Please, accept our apologies for multiple postings. *** Extended deadline: February 8, 2007 *** WILF 2007 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications Hotel Portofino Kulm - Portofino Vetta, Ruta di Camogli (Genova), Italy July 7-10, 2007 Conference Website: http://wilf2007.disi.unige.it WILF workshop series covers all topics in theoretical, experimental and applied fuzzy techniques and systems. It is aimed to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry to report on the latest scientific and theoretical advances in this field, and to demonstrate the state-of-the-art systems. WILF 2007 aims to stress the role and the synergies of Fuzzy Sets and Systems and the other approaches of Natural Computing (that ranges from Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Sets, Support Vector Machines to Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, Molecular Computing, Quantum Computing, and so on), in order to obtain a better understanding of computing going on in Nature as well as develop powerful computing systems inspired by Nature for solving complex problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. General techniques and algorithms: Fuzzy Sets; Rough Sets; Possibility Theory; Fuzzy Logic; Fuzzy Systems; Neuro-Fuzzy Systems; Representation of Vague and Imprecise Knowledge; Fuzzy Evolutionary Algorithms; Fuzzy Pattern Recognition; Fuzzy Data Fusion. 2. Applications: Bioinformatics; Broadcasting; Control; Communications; Information Retrieval; Intelligent Resource Management; Knowledge Management; Medical; Opto-mechatronics; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Semantic Web; Speech Analysis; Television; Telepresence; Virtual Reality. 3. Implementations: Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems; Architectures and VLSI Hardware; Programmable Processors; Commercial Software. Invited speakers include: Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, CANADA Alessandro Villa, Universite' Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, FRANCE Ronald Yager, Iona College, New York, USA Joaquin Dopazo, Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, Valencia, SPAIN Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA The scientific program will include, besides some invited talks, contributed papers that will be presented in plenary oral or poster sessions. Four special sessions on "Bioinformatics and Biostatistics", "Cross-Language Information Processing", "Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets", and "Soft Computing in Image Processing" are planned. Proceedings of WILF 2007 will published by Springer as a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/LNAI. A selection of papers will be peer reviewed for originality, technical contents and relevance and will be considered for publication in a special issue of a scientific journal. Chairs: Francesco Masulli (University of Genova, Italy) Sushmita Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) Scientific Program Committee: Jim Bezdek (University of West Florida, USA) Isabelle Bloch (ENST-CNRS, France) Gloria Bordogna (IDPA CNR, Italy) Mohand Boughanem (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy) Gianpiero Cattaneo (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy) Giulianella Coletti (University of Perugia, Italy) Mario Fedrizzi (University of Trento, Italy) Brunella Gerla (University of Salerno, Italy) Antonio Gisolfi (University of Salerno, Italy) Ugur Halici (METU, Ankara, Turkey) Katsuhiro Honda (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Janusz Kacprzyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) Nik Kasabov (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) Etienne Kerre (Ghent University, Belgium) Erich P. Klement (J. Kepler University, Linz, Austria) Sankar Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada) Germano Resconi (Catholic University of Brescia, Italy) Elie Sanchez (Universite Aix-Marseille II, France) Michio Sugeno (Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan) Umberto Straccia (ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy) Settimo Termini (University of Palermo and CNR, Italy) Ronald Yager (Iona College, New York, USA) Steering Commitee: Andrea Bonarini (Politecnico of Milan, Italy) Vito Di Gesu' (University of Palermo, Italy) Antonio Di Nola (University of Salerno, Italy) Francesco Masulli (University of Genova, Italy) Gabriella Pasi (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy) Alfredo Petrosino (University of Napoli "Parthenope", Italy) Important Dates: Paper submission deadline Feb 8 2007 (extended) Notification of acceptance Feb 28 2007 Submission of camera-ready Mar 31 2007 Workshop Jul 7-10 2007 Paper submission: Manuscripts, prepared according to the Springer LNCS format (see Instructions for LNCS Authors of "Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes" downloadable at http://www.springer.com/) may not be longer than 8 pages, and must be uploaded in pdf format to http://wilf2007.disi.unige.it/openconf/openconf-wilf2007/index.php The papers will be peer-reviewed and the authors will be notified via email of the results of the review by Feb 28 2007. 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