2022 North American
Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference
NAFIPS'2022

Tuesday, May 31 - Friday, June 3, 2022
Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(The conference will take place in a dual mode: In-person and Virtual)

Call For Papers Conference Schedule

About The Event

The aim of NAFIPS 2022 is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners working in fuzzy logic and related areas to present their latest achievements and innovations. The meeting offers a unique platform for the exchange of ideas, discussion of thought-provoking developments and challenges, consideration of potential future directions. The scope of this conference covers all aspects of theory and applications in fuzzy systems, soft computing methods, and fuzzy information processing.

Where

Saint Mary's University, Halifax
(The conference will take place in a dual mode: In-person and Virtual)

When

Tuesday to Friday
May 31 - June 3, 2022

Topics

The scope of this conference covers all aspects of theory and applications in fuzzy systems, soft computing methods, and fuzzy information processing including, but not limited to:

  • mathematical foundations of fuzzy sets and fuzzy systems
  • approximate reasoning, fuzzy inference models, and soft computing
  • fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
  • fuzzy decision analysis, decision making, optimization, and design
  • fuzzy system architectures and hardware
  • fuzzy methods in data analysis, statistics and imprecise probability
  • fuzzy databases and information retrieval
  • fuzzy pattern recognition and image processing
  • fuzzy control and robotics
  • possibility theory
  • fuzzy sets and logic in ontology, web, and social networks
  • fuzzy preference modeling
  • fuzzy sets in operations research and manufacturing
  • fuzzy database mining and financial forecasting
  • fuzzy neural networks
  • fuzzy systems in machine learning
  • fuzzy systems in video games
  • evolutionary and hybrid systems
  • explainable AI
  • intelligent agents and ambient intelligence
  • learning, adaptive, and evolvable fuzzy systems


Conference Program

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Explainable Fuzzy AI Challenge (XFC 2022)

Session Chairs:
  • Tim Arnett
    PhD. Thales Avionics, Inc. Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Javier Viana
    PhD Candidate University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Lynn Pickering
    PhD Student University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Brandon Kunkel
    Data Engineer Pieces.app Cincinnati, OH, USA

More details about the session can be found here.

Recent Approaches Toward Lattice Computing

Session Chairs:
  • Peter Sussner
    University of Campinas, Brazil
  • Vassilis Kaburlasos
    International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece

More details about the session can be found here.

Interval Uncertainty

Session Chairs:
  • Martine Ceberio
    University of Texas at El Paso
  • Vladik Kreinovich
    University of Texas at El Paso

Further information on the Conference Program will be available after the paper reviews are completed.



Information for Authors

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published as a Springer volume. The conference proceedings will be available in SpringerLink.

Submissions

Authors should prepare a manuscript of no more than 12 pages, including results, figures, and references, using the Springer Verlag contributed book style in LaTeX (SVMult) or MS Word.

Please refer to the Manuscript Preparation Guidelines that provide detailed instructions for preparing your manuscript.

Authors should submit a PDF file through the EasyChair submission link. If accepted, the final version of the submission will include either the LaTeX source or MS Word, with all figures, and the generated PDF.

If the manuscript is meant for a special session, the title you enter into the EasyChair system must have the name of the special session at the beginning (session_title: paper_title). For instance, if you are submitting a paper entitled "An Image Processing Algorithm to Detect Defects in Optical Fibers" to a special session on "Image and Signal Processing", the title you enter into the EasyChair system should be: "IMAGE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING: An Image Processing Algorithm to Detect Defects in Optical Fibers". In addition, please submit your contribution to the organizer of the Special Session.

We strongly encourage students to submit papers under the mentorship of their faculty advisors. Special best paper awards will be presented at the conference banquet to recognize the accomplishments of students. To qualify, a student or a group of students must be the primary author(s) of the paper. The papers will be judged based on both manuscript content and presentation quality.

Event Speakers

Information will be available after the paper reviews are completed.



Important Dates

Special session proposal deadline

January 10, 2022

Student activities: Explainable Fuzzy AI Challenge Kick-off

January 18, 2022

Special session notification

January 25, 2022

Extended regular papers deadline

February 28, 2022

Regular paper notification deadline

March 25, 2022

Author registration deadline

April 15, 2022

Conference dates

May 31-June 3, 2022

Event Schedule

Information will be available after the paper reviews are completed.



Pre-Conference Workshop

15th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProD 2022

Date

May 30, 2022

Organizers

Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University
El Paso, Texas 79968-0518, USA

Constraint programming techniques are important components of intelligent systems. They constitute a declarative and efficient methodology to represent and solve many practical problems. They have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks security, chemistry, and biology. Despite the proved usefulness of these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life applications. One reason is the perceived lack of effective communication between constraint programming experts and domain practitioners about constraints, in general, and their use in decision making, in particular

More details: https://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/coprod22.html

Conference Venue

The conference will be hosted at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Over the last decade Halifax has emerged as one of the most desirable summer and autumn tourist destinations, see discoverhalifaxns.com

The organizers are continuously monitoring Covid-19 related travel restrictions. We wish to proceed cautiously and within the parameters of public health guidelines to ensure health and safety of all the participants. NAFIPS 2022 will take place in a dual mode: in-person and virtual, allowing flexible participation.

How to Get to Halifax

  • Halifax has one international airport, the award-winning Stanfield International Airport, located just 30mins from the downtown core.
  • Halifax Stanfield offers roughly 150 weekly flights from Toronto, 70 from montreal and 85 from Ottawa. With daily flights from Boston, New York, Newark, Philadelphia and Orlando.
  • Halifax Stanfield International Airport is also the only airport in Atlantic Canada to offer U.S pre-clearance, making travel that much easier.
  • HALIFAX AIRPORT SHUTTLE: Maritime Bus offers the Halifax Airport Shuttle, making it even easier to get to and from the airport stress-free.

Saint Mary's University, Halifax

Whether you’re a local looking for staycation ideas, or visiting from further away, we invite you to discover the heart & soul of Halifax.

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COVID-19 restriction updates.

Hotels

Here are some nearby hotels, there are many others.

Hotel 1

The Westin

0.4 Mile from the Venue

Hotel 2

DoubleTree by Hilton

0.5 Mile from the Venue

Hotel 3

Four Points by Sheraton

0.6 Mile from the Venue

Sponsors



NAFIPS 2022 Committees

General Chair

  • Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada

  • Program Committee Chair

  • Scott Dick, University of Alberta, Canada

  • Awards Commitee Chair

  • Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
  • Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

  • Local Organization Chair

  • Raavee Kadam, Saint Mary's University, Canada

  • Program Committee:

  • Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
  • Ildar Batyrshin, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Barnabas Bede, DigiPen, USA
  • Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
  • Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
  • Juan Carlos Figueroa Garcia, Universidad Distrital, Bogota, Colombia
  • Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada
  • Victor Raskin, Purdue University, USA

  • Webmaster:

  • Somesh Srivastava, Saint Mary's University, Canada
  • Vinay Govindan, Saint Mary's University, Canada
  • F.A.Q

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