NAFIPS2009 Program

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Dear session chairs, please check the Changes in the Program as frequently as you can.

June 14th, 2009 (Sunday)

4:40-6:40 Tutorial (@ERC Auditorium)

• Fuzzy Neural Computing Systems: Theory and Applications
  Madan M. Gupta

7:00-9:00 Welcome Reception

June 15th, 2009 (Monday)

8:30-8:50 Open Remarks (@Salon A/B)

Anca Ralescu

9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture (@Salon A/B)

• (PM1) From Fuzzy Logic to Extended Fuzzy Logic—A First Step
  Lotfi A. Zadeh (Chair: Dan Ralescu)

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

10:20-12:00 Parallel Sessions (1@Mt. Auburn, 2@Mt. Echo, 3@Mt. Lookout, 4@Salon A/B)

1. (SM1.1) Regular Session: Classification, Clustering and Segmentation
   Chairs: Nick J. Pizzi and Asli Celikyilmaz
2. (SM1.2) Special Session: Intelligent E-Services and Multi-Agent Systems for Web-Based B2C E-Commerce – Part I
   Chair: Luis Martinez
3. (SM1.3) Special Session: The Meaning of Information, Cognition, and Fuzziness
   Chairs: Rudolf Seising and Andreas Nuernberger
4. (SM1.4) Regular Session: Database and Ontology
   Chairs: Patrick Bosc and Julia Taylor

12:00-1:20 Lunch Break

1:20-2:20 Plenary Lecture (@Salon A/B)

• (PM2) Decision and Stability Analysis in Fuzzy Economics
  Rafik A. Aliev (Chair: Atsushi Inoue)

2:20-2:40 Coffee Break

2:40-4:20 Parallel Sessions (1@Mt. Auburn, 2@Mt. Echo, 3@Mt. Lookout, 4@Salon A/B)

1. (SM2.1) Regular Session: Modeling
   Chairs: Elizabeth Diaz and Vilem Novak
2. (SM2.2a) Special Session: Intelligent E-Services and Multi-Agent Systems for Web-Based B2C E-Commerce – Part II
   Chair: Jie Lu
   PLUS
   (SM2.2b) Regular Session: Generalization and Summarization
   Chair: Fred Petry
3. (SM2.3) Regular Session: Applications in Biology, Health and Medicine
   Chairs: I Burhan Turksen and Bozena Malysiak-Mrozek
4. (SM2.4) Regular Session: Fuzzy Rules
   Chairs: Andrew Hamilton-Wright and Trevor Martin

4:20-4:40 Coffee Break

4:40-6:40 Parallel Sessions (1@Mt. Auburn, 2@Mt. Echo, 3@Mt. Lookout, 4@Salon A/B)

1. (SM3.1) Regular Session: Forecasting and Prediction
   Chairs: Martine De Cock and Fernando Gomide
2. (SM3.2) Special Session: Inter-Relation Between Interval and Fuzzy Techniques
   Chairs: Vladik Kreinovich and Weldon Lodwick
3. (SM3.3a) Special Session: Rough Sets and Granular Computing
   Chairs: Tsau Young Lin and Shusaku Tsumoto
   PLUS
   (SM3.3b)Special Session: Soft Computing and Biosciences
   Chair: Rudolf Seising and Cathy M Helgason
4. (SM3.4) Preliminary Reports: Informatics and Image Processing
   Chairs: Hiromi Ban and Nallappan Palaniappan

7:00-9:00 Reception

• Celebrating the 25th anniversary of NAFIPS

June 16th, 2009 (Tuesday)

9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture (@Salon A/B)

• (PT1) Intelligent Social Network Modeling
  Ronald R. Yager (Chair: Vladik Kreinovich)

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

10:20-11:40 Parallel Sessions (1@Mt. Auburn, 2@Mt. Echo, 3@Mt. Lookout, 4@Salon A/B)

1. (ST1.1) Regular Session: Control – Part I
   Chairs: Da Ruan and Hao Ying
2. (ST1.2) Regular Session: Decision
   Chairs: M M Sufyan Beg and Shih-Chuan Cheng
3. (ST1.3) Regular Session: Applications in Business and Social Science
   Chairs: Karaman Pagava and Mark Wierman
4. (ST1.4) Special Session: Best Student Papers
   Chairs: Atsushi Inoue and Vladik Kreinovich

11:40-1:20 Lunch Break

1:20-2:20 Plenary Lecture (@Salon A/B)

• (PT2) Fuzzy Models in Analogy and Case-Based Reasoning
  Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (Chair: Anca Ralescu)

2:20-2:40 Coffee Break

2:40-3:40 Plenary Lecture (@Salon A/B)

• (PT3) A Review of Several Fuzzy Function Structures
  I Burhan Turksen (Chair: Asli Celikyilmaz)

3:40-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-5:00 NAFIPS General Meeting (@Salon A/B)

6:00-10:00 Banquet

• BB Riverboats
• A shuttle will leave the conference hotel around 6pm.

June 17th, 2009 (Wednesday)

9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture (@Salon A/B)

• (PW1) Theory and Applications of Fuzzy Random Variables
  Dan Ralescu (Chair: Atsushi Inoue)

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

10:20-12:20 Parallel Sessions (1@Mt. Auburn, 2@Mt. Echo, 3@Mt. Lookout, 4@Salon A/B)

1. (SW1.1a) Regular Session: Control – Part II
   Chairs: Madan Gupta and Devinder Kaur
   PLUS
   (SW1.1b) Preliminary Reports: Systems
   Chairs: Madan Gupta and Devinder Kaur
2. (SW1.2) Special Session: Fuzzy Risk Management
   Chair: Thomas Whalen
3. (SW1.3) Regular Session: Theory
   Chairs: Joseh Barone and Valerie Cross
4. (SW1.4) Preliminary Reports: Methods
   Chairs: Premchand Nair and Irina Perfilieva

12:20-1:30 Farewell Lunch