Special Session on Fuzzy Extensions and Its Application on Decision Making http://scm.ulster.ac.uk/FLINS2018/ FLINS 2018 is the thirteenth in a series of conferences on computational intelligence systems with focus on Data Science and Knowledge Engineering for Sensing Decision Support. The conference will be held in Belfast, the birthplace of Titanic and the capital city of Northern Ireland, UK. FLINS 2018 proceedings will be again published as a book by the World Scientific and it will be again included in the ISI proceedings as previous ones, as well as be included in EI Compendex for indexing. Moreover, special issues of SCI indexed journals will be devoted to a strictly refereed selection of extended papers presented at FLINS 2018.
Scope Decision Making is a common task related to intelligent and complex activities in which human beings face situations in which they must choose among different alternatives by means of reasoning and mental processes. Such decision situations usually involve different types of uncertainty according to their nature. To deal with uncertainty in decision making problems, different methodologies and theories have been proposed in the literature, such as fuzzy sets, fuzzy linguistic approach, hesitant fuzzy sets, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets, type 2 fuzzy sets, soft sets and so on as well as a wide range of tools, operations and decision models have been proposed to deal with decision problems under uncertainty. However, the advances and the appearance of new challenges always imply novel mathematical foundations and new decision models to be applied in different decision fields dealing with uncertainty, such as multi-criteria decision analysis, group decision making, evaluation processes, etc.
Objectives and topics: This invited session aims at providing an opportunity for researchers working both fuzzy and fuzzy extended theories within decision making to discuss and share new trends and ideas, original research results and practical experiences. More specifically, we expect you to have any contribution with the focus on the use of fuzzy extensions applied to decision making. Potential topics (but not limited) of this special session are as follows: Foundations and recent advances on fuzzy theory and its extensions (hesitant fuzzy sets, hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets, probabilistic hesitant fuzzy sets, soft sets, …) Dealing with fuzzy extensions to represent preferences in decision making Handling incomplete information in decision making Multi-criteria and group decision making, including large-scale decision problems.
Consensus reaching processes in group decision making under uncertainty Choice, Ranking and Sorting processes in decision making under uncertainty Decision support tools dealing with fuzzy and fuzzy extensions Dealing with fuzzy extensions in applications, such as engineering evaluation, emergency events, resource management and transfer, industry applications, sensory evaluation, evaluation, recommendation, investments applications and risk assessment, …
Important Dates Full paper submission Acceptance notification Camera-ready paper submission
January 30, 2018 March 20, 2018 April 10, 2018
Please send an e‐mail expressing your intention to submit a paper, including authors’ information, and a tentative title, by December 15th, 2017. E‐mail:
[email protected]. Paper Submission http://scm.ulster.ac.uk/FLINS2018/submission/
Organizer contacts: Dr Rosa Mª Rodríguez
[email protected] University of Granada Granada, Spain
Prof José C. R. Alcantud
[email protected] Universidad de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain
Prof Luis Martínez
[email protected] University of Jaen Jaen, Spain
