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Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

BISC SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP IN PHILOSOPHY OF SOFT COMPUTING

 

 

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VESA A. NISKANEN, Chairman

Ph. D., Docent, University Lecturer, IFSA Advisor
University of Helsinki, Department of Economics and Management, Finland

Address: UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, DEPT. OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT, P.O. BOX 27, 00014 HELSINKI, FINLAND
Phone: +358-40-503-2031 (Mobile, GSM)
Fax: +358-9-191-58096
Email: vesa.a.niskanen@helsinki.fi
http://www.helsinki.fi/~niskanen/

Objectives

According to prof. Lotfi Zadeh, more philosophical issues should be considered within Soft Computing. Therefore, he suggested that I would establish a BISC Special Interest Group which will concentrate on this subject matter. The objectives of this Interest Group include (but are not limited to):

1. Ontological aspects of Soft Computing.

2. Concept formation in Soft Computing: Exegesis and definitions.

3. Theory formation in Soft Computing: Theories and models.

4. Epistemological aspects of Soft Computing.

5. Logical aspects of Soft Computing.

6. Ethical aspects of Soft Computing.

7. Aspects of Social Philosophy in Soft Computing

8. Aspects of Philosophy of Education in Soft Computing.

 

Activities:
Finnish-Swedish-Japanese Joint Seminar on Soft Computing, Helsinki - Stockholm 1998 Summer School on Soft Computing in Intelligent Systems, Helsinki 2000
Bisc Seminars; PowerPoint versions Summer School on Soft Computing, Helsinki 2001
Invited session in IFSA '01 Invited session in KES '01
Special session in KES '02 Special session in IFSA '03
Soft Computing Journal (Springer), special issue on "Philosophy of soft computing", in progress. Vesa A. Niskanen: "Soft Computing Methods in Human Sciences", Springer. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 134 (270 pp., to appear in 2003-2004).

Advisory Board

Honorary Member: Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA.

Members:

Prof. Antonio Di Nola, University of Salerno, Italy
Prof. Patrik Eklund, University of Umea, Sweden.
Prof. Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan.
Prof. Mustafa Gunes, University of Dokuz Eylul, Turkey
Prof. Kaoru Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.
Prof. Laszlo Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
Prof. Jorma K. Mattila, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
Prof. Hideto Nakajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Dr. Masoud Nikravesh, BISC Group, UC Berkeley, USA.
Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada.
Prof. Henri Prade, University Paul Sabatier, France.
Prof. Burhan Turksen, University of Toronto, Canada.
Prof. Junzo Watada, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan.

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