First CALL FOR PAPERS

########################################## 2nd International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS ’17) Santa Maria Key, Villa Clara, Cuba October 24 – 26, 2017 ##########################################

Website: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~rfalc032/isfuros2017/

Organized by: Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba (http://www.uclv.edu.cu)

Sponsored by: International Rough Set Society (IRSS) Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Belgium

################# Aim and Scope #################

Fuzzy and rough set theories stand as two of the most prominent methodologies within the umbrella of Computational Intelligence to handle uncertainty in vague and inconsistent environments. They have enjoyed widespread success in a plethora of real-world application domains and remain at the forefront of numerous theoretical studies to consolidate and augment their well-established properties.

The second edition of the International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2017) will take place at Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel, Santa Maria Key, in the province of Villa Clara, Cuba from October 24-26, 2017. It will be hosted by the Universidad Central de Las Villas (www.uclv.edu.cu). ISFUROS 2017 aims at providing a forum for exchange on fuzzy and rough set theories and their applications. The symposium includes tutorials, invited key lectures and paper presentations.

The goals of ISFUROS 2017 are to strengthen the relationships among researchers and institutions working on fuzzy and rough set theories, to increase awareness of these topics among the Latin American research community and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups.

#################### Submission Topics ####################

Submissions of original and previously unpublished work on fuzzy and rough set theories and applications are encouraged, including but not limited to the following topics:

Fuzzy sets • Mathematical and theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals • Fuzzy control, robotics, sensors, fuzzy hardware and architectures • Fuzzy data analysis, fuzzy clustering, classification and pattern recognition • Type-2 fuzzy sets, computing with words and granular computing • Fuzzy systems with big data and cloud computing, fuzzy analytics and visualization • Adaptive, hierarchical and hybrid (neuro- and evolutionary-) fuzzy systems • Fuzzy systems design and optimization • Fuzzy decision analysis, multi-criteria decision making and decision support • Fuzzy logic and its applications in industrial engineering • Fuzzy information processing, information extraction and fusion • Hardware/software for fuzzy systems • Fuzzy Markup Language and standard technologies for fuzzy systems

Rough sets • Covering / neighborhood-based rough sets • Decision-theoretic rough sets • Dominance-based rough sets • Game-theoretic rough sets • Bayesian rough sets • Variable consistency / precision rough sets • Rough clustering • Rough computing • Rough mereology • Rough-set-based techniques in Pattern Recognition, Machine learning and Big Data • Decision making methods based on rough sets.

Hybridization of fuzzy and rough sets • Theoretical foundations of Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets. • Machine learning methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets • Decision making methods based on Fuzzy-Rough and Rough-Fuzzy sets

Granular Computing • Information granulation / degranulation methods • Granular clustering / classification methods • Interval analysis, shadowed sets, near sets, probabilistic sets, etc. • Granular frameworks / hardware / software

Applications • Astronomy • Big Data Analytics • Big Data Analytics • Bioinformatics • Business Intelligence • Computer Vision • Cybernetics and Robotics • Cybersecurity • Finance / Retail / e-Commerce • Knowledge Management • Image Processing • Information Fusion • Internet of Things • Logistics • Machine Learning / Data Mining • Maritime Domain Awareness • Medicine and Health • Modeling and Simulation • Natural Language Processing • Natural Resources • Pattern Recognition • Risk Management • Security and Defense • Smart Cities • Web and Text Mining • Wireless Sensor Networks

########################## Conference Proceedings ##########################

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be made available to the conference attendees. The proceedings will have an ISBN and will be produced by UCLV’s publishing house.

After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a volume of Springer’s “Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing” series.

At least one of the authors must complete the conference registration by the early registration deadline; otherwise, the paper will not be included in the conference program or proceedings.

#################### Important Dates ####################

May 15, 2017 Paper submission deadline June 30, 2017 Acceptance notification August 30, 2017 Camera-ready version October 24 – 26, 2017 ISFUROS 2017

####################### Submission Guidelines #######################

Paper submission will be available from March 1st, 2017 via EasyChair. Please use this link to submit your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isfuros2017

Papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Authors must adhere to Springer LNCS guidelines using either Microsoft Word or LaTeX templates. The papers must have a maximum of nine (9) pages. Up to two (2) extra pages can be purchased at 100 CUC each.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three (3) Technical Program Committee members. Submissions must be identified as either research or application papers and will be reviewed using appropriate criteria. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, adoption potential, technical quality, and clarity.

############## Registration ##############

TBA

################### Official Language ###################

ISFUROS' official language is English.

######## Venue ########

ISFUROS 2017 will be held at the Valentin Perla Blanca Hotel in Santa Maria Key, located in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara. Santa Maria key is a tropical paradise 75 km north of Santa Clara city. It hosts some of the finest Cuban beaches in an environmentally friendly and utterly relaxing venue.

###################### Steering Committee ######################

Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba Chris Cornelis, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Bernard De Baets, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada Francisco Herrera, Universidad de Granada, Spain Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Poland Dominik Slezak, University of Warsaw, Poland José Luis Verdegay, Universidad de Granada, Spain Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

############################## Technical Program Committee ##############################

TBA

############################## ISFUROS 2017 Co-Chairs ##############################

Rafael Bello, Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba [rbellop-at-uclv-dot-edu-dot-cu] Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies / University of Ottawa, Canada [rfalcon-at-ieee-dot-org]