CfP: Interpretabile Fuzzy Systems - Special Session @ WCCI 2010
Corrado Mencar
CFP: Special Session on "Interpretable Fuzzy Systems: Theory and
Applications" @ 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence
(WCCI 2010)
Barcelona, 18-23 July 2010
http://sites.google.com/site/ifswcci2010
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Description of the session topic
The aim of this special session is to provide a forum to discuss and
disseminate recent and significant research efforts on Interpretable
Fuzzy Systems, dealing with current challenges and new trends on this
topic (both on theoretical and practical aspects).
Interpretability is widely acknowledged as the main advantage of Fuzzy
Systems against other black-box models such as conventional Neural
Networks. Intelligent system design moves towards a more human-centric
perspective, where users understand and rely on the knowledge embodied
in such systems. In the recent past there have been many papers
related to interpretability issues in Fuzzy Logic what proofs that the
session topic still remains a hot research topic.
In earlier research on Fuzzy Systems, the main goal was achieving
models with high interpretability, mainly working with expert
knowledge and a few simple linguistic rules. Then, researchers
realized that expert knowledge was not enough to deal with complex
problems, and the use of techniques to learn knowledge from data
became a hot topic. As a result, from 1990 to 2000, the main effort
was made regarding the accuracy of the final model, building complex
models with high accuracy, but often disregarding the model
interpretability. Nowadays, a new challenge lies in designing Fuzzy
Systems that acquire accurate, robust and interpretable knowledge from
data.
The human-centric character of the interpretability feature poses new
challenges on Fuzzy System research. How can it be formalized
computationally? How can it be evaluated? What are the dimensions of
interpretability (structural/semantic, descriptive/explanatory, etc.)?
How to design interpretable Fuzzy Systems? These and other research
topics will be the focus of this special session.
Scope of the session
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Characterizations of interpretability in Fuzzy Systems
Learning interpretable Fuzzy Systems
Interpretability constraints in Fuzzy Modeling
Evaluating interpretability of Fuzzy Systems
Improving interpretability of Fuzzy Systems
Theoretical aspects of the interpretability/accuracy tradeoff
Design issues of interpretable Fuzzy Systems
Interpretability vs. complexity, accuracy, robustness, etc.
Interpretable Neuro-Fuzzy Systems and Genetic Fuzzy Systems
Multi-objective approaches for interpretable and accurate Fuzzy
Systems.
Interpretability in control, decision support, planning, etc.
Deadlines
Paper submission: January 31, 2010.
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 15, 2010
Camera-ready papers: May 2, 2010
Papers have to be submitted through the official FUZZ-IEEE web site
(http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/fuzzieee2010/upload.php) but
selecting our special session. Papers submitted for special sessions
are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the rest of
contributed papers. All accepted papers will be included in the
proceedings of the FUZZ-IEEE 2010.
Organizers
José María Alonso (jose....@softcomputing.es)
Corrado Mencar (men...@di.uniba.it)
Ciro Castiello (cast...@di.uniba.it)
Luis Magdalena (luis.ma...@softcomputing.es)