The 2005 BISC International Special Event-BISCSE'05 "Forging the frontiers" was held in the University of California, Berkeley, "Where fuzzy logic began", from November 3-6, 2005. The successful applications of fuzzy logic and it's rapid growth suggest that the impact of fuzzy logic will be felt increasingly in coming years. Fuzzy logic is likely to play an especially important role in science and engineering, but eventually its influence may extend much farther. In many ways, fuzzy logic represents a significant paradigm shift in the aims of computing - a shift which reflects the fact that the human mind, unlike present day computers, possesses a remarkable ability to store and process information which is pervasively imprecise, uncertain and lacking in categoricity.
The chapters of the book are evolved from presentations made by selected participants at the meeting and organized in two books. The papers include reports from the different front of soft computing in various industries and address the problems of different fields of research in fuzzy logic, fuzzy set and soft computing. The book provides a collection of forty four (44) articles in two volumes.
Web Intelligence, World Knowledge and Fuzzy Logic.- Towards Human Consistent Linguistic Summarization of Time Series via Computing with Words and Perceptions.- Evolution of Fuzzy Logic: From Intelligent Systems and Computation to Human Mind.- Pioneers of Vagueness, Haziness, and Fuzziness in the 20thCentury1.- Selected Results of the Global Survey on Research, Instruction and Development Work with Fuzzy Systems.- Fuzzy Models and Interpolation.- Computing with Antonyms.- Morphic Computing: Concept and Foundation.- A Nonlinear Functional Analytic Framework for Modeling and Processing Fuzzy Sets.- Concept-Based Search and Questionnaire Systems.- Towards Perception Based Time Series Data Mining.- Veristic Variables and Approximate Reasoning for Intelligent Semantic Web Systems.- Uncertainty in Computational Perception and~Cognition.- Computational Intelligence for Geosciences and Oil Exploration.- Hierarchical Fuzzy Classification of Remote Sensing Data.- Real World Applications of a Fuzzy Decision Model Based on Relationships between Goals (DMRG).- Applying Fuzzy Decision and Fuzzy Similarity in Agricultural Sciences.- Soft Computing in the Chemical Industry: Current State of the Art and Future Trends.- Identifying Aggregation Weights of Decision Criteria: Application of Fuzzy Systems to Wood Product Manufacturing.- On the Emergence of Fuzzy Logics from Elementary Percepts: the Checklist Paradigm and the Theory of Perceptions.
