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Call for Papers
FCTA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Scope

Fuzzy computation is a field that encompasses the theory and application of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic to the solution of information processing, systems analysis and synthesis problems. Bolstered by information technology developments, the extraordinary growth of fuzzy computation in recent years has led to major applications in fields ranging from medical diagnosis and automated learning to image understanding, decision and systems control. This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of fuzzy systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields.

Conference Topics

  • Fuzzy control in robotics: sensors, navigation and coordination
  • Fuzzy hardware, fuzzy architectures
  • Soft computing and intelligent agents
  • Mathematical foundations: Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic
  • Type-2 Fuzzy Logic
  • Approximate reasoning and fuzzy inference
  • Fuzzy Systems Design, Modeling and Control
  • System identification and fault detection
  • Fuzzy information retrieval and data mining
  • Fuzzy information processing, fusion, text mining
  • Learning and adaptive fuzzy systems
  • Complex fuzzy systems
  • Pattern recognition: Fuzzy clustering and classifiers
  • Fuzzy image, speech and signal processing, vision and multimedia
  • Industrial, financial and medical applications
  • Neuro-fuzzy systems
  • Real-time Learning of Fuzzy and Neuro-fuzzy Systems
IJCCI Keynote Speakers
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy
Reinhard Viertl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a SCI Series book.
A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of Springer's LNCS TCCI Journal.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

Important Dates

Conference Date: 5 - 7 October, 2012

Regular Paper Submission: May 7, 2012 (expired)
Authors Notification (regular papers): June 13, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 5, 2012

Position Paper Submission: June 14, 2012
Authors Notification (position papers): July 2, 2012
Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: July 23, 2012
Secretariat

FCTA Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8638
e-mail: fcta.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.fcta.ijcci.org

Venue

The conference will be held at the Barceló Sants Hotel Barcelona, Spain.
The new Barceló Sants hotel is now taking off. Get ready to enjoy a unique trip in our completely renovated Orbital Rooms.
Located just on top of “Sants Estation” (now Sants Orbital Station), it has direct access to AVE (high speed train), metro and train network.  

PROGRAM CHAIR

António Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Program Committee

Roseli A. Francelin Romero, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Jinhai Cai , University of South Australia, Australia
Daniel Antonio Callegari, PUC-RS Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Heloisa Camargo, UFSCar, Brazil
Alejandro Carrasco Muñoz, University of Seville, Spain
Gregory Chavez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
France Cheong, RMIT University, Australia
Valerie Cross , Miami University, United States
Belén Curto Diego, Universidad De Salamanca, Spain
Martina Dankova, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Bijan Davvaz, Yazd University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Kudret Demirli , Concordia University, Canada
Ioan Despi, University of New England, Australia
Scott Dick, University of Alberta, Canada
József Dombi, University of Szeged, Institute of Informatics, Hungary
Yoshikazu Fukuyama, Fuji Electric Corporate Ltd., Japan
Jonathan Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Tom Gedeon, Australian National University, Australia
Alexander Gegov, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Brunella Gerla, University of Insubria, Italy
Donald H. Kraft, Colorado Technical University, United States
Masafumi Hagiwara, Keio University, Japan
Chang-Wook Han, Dong-Eui University, Korea, Republic of
Lars Hildebrand, University of Dortmund, Germany
Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, United States
Robert  John , De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Uzay Kaymak, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Hassan  Kazemian, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
László T.  Kóczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Rudolf Kruse, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Kang Li, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Qilian Liang, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Tsung-Chih Lin, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy
Ludmil Mikhailov, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Javier Montero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Susana Muñoz Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Hiroshi Nakajima, Omron Corporation, Japan
Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Raúl Pérez, University of Granada, Spain
Sanja Petrovic , University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
David Picado, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Valentina Plekhanova, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Daniela  Popescu, University of Oradea, Romania
Daowen Qiu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Antonello Rizzi , University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Ignacio Rojas Ruiz, University of Granada, Spain
Mehdi Roopaei, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Lazaros S. Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Luciano Sanchez, Oviedo University, Spain
Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Igor Skrjanc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vicenc Torra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Dat Tran, University of Canberra, Australia
Christian Wagner, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dongrui  Wu , GE Global Research, United States
Jianqiang Yi, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hao Ying, Wayne State University, United States
Tina Yu, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Huiyu Zhou, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann, ELITE (European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering), Germany