IPMU 2010
13-th International Conference on Information Processing
and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems
Dortmund, Germany, June 28 - July 2, 2010

Call for Papers:

Special Session on
Fuzzy Numbers and Fuzzy Arithmetic

Organizers:
Przemysław Grzegorzewski and Luciano Stefanini

The aim of this Special Session is to bring together researchers interested in different aspects of fuzzy number theory, like approximations and representations of fuzzy numbers, construction of operators for the exact and approximate fuzzy arithmetic and relevant applications of fuzzy calculus. Presentations focused both on theoretical and applied aspects of the topics mentioned above are welcome.

• Topics and scope
  
• Publication
  
• Instructions for the authors
  
• Important dates
  
• Session chairs and contacts
  

| Topics and scope of the Special Session include (but are not limited to):

• Algorithms for fuzzy arithmetic and fuzzy calculus
  
• Approximation of fuzzy numbers
  
• Computation in fuzzy arithmetic
  
• Decomposition of fuzzy numbers
  
• Distances between fuzzy numbers
  
• Fuzzy arithmetic
  
• Fuzzy intervals
  
• Fuzzy numbers in soft computing
  
• Generalized fuzzy numbers
  
• Operations on fuzzy numbers
  
• Ranking fuzzy numbers
  
• Representations of fuzzy numbers
  

| Publication

The proceedings of the IPMU-2010 conference will be published in the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a subseries of LNCS) and CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) series of Springer-Verlag. Both series are indexed by the most important scientific information services, including ISI.

| Instructions for the authors

The authors interested In this Special Session are invited to send a short description of the proposed paper (list of authors + tentative title + summary) to the session chairs P. Grzegorzewski or L. Stefanini.

All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only using EasyChair associated site of IPMU 2010 Conference. The deadline for paper submission is January 17th, 2010.

The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Formatting instructions and files are also available through the conference website.
The maximum length of papers is at most 10 pages in this format.
Contributions will be selected based upon their originality and scientific quality as evaluated by 2-3 referees.
The authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection by March 7th, 2010.

| Important dates

• Submission of papers: January 17th, 2010
  
• Notification of acceptance: March 7th, 2010
  
• Submission of final versions: April 4th, 2010
  

| Session chairs and contacts

Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski
  Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Newelska 6, 01-447 Warsaw, Poland
  and
  Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology
  Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland
  Phone: (+48) 22-381-02-07 , (+48)22-234-79-88
  Fax: (+48) 22-381-01-05
  E-mail: pgrzeg@ibspan.waw.pl

Luciano Stefanini
  Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Urbino Carlo Bo
  Via A. Saffi, 42, 61029 Urbino (PU), Italy
  Phone: (+39) 722-305-503 , (+39) 722-305-510
  Fax: (+39) 722-305-550
  E-mail: lucste@uniurb.it