.edu www: www.missouri.edu/~kellerj

Vladik Kreinovich Department of Computer Science University of Texas at El Paso 500 W. University El Paso, TX 79968, USA phone: (+1 915) 747 6951 fax: (+1 915) 747 5030 email: vladik .a_t. cs.utep.edu www: www.cs.utep.edu/vladik

Jerry Mendel Department of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Ave Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564, USA phone: (+1 213) 740 4445 fax: (+1 213) 740 4651 email: mendel .a_t. sipi.usc.edu www: sipi.usc.edu/~mendel

Witold Pedrycz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G6, Canada phone: (+1 780) 492 3333 fax: (+1 780) 492 1811 email: pedrycz .a_t. ee.ualberta.ca www: www.ece.ualberta.ca/~pedrycz

Hongwei Wu School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 210 Technology Circle, PARB A-22 Savannah, GA 31407, USA phone: +1-912-965-2386 fax: +1-912-966-7928 email: hongwei.wu .a_t. gatech.edu www: www.gtsav.gatech.edu/people/hongwei.wu

Lotfi A. Zadeh Computer Science Division University of California Berkeley, CA 94720, USA phone: (+1 510) 642 4959 fax: (+1 510) 642 1712 email: zadeh .a_t. cs.berkeley.edu www: www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh

Plamen Angelov Department of Communication Systems Lancaster University South Drive Lancaster LA1 4WA, UK phone: +44 (1524) 5-10391 fax: +44 (1524) 510489 email: p.angelov .a_t. lancaster.ac.uk

Robert Babuska Department of Electrical Engineering Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4, P.O. Box 5031 Delft 2600 GA, The Netherlands

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier UPMC - LIP6 104 avenue du President Kennedy Paris 75016, France phone: (+33 1) 4427 7003 fax: (+33 1) 4427 7000 email: Bernadette.Bouchon-Meunier .a_t. lip6.fr www: webia.lip6.fr/~lofti/Equipe/Bernadette

Oscar Cordon European Centre for Soft Computing Mieres, Spain email: oscar.cordon .a_t. softcomputing.es www: decsai.ugr.es/~ocordon

Hani Hagras Department of Computer Science University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester, England CO4 3SQ, UK phone: + 44 1206 873601 fax: +44 1206 872788 email: hani .a_t. essex.ac.uk

Francisco Herrera Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Granada Granada 18071, Spain phone: +34-958-240598 fax: +34-958-243317 email: herrera .a_t. decsai.ugr.es www: decsai.ugr.es/~herrera

Robert I. John Faculty of Computing Sciences & Engineering De Montfort University Room James Went 9.10 Leicester LE1 9BH, UK phone: (+44 116) 207 8491 fax: (+44 116) 254 1891 email: rij .a_t. dmu.ac.uk www: www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~rij

Laszlo T. Koczy Technical University of Budapest Sztoczek u.2 Budapest H-1111, Hungary phone: (+36 1) 1664 011/2488 fax: (+36 1) 1666 808 email: koczy .a_t. tmit.bme.hu

Rudolf Kruse Faculty of Computer Science Otto von Guericke Universitaet Universitaetsplatz 2 Magdeburg D-39106, Germany

Detlef Nauck Intelligent Systems Research Centre BT Group Orion Building PP1/12, Adastral Park Ipswich IP5 3RE, UK phone: +44 1473 605661 fax: +44 1473 623683 email: detlef.nauck .a_t. bt.com

Leszek Rutkowski Department of Computer Engineering Technical University of Czestochowa Armii Krajowej 36 Czestochowa 42-200, Poland phone: (+48 34) 325 0546 fax: (+48 34) 325 0546 email: lrutko .a_t. kik.pcz.czest.pl www: www.kik.pcz.czest.pl/~rutkowski

Qiang Shen School of Informatics University of Wales Appleton Tower, Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK phone: (+44 131) 650 2705 fax: (+44 131) 650 6513 email: qiangs .a_t. dai.ed.ac.uk www: homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/qiangs

Joao Miguel da Costa Sousa Department of Mechanical Engineering (GCAR) Technical University of Lisbon Pav. Eng. Mecanica III Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal

Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul Chiang Mai University Thailand

Gleb Beliakov School of IT Deakin University Australia email: gleb .a_t. deakin.edu.au

Gary Feng Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong phone: (+852) 2788 9032 fax: (+852) 2788 8423 email: megfeng .a_t. cityu.edu.hk

Tzung-Pei Hong Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National University of Kaohsiung Kaohsiung, Taiwan email: tphong .a_t. nuk.edu.tw

Mika Sato-Ilic University of Tsukuba Japan email: mika .a_t. risk.tsukuba.ac.jp

Hisao Ishibuchi Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Osaka Prefecture University 1-1 Gakuen-cho Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan phone: (+81 72) 254 9350 fax: (+81 72) 254 9915 email: hisaoi .a_t. ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp www: www.ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~hisaoi/ci_lab_e/personal/ishibuchi

Satish Kumar Department of Physics and Computer Science Dayalbagh Educational Institute India

Yongming Li Shaanxi Normal University China

Chin-Teng Lin Department of Electrical and Control Engineering National Chiao-Tung University 1001 Ta Hsueh Road Hsinchu City, 300, Taiwan phone: (+886 03) 5731753 fax: (+886 03) 5727382 email: ctlin .a_t. mail.nctu.edu.tw

Nikhil R. Pal Electronics and Communications Sciences Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Calcutta 700 108, India phone: (+91 33) 2575 2906 fax: (+91 33) 2577 3035 email: nikhil .a_t. isical.ac.in

Frank Rhee Hanyang University Korea

Woei Wan Tan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore 4 Engineering Drive 3 117576, Singapore phone: +65 6874 8323 fax: +65 6779 1103 email: eletanww .a_t. nus.edu.sg

Kazuo Tanaka Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu Tokyo 182-8585, Japan phone: +81-42-443-5425 fax: +81-42-443-5425 email: ktanaka .a_t. mce.uec.ac.jp

Task Forces

Other Web Resources

The Extension to Type-1 Fuzzy Sets Task Force maintains its own website at www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~rij/fstctf.html.

Type-2 Fuzzy Logic: www.type2fuzzylogic.org.