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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

Americas
Piero P. Bonissone, General Electric Global Research, USA
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Scott Dick, University of Alberta, Canada
Neil H. Eklund, General Electric Global Research, USA
Dimitar P. Filev, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, USA
James M. Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Jerry Mendel, University of Southern California, USA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Hongwei Wu, University of Georgia, USA
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA

Europe
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK
Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, UPMC - LIP6, France
Oscar Cordon, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Robert I. John, De Montfort University, UK
Laszlo T. Koczy, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Rudolf Kruse, Otto von Guericke Universitaet, Germany
Detlef Nauck, BT Group, UK
Leszek Rutkowski, Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland
Qiang Shen, University of Wales, UK
Joao Miguel da Costa Sousa, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Asia & Pacific
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Gleb Beliakov, Deakin University, Australia
Gary Feng, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Mika Sato-Ilic, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Satish Kumar, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India
Yongming Li, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Frank Rhee, Hanyang University, Korea
Woei Wan Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kazuo Tanaka, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

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.