1. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee (FSTC) Activity Report July 2014 Chair: Uzay Kaymak (Netherlands) Vice-chairs:Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul (Thailand) Scott Dick (Canada)

2. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee 35 members (32+3 proposed) Geographical distribution: – Europe:14 – Asia:10 – North Americas: 8 – Latin Americas: 2 – Oceania: 1 – Africa: 0 Male: 27, Female: 8 Members from industry: 4 New members: 10

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4. Fuzzy Systems TC Main Conference FUZZ-IEEE: IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems YearLocationAttendeesSubmittedAcceptedOralPoster 07London534350 (66%) 08 WCCI 548376 (69%) 09Jeju Island483383 (79%) 10 WCCI 630472 (75%) 11Taiwan618439 (71%) 12 WCCI 476312 (65%)23676 13Hyderabad 624 313 (50%)3130 14WCCI553371(67%)30071 15Istanbul 16WCCI

5. 10 current task forces Zero new task forces: one proposed one under discussion Task Forces Terminated: Education Fuzzy transform Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Task Force Overview

6. 1.Adaptive and Evolving Fuzzy Systems Chair: Plamen Angelov 2.Competitions Chair: Xiaojun Zeng 3.Computing with Words Chair: Sergio Guadarrama 4.Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems Chair: Yusuke Nojima 5.Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Sets Chair: Hani Hagras 6.Fuzzy Control Theory and Application Chair: Jun Yoneyama Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Task Force List (1)

7. 7.Fuzzy Logic in Medical Sciences Chair: Syoji Kobashi 8.Fuzzy Modeling in Brain Computer Interactions and Cognitive Systems Chair: Li-Wei (Leo) Ko 9.Fuzzy Systems on Renewable Energy Chair: Faa-Jeng Lin 10.Fuzzy Systems Software Chair: Jesús Alcalá-Fernandez 11.Complex Fuzzy Sets and Logic (proposed) Chair: Scott Dick 12.Fuzzy Systems for Web Intelligence (proposed) Chair: Marek Reformat Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Task Force List (2)

8. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Discussions at TC meeting 1.Announcements of upcoming CIS conferences 2.Overview of FUZZ-IEEE 2014 and lessons learnt – Number of submissions stable – Special sessions seem to overshadow regular sessions – Coordination amongst different fuzzy systems conferences 3.Update on FUZZ-IEEE 2015, Istanbul, preparations – More emphasis on emerging directions – Balanced program between regular sessions, special sessions, tutorials and panels – Explore possibility of special issues from excellent papers 4.Preparations for celebrating 50 years of fuzzy sets in 2015 – Various activities during FUZZ-IEEE 2015, incl. fuzzy systems pioneers

9. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI 2014 Activities Organized at WCCI2014 Special sessions organized (organizers, title)  P. Angelov & D. Filev, Adaptive and Evolving Systems  P. Angelov. Panel session/special talks on Big Data Analytics  F.-J. Lin, H.-T. Yang. Fuzzy Systems on Renewable Energy  R. Alcalá, Y. Nojima, H. Ishibuchi, F. Herrera. Evolutionary fuzzy systems  H. Hagras, C. Wagner, D. Wu. Applications of Type-2 Fuzzy Systems  R. John, J. Garibaldi, S. Coupland. Theory of Type-2 Fuzzy Systems  H. Ying, T. Kumbasar, E. Yesil. Advances to Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control  C. Wagner, D. Wu, F. Doctor. Computational Intelligence for Physiological and Affective Computing  S. Kobashi, Md. A. Rahman Ahad. Paradigms of Fuzzy Systems for Medical Benefits  J. Alcalá-Fdez, J. M. Alonso. Software for Soft Computing  K. Crockett, B. Bouchon-Meunier, P.-C. Chung, G. Yen. Applications of Computational Intelligence in Education and Disability to Benefit Society

10. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI 2014 Activities Organized at WCCI2014 Special sessions organized (organizers, title)  V.E. Balas, T.-C. Lin, R. Dey. Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Time-delay Systems Control  S. Dick, D. Tamir. Complex Fuzzy Sets and Logic  C.S. Chan, J. Keller, D.T. Anderson, T.X. Han. Fuzzy Set Theory in Computer Vision  V.E. Balas, N. Popescu-Bodorin. Fuzzy Techniques in Biometrics  J. Mendel, M.R. Rajati. Computing with Words  G. Beliakov, S. James, G. Li. Aggregation Operators  N. Pal, Plenary panel “Is publish-or-perish causing death of science”  J. Mendel, Plenary panel “Big data and machine learning”  J. Yoneyama, T. Taniguchi, H.-K. Lam. Recent Advances in Fuzzy-Model-Based Control Design and Analysis

11. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI 2014 Activities Organized at WCCI2014 Tutorials organized (organizers, title)  P. Angelov, J. Principe, A. Roy. Autonomous Learning.  J. Mendel. Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems with Application to Perceptual Computing.  S. M. Vieira, U. Kaymak, J. M. Sousa. Probabilistic fuzzy systems.

12. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Activities to be organized at SSCI2014 Special sessions organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member)  P. Angelov, D. Filev, N. Kasabov. Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS’14), TF Adaptive & Evolving Systems, P. Angelov, D. Filev.  Xiao-Jun Zeng. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (IEEE CICA'2014), TF Competitions, Xiao-Jun Zeng.  H. Hagras, V. Loia. IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Agents, TF Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Sets, H. Hagras.  M. Beer, R. Kruse, V. Kreinovich. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES'14), V. Kreinovich, R. Kruse.  D. Srinivasan, J. Dauwels, A. Bazzan. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems (CIVTS’14), D. Srinivasan.  Y. Jin, P. Bonissone, J. Branke. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making (IEEE MCDM'2014), P. Bonissone.

13. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)  Plenary on autonomous learning systems, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems, P. Angelov.  Key note on autonomous learning of big data streams, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, P. Angelov.  E. Lughofer, M. Sayed Mouchaweh, Special issue on Evolving Systems Applications, Evolving Systems, TF Adaptive and Evolving Fuzzy Systems.  R. Seising. Issue 1, Archives for the Philosophy and History of Soft Computing.  R. Seising, Invited key speech, IEEE 2014 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21 st Century, R. Seising.  J. Inthorn, M.E. Tabacchi, R. Seising. Chapter contribution in Machine Medical Ethics.  J. Mendel, H. Hagras, W. Wan Tan, H. Ying, W. Melek. Book preparation titled “Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control”, TF Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Sets, H. Hagras, J. Mendel.

14. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)  T. Aste, A. Serguieva, U. Kaymak. Spring School on Financial Computing and Analytics, U. Kaymak.  A. Serguieva. 2014 IEEE Conference on Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr 2014), U. Kaymak.  The 4 th International eCongress on Computers and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE 2014), M.-R. Akbarzadeh-T.  The 14th Iranian Conference on Fuzzy Systems (ICFS 2014), M.-R. Akbarzadeh- T.  The 20 th National Computer Conference of Iran (CSICC2015 ), M.-R. Akbarzadeh-T.  M. Ceberio, V. Kreinovich (eds.). Constraint Programming and Decision Making, edited volume, V. Kreinovich.  V.-N. Huynh, V. Kreinovich, S. Sriboonchitta (eds.). Modeling Dependence in Econometrics, edited volume, V. Kreinovich.

15. Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)  M. Jamshidi, V. Kreinovich, J. Kacprzyk (eds.). Advanced Trends in Soft Computing, edited volume, V. Kreinovich, J. Kacprzyk.  M. Ceberio, V. Kreinovich. Special issue of Journal of Uncertain Systems on Uncertainty, to appear 2015, Vol. 9, V. Kreinovich.  M. Ceberio, V. Kreinovich. Special issue of Journal of Uncertain Systems on Uncertainty, 2014, Vol. 8, No.3, V. Kreinovich.  V.-N. Huynh, V. Kreinovich, Special issue of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning on Uncertainty in Financial Econometrics, 2013, Vol. 54, No. 6, V. Kreinovich.