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EUSFLAT Working Group on Philosophical Foundations

Aims and Scope

The aim of the EUSFLAT Working Group on Philosophical Foundations is to motivate philosophers, educators,and scientists, to approach the roots of Soft Computing, as well as its results in real applications. To this end, this working group will initially consists in
  • A Forum for the analysis of the grounds and methodologies of Soft Computing and, in particular, of Fuzzy Logic and Computing with Words/Meanings, where new points of view could be openly and quickly discussed, and from which some scientific work/publications could follow up.
  • Efforts to create an adequate environment to interest educators, and specially High School teachers, to approach Fuzzy Logic, in principle only to lenghten their horizons of knowledge.
  • The organization of Special Sessions in those Conferences where it might be possible, to spread off the knowledge of Soft Computing to new areas of either research or direct application of its methods.

Publications

R. Seising (Ed.) Views on Fuzzy Sets and Systems from Different Perspectives. Philosophy and Logic, Criticisms and Applications. Vol. 243 of Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, 2009. 580 pages. ISBN 978-3-540-93801-9.

R. Seising. The Fuzzification of Systems. The Genesis of Fuzzy Set Theory and its Initial Applications - Developments up to the 1970s. Vol. 216 of Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, 2007. 412 pages. ISBN 978-3-540-71794-2.

Newsletter Philosophy and Soft Computing

Events

1st International Seminar on Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences, Mieres, Spain, September 10-11, 2009.

Coordinators

Name/Affiliation E-Mail/WWW
Rudolf Seising
European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain
Settimo Termini
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

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