13th International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology (FT&T) Track

of the 11^th Joint Conference on Information Science (JCIS-2008)

http://www.jcis.org.cn
December 15-20, 2008, Shenzhen, China
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School

13th FT&T Call For Papers

SPECIAL SESSION on Advances on Type-2 Fuzzy System and Applications

SPECIAL SESSION on Knowledge Extraction User Generated Content

SPECIAL SESSION on MODELING NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE HAZARDS

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

    JCIS, The Joint Conference of Information Sciences, announces the next edition of its 13^th International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology (FT&T 2008) , to be held at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzen, China from December 15^th to 20^th, 2008.

    The earlier events in this series featured many eminent researchers on fuzzy logic theory and applications, invited speakers, as will be the case this year as well. See http://www.jcis.org.cn for information on past events as well as updates on this conference.

    Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original/high quality and unpublished research in the top research areas listed below (but not limited to). This year we are accepting papers on the latest research topics. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available at the time of the conference. Special issues for the selected high quality papers have been proposed to the following SCI and Expanded journals;

- Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing (confirmed)

- Information Sciences, Elsevier (awaiting confirmation)

- Computer Science Journals from Elsevier (awaiting confirmation)

Paper Submission:Authors may submit drafts of full papers or extended abstracts. The submission must not exceed 6 pages Please follow paper format regulation and submit a PDF file electronically to the JCIS 2008 Online Submission and review system. http://www.jcis.org.cn/Submisssion.html. If appropriate, proof details omitted in the paper may be added in an appendix meant for the reviewers. Concurrent submissions to other conferences/journals are not admissible.
For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference.

Special Sessions Proposals:You are also welcome to organize a special session on a related topic of your choice. Invited/special session organizers are expected to:

- Obtain five or six papers on the session topics;

- Have each of the papers reviewed by at least two experts;

- Provide soft and hard copy final camera-ready papers according to the instructions-to-authors of the conference;

- Attend the conference and chair the session.

- Submit a proposal for an invited/special session by sending the following details via email to the FT&T 2008 at asli@eecs.berkeley.edu

- Name and a brief biography of each organizer (about half a page);

- Title and a 100-150 words abstract of the proposed session;

- Names, titles and contact information of all presenters;

- Brief biographies of all presenters (75 words or less).

Workshops & Special Sessions:

• Type-2 Fuzzy Systems and Applications (Session Chairs: I.Burhan Turksen bturksen@etu.edu.tr, Asli Celikyilmaz asli@eecs.berkeley.edu)
• Knowledge extraction from User Generated Content (Session Chairs: Dr. Marcus Thint marcus.2.thint@bt.com , Dr. Simon Thompson simon.2.thompson@bt.com )

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FT&T Track Topics:
    FT&T 2008 conference will cover the whole range of research and applications in fuzzy systems and soft computing, including (but not limited to):

·Computational Intelligence with Software Engineering
·Computing with words, granular computing, rough sets, fuzzy human computer interaction
·Fuzzy information processing - information extraction and retrieval, fusion, text mining
·Advances in Text/Natural Language Analysis, Precisiated Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
·Fuzzy AI - knowledge discovery, learning, reasoning, agents, knowledge representation
·Fuzzy sets and Systems - Type-1 and Type-2
·Fuzzy control and robotics, sensors, fuzzy hardware, fuzzy architectures
·Fuzzy data mining- clustering and classification, pattern recognition, bio-informatics, fuzzy clustering with focus on text corpus
·Fuzzy image, speech and signal processing, vision and multimedia
·Fuzzy optimization and design, decision analysis and support
·Fuzzy systems and the internet - semantic web, ontology, searching, networks and routing, intrusion detection
·Mathematical foundations of fuzzy systems
·Soft computing and hybrid systems - adaptive, hierarchical, evolutionary, neural and nature-inspired systems
·Web mining techniques for targeted information, characterizations of user generated content and systems
·Analysis of User generated content on the web
·Studies on social intelligence and analysis methods
·Industrial, financial and medical applications

Contact:
13th Fuzzy Theory and Technology Conference, General Chair
Prof. I. Burhan Turksen, bturksen@etu.edu.tr, University of Toronto, Canada/ Technology and Economy University, Turkey
13th Fuzzy Theory and Technology Conference, Program Chair
Dr. Asli Celikyilmaz, asli@eecs.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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The aim of this special session is to present top quality research in the area of theory and applications of type-2 fuzzy logic and systems. The session will also provide a forum for the academic community and industry to report on the recent advances on the type-2 fuzzy logic theory, fuzzy systems and applications in the various domains of type-2 fuzzy systems. Topics include, but are not limited by:

(I) Type-2 Theoretical Aspects:Representations of type-2 fuzzy sets, Inferencing, Relations, Type-reduction, Defuzzification, Knowledge Representation, Relationships to Rough sets, Relationships to Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, Fuzzy System Modeling under Uncertainty

(II) Type-2 Applications: Robotics, Control, Decision Making, Classification, Modelling, Computing with words, Any other application area that deploys type-2 fuzzy logic.

The papers have to follow the submission guidelines for JCIS 2008 available at http://www.jcis.org.cn.

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Special Session Chairs:

Prof. I. Burhan Turksen, bturksen@etu.edu.tr, University of Toronto , Canada / Technology and Economy University , Turkey

Dr. Asli Celikyilmaz, asli@eecs.berkeley.edu, University of California , Berkeley , USA

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Knowledge extraction from User Generated Content

It is a growing trend that customers post comments and discussions about products and services on public forums, blogs, and internet portals rather than being limited to interacting with a vendor's website.
Accordingly, there is a growing body of supplemental knowledge for corporations in the realm of user generated content (UGC) on the web.
It is desirable to extract useful information such as: typical, provocative, novel positive and negative comments, topic clusters & taxonomy of available UGC, key issues requiring prompt attention,
long-standing unsolved issues, and even some clever solutions/work-arounds to problems unknown to internal support staff.
Moreover, since these posts are linked to individuals, external hackers and experts on various topics can also be identified. 

This special session calls for papers related to:

- techniques for targeted information harvesting from web sources
- characterizations of UGC, and systems that facilitate effective production of UGC
- metrics for understanding performance of tools for analysing UGC
- studies on social intelligence and analysis methods
- novel approaches to text information extraction
- fuzzy clustering and classification, with focus on text corpus
- advances in text/natural language analysis
- sentiment analysis of text passages
- expert/expertise identification from web sources
- approaches to exploiting user generated data
- challenges in classification and characterisation of problems and issues from UGC
- system, interface and interaction dynamics that facilitate high performance analysis of UGC
- comparative quantitative evaluation of algorithms and systems in UGC
- data and stream management strategies for high volume and large datasets of UGC
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Important Dates:

  For more information please visit the web site: www.jcis.org.cn

Special Session Chairs:

Dr. Marcus Thint marcus.2.thint@bt.com
Principal Research Scientist Intelligent Systems Research Center
British Telecom Group Chief Technology Office

Dr. Simon Thompson simon.2.thompson@bt.com
Research Group Leader
Intelligent Systems Research Center
British Telecom Group Chief Technology Office

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Traditional risk analysis is most typically applied to food components, pharmaceuticals, or waste products. In such cases, assessing the probability and magnitude of potential harm from historical and/or laboratory data can be reasonably straightforward.
However, when systems are in place that make the probability of a hazardous release very small, the rarity of relevant historical cases makes the confidence intervals for probability estimates proportionally so wide as to render them nearly useless.
Yet the possibility of such ultra-rare events cannot be ignored. The physical consequences can be huge as at Bhopal or Chernobyl; even if they are not, the element of surprise can lead to great public fear and outrage, as in the case of Three Mile Island.

Organizers: Thomas Whalen, Georgia State University; Murray Cohen, Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Foundation

1. Issues in Microbial Risk Assessment
Murray Cohen mcohen@cdicinc.com

2. Possibilistic Risk and Counter- Factual Probabilities
Thomas Whalen tom@whalen3.org

3 Maximum Possible Risk Modeling
Martin Schütz

4. Explicit Spatial-Temporal Model of Rare Events
Ling Bian lbian@buffalo.edu

5. Sensitivity Analysis and Worst Case Analysis: A Possibilistic View
Thomas Taylor ttaylor47@mac.com

Thomas Whalen, Georgia State University

Thomas Whalen is a professor of Decision Sciences in the Department of Managerial Sciences at Georgia State University and at American University in Bulgaria. He holds degrees in Psychology (BS), Sociology (MA), and Systems Science (MS, Ph.D.) from Michigan State University. Professor Whalen’s research focuses on the application of approximate reasoning to decision making under generalized uncertainty, especially in the fuzzy area between ignorance and risk. The research uses various combinations of linguistic variables, complete and incomplete weak orders, fuzzy arithmetic, fuzzy logic, parameterized norms, and the theory of evidence and possibility. He has published more than 130 papers in major conference proceedings and academic journals.
Dr. Whalen has participated in risk and hazard assessment for several major biological research laboratories in the U.S. and Switzerland. He has also done extensive work in modeling the course of disease in inhalation anthrax.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a recipient of the King-Sun Fu award of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, of which he is a founding member.

Murray Cohen, Frontline Foundation

Dr. Murray L. Cohen is an internationally recognized expert in bioterrorism, workplace safety, biosafety, industrial hygiene and infectious disease control.
Murray L. Cohen served for 21 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His specialty area was the prevention of occupationally transmitted infections, including bacterial diseases (anthrax, tuberculosis) and bloodborne viruses (HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, ebola). After retiring from the CDC in 1996, Dr. Murray L. Cohen founded Consultants in Disease and Injury Control, Inc. (CDIC) and the Frontline Healthcare Worker's Safety Foundation Ltd.
Since anthrax was first identified as the active biological agent of the 2001 postal attacks, Dr. Murray Cohen has worked with the responding government agencies. He is on the scientific team conducting ongoing research on anthrax at government laboratories. He has helped develop sampling techniques, containment strategies, safe mail handling procedures, and decontamination techniques. He also serves on several anthrax task forces, ad hoc committees, and has provided briefings on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Murray Cohen has received numerous honors, including commendations from the US Public Health Service. He also is the author of journal articles, book chapters, government publications and training videos on a variety of health and safety related topics. He is a Diplomat in the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene and a member of the American Biological Safety Association, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
Dr. Murray Cohen earned a Ph.D. in occupational and environmental health sciences at the University of Illinois Medical Center, a master's degree in community health sciences from the University of Texas School of Public Health, and a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from the University of Texas.

Ling Bian. SUNY Buffalo

Dr. Bian is a Professor of Geography at the State University of New York of Buffalo and a research scientist in the National Center for Geographical Information Analysis. Her research interests are in the integration of GIS with environmental modeling. Her current research projects are in? three areas: (1)? Individual-based epidemiological modeling, (2) Inter-operable environmental models, and (3) Geographic image retrieval. She teaches courses in GIS, remote sensing, geostatistics, environmental modeling, and objects and fields.

Thomas H. Taylor Jr., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Thomas H. Taylor, Jr. is a Mathematical Statistician with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta. Previous positions include executive with an international engineering firm and owner/manager of his own consulting firm.? He received the 2005 CDC/ATSDR Honor Award for “Public Health Statistical Research and Services.”? His innovative method for serological assays is under review for a U.S. Methods patent.? Publications include several infectious disease journals and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Martin Schütz, Spiez Laboratory

Martin Schütz (born 1964) studied micro and molecular biology at the University of Bern. Following the successful completion of his degree course at the Institute for General Microbiology, he moved to the Federal Research Centre Agroscope FAW W?denswil, where he completed his doctoral thesis on the microbiological processes of wine production. He continued to work in the oenological research and advice service of the FAW until 1995. In the same year, he joined the Biology Group of the SPIEZ LABORATORY. He has been Head of the Biology Division of the SPIEZ LABORATORY since 2001.

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