6th International Workshop Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '99

Fuzzy-Neuro Systems `99 is the sixth event of a well established series of workshops with international participation. Its aim is to give an overview of the state of the art in research and development of fuzzy systems and artificial neural networks. Another aim is to highlight applications of these methods and to forge innovative links between theory and application by means of creative discussions.

Fuzzy-Neuro Systems `99 is being organized by the Research Committee 1.2 "Inference Systems" (Fachausschuss 1.2 "Inferenzsysteme") of the German Society of Computer Science GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V.) and Universität Leipzig, March 18 - 19, 1999

• Workshop Chairs: Gerhard Brewka and Siegfried Gottwald
• Local Organization: Ralf Der and Andreas Schierwagen

Programme Committee

Topics of interest:

• theory and principles of multivalued logic and fuzzy logic
• representation of fuzzy knowledge
• approximate reasoning
• fuzzy control in theory and practice
• fuzzy logic in data analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition
• fuzzy classification systems
• fuzzy decision support systems
• fuzzy logic in non-technical areas like business administration, management etc.
• fuzzy databases
• theory and principles of artificial neural networks
• hybrid learning algorithms
• neural networks in pattern recognition, classification, process monitoring and production control
• theory and principles of evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithms and evolution strategies
• discrete parameter and structure optimization
• hybrid systems like neuro-fuzzy systems, connectionist expert systems etc.
• special hardware and software

Submissions should be extended abstracts of 4-6 pages. Please send 5 copies of your contribution to Gerhard Brewka, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, Augustusplatz 10-11, 04109 Leipzig, Germany. Proceedings containing full versions of accepted papers will be published. Abstracts may be in German. The final versions appearing in the proceedings as well as the presentation of papers must be in English.

Schedule:

• Submission of papers: Nov. 22nd, 1998
• Notification of authors: Dec. 15th, 1998
• Final version of accepted papers: Jan. 16th, 1999
• Workshop: March 18-19, 1999

The conference language will be English.

Invited speakers:

• Peter Hajek (Prague): Fuzzy Predicate Calculus and Fuzzy Rules
• Raul Rojas (Berlin): Recognition of Handwritten ZIP Codes with Neural Networks
• Sebastian Thrun (Pittsburgh): to be announced

Special event: invited session on Fuzzy Image Processing

There will be a special session containing the following talks:

• Fuzzy Image Processing: The Outlines of a Methodology, Hamid Tizhoosh, (Magdeburg)
• Fuzzy Techniques in Computer Vision, J. Hiltner (Dortmund), A. Klose (Magdeburg), M. Köppen (Berlin)

Preliminary Program

Registration

Conference location

The conference will be held in the Geschwister Scholl Haus, Ritterstrasse 8/10, opposite the Nikolaikirche. It's just a 5 minutes walk from Leipzig's central station (Hauptbahnhof, this is also where the bus from the airport takes you). For a map click here. No. 23 on the map is Nikolaikirche, the conference location is on the right end of the church icon on the map.

Hotel Mercure is on Augustusplatz 5/6, a little further to the right on the map.

Leipzig Marriott Hotel, Am Hallischen Tor 1, is opposite the central station, just go a little south on the map where Tröndlinring and Willy-Brandt-Platz meet.

The conference dinner will take place on March 18th in Coffe Baum, Kleine Fleischergasse, Leipzig's oldest remaining coffee-house which has served guests like Lessing, Goethe, Napoleon, Liszt, Schumann and Wagner. The dinner includes a guided tour through the coffee museum in the same building.

More information about Leipzig can be found here.

Conference bureau

Our conference bureau will be located in the entrance area of Geschwister Scholl Haus. It will be open

• Wednesday evening from 6.00 to 8.00 pm
• Thursday from 8.00 am to 5.30 pm
• Friday from 8.00 am to 3.00 pm

Preceding workshops were held in Braunschweig (1993), Munich (1994), Darmstadt (1995), Soest (1997) and  Munich   (1998).

Invited plenary speakers at earlier workshops were H. Bersini (Bruxelles) James C. Bezdek (Pensacola), D. Dubois (Toulouse), J.A. Feldman (Berkeley), H. Hellendoorn (Munich), Harro Kiendl (Dortmund) E.P. Klement (Linz), L. Koczy (Tokyo, Budapest), T. Kohonen (Espoo), R. Kruse (Braunschweig), E.H. Mamdani (London), Zdzislaw Pawlak (Warsaw) W. Pedrycz (Winnipeg), H.-P. Schwefel (Dortmund) L.A. Zadeh (Berkeley) and H.-G. Zimmermann (München) H.-J. Zimmermann (Aachen).