November 29 - 30, 2001

Soft computing is a new paradigm in computing based on a creative fusion of computing techniques like fuzzy computing, neural and genetic computing and similar, characterized by dealing with uncertainty, vagueness, imprecision and sub-optimality and by inspiration by human problem solving and learning. Its aim is to solve problems for which classical mathematical methods are difficult or impossible to apply due to enormous amount of data or to lack of theoretical background. Foundations include mathematical fuzzy logic, theory of approximation, non-standard models of computation, fuzzy database theory and similar. Data mining is also relevant.

The first two-day SOFSEM workshop on Soft Computing took place at SOFSEM 2000 in Milovy, Czech Republic. The workshop proceedings were published as a special issue of Neural Networks World (vol. 10 issue 3). The participants agreed that this was a successful meeting. The Soft Computing workshop at SOFSEM 2001 promises to be even more successful and it is planned also to be the kick-off meeting of the newly created ERCIM working group on soft computing (provided the working group is approved in the meantime, which is very probable).

Interested persons are invited to register (whenever registration details will be known), making clear if they register for the whole SOFSEM or only for the workshop. Submit papers contributed to the workshop (max. 10 pages) to P. Hajek (hajek@cs.cas.cz).

WORKSHOP DEADLINES

The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a special issue of Neural Networks World and will be distributed at the workshop.

Program committee: P. Hajek (chair), R. Kruse, D. Mundici, P. Vojtas.

Invited speakers:
S. Jenei: Inference in Rule-Based Systems by Interpolation and Extrapolation Revisited
(and possibly others).

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