Re: IFSA/NAFIPS 2013
Dear Baker, dear colleagues,
the annual face-to-face meeting is mentioned in Section 11
of our "Procedures and Policies", I guess this part was given
by IEEE guidelines.
Kind regards
Nathalie
On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Ralph Baker Kearfott wrote:
> Vladik,
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> Where is the requirement for one-a-year face-to-face meetings?
>
> Baker
>
> On 12/29/2012 04:08 PM, Kreinovich, Vladik wrote:
>> Dear Friends,
>> This is the big meeting of fuzzy community, biannual Congress oif the International Fuzzy Systems Associations, which will be held together with the annual conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society.
>> As many of you know, fuzzy conferences always welcome interval talks, especially when they are fuzzy-related. However, since interval techniques are used to process fuzzy data, purely interval talks are also welcome. The conference
>> organizers asked to stongly encourage all interval folks to attend. This conference will attract many fuzzy researchers from all over the world, so this is an exceppent opportunity for us to teach manyy fuzzy folks who may be interested in
>> using our results and our algorithms -- and/or listen to interesting interval-related challenges that arise from their problems.
>> There will be a special interval mini-symposium (at IFSA minis are called focused sessions).
>> One more important issue. As you know, we are currently developing the IEEE interval standard. By IEEE rules, we are required to have face-to-face meetings at least one a year. On even years, we meet at SCAN conferences, on odd years, we
>> meet at different related conference. In 2013, we decided to have our face-to-face meeting at IFSA/NAFIPS conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to make it easier for Baker Kearfott and other North American members of the interval
>> standard working group to meet (many were unable to come to Novosibirsk for SCAN'2012).
>> This will be an important meeting, since we are (hopefully) in the final stages of forming the draft standard, several portions have already been voted on, so important discussions are expected.
>> While we will be in Canada discussing the standard, why not use this opportunity to also present discuss our results at a highly visible conference.
>> The deadline for IFSA/NAFIPS is January 28, this will be the big event, we hope to see you all in Canada!
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>> *From:* Witold Pedrycz [wpedrycz@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>>
>> My best wishes of a Happy & Prosperous New Year!
>>
>> Let us all make the year 2013 a year of the upcoming IFSA Congress.
>>
>> At this stage, it becomes essential to promote the event and remind our research community about it.
>>
>> I am attaching the most recent CFP, which you may wish to use.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> Witold
>>
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