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IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Special Issue on Computing With Words

I. AIM AND SCOPE

The phrase computing with words (CW or CWW) was introduced by Lotfi Zadeh in the 1990¡¦s as a methodology in which the objects of computation are words and propositions drawn from a natural language. [It is] inspired by the remarkable human capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and any computations. Since his seminal article, quite a few articles and books have been published with this phrase in their titles, and yet these publications have taken very different points of view about CWW, ranging from theoretical to how to actually do it. CWW should be viewed as an important and relatively new direction for the fuzzy logic field, so the time is right for these different viewpoints to be collected in one place in order to provide an overview of the main ideas and research directions and to motivate new researchers to move into this exciting field. This proposed special-issue of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems will accomplish this.

The aim of this special issue is to highlight the most significant recent developments on the topics of CWW, to identify the most recent research directions, and publicize CWW to a wider audience.

II. TOPICS COVERED

Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work in the areas including (but not limited to) the following:

• Theoretical studies of CWW paradigms and algorithms
• Development of new CWW paradigms and algorithms
• Convincing applications of CWW
• Modeling of words using real data and interaction with users
• Validation of CWW paradigms
• Representational Frameworks
• Psychological connections
• Linguistic connections
• Operational semantics for formal models of linguistic concepts (grounding words in perceptions and actions)
• Agent based distributed models of linguistic communication
• Interpretability versus accuracy in CWW

III. IMPORTANT DATES

• March 15, 2009: Submission deadline
• June 15, 2009: Notification of the first-round review
• September 15, 2009: Revised submission due
• December 15, 2009: Final notice of acceptance/reject
• January 30, 2010: Final manuscript

IV. SUBMISSION

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the instructions of the ¡§Information for Authors¡¨ section of the journal found at http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tfs/authors/ and submission should be done through the IEEE TFS journal website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tfs-ieee/ and clearly mark ¡§Special Issue on Computing With Words¡¨ as comments to the Editor-in-Chief. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed using the standard procedure that is followed for regular submissions.

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