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FSTA 2014, Twelfth international conferenceon Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications

The twelfth international conference on Fuzzy Set The-ory and Applications was held again in Liptovský Ján, SlovakRepublic, on January 26-31, 2014.

Invited plenary lectures and paralel sessions took placein one of the most scenic valleys of the Low Tatras, where120 participants from 15 countries, including about 30 PhDstudents, met and created a great atmosphere.

High scientific level was guaranteed by E.P.Klement andR.Mesiar as chair persons of the conference.

The Conference Scientific Programme consisted of specialinvited plenary lectures presented by H. Bustince, S. Greco(substituted by R.Mesiar), B. Jayaram, E. Lehrer (substitutedby A. Mesiarová-Zemánková), A. Rusinowska, S. Saminger-Platz and R. Viertl.

An unforgetable part of FSTA 2014 was the traditionalConcert of participants where the world composers pieceswere performed by FSTA participants, including A. Dvurecen-skij, M. Grabisch, R.Hudson and B. Riecan, among others.

Similarly, the social event (with options to wellness cen-tre Permon and open-air museum of the traditional Slovakvillage in Pribylina, including the tasting of some traditionalSlovak food) was an attractive part of the FSTA conference.

Organization took place under the auspices of the Slo-vak University of Technology in Bratislava, the Armed ForcesAcademy of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik in LiptovskýMikuláš and SIPKES.

Ladislav ŠipekyChair of the Organizing Committee

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ESTYLF 2014, 17th Spanish Conference onFuzzy Logic and Technologies

Conference opening.

The 17th Spanish Conference on Fuzzy Technologies andLogic ESTYLF 2014 (in Spanish, “XVII Congreso Español so-bre Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy”) was organized in Zaragoza,Spain, in February 5-7, 2014. This series of conferences isdevoted to different topics related to the theory and applica-tions of the Fuzzy Set Theory. The more recent editions ofthe conference held biennially, although the oldest editionswere celebrated on an annual basis.

Enric Trillas (European Centre of Soft Computing) wasthe honorific president of the conference and gave the open-ing talk. The president of the organizing committee wasFernando Bobillo (University of Zaragoza). The presidentsof the program committee were Humberto Bustince (PublicUniversity of Navarra) and Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Univer-sity of Granada), whereas Francisco Javier Fernández (PublicUniversity of Navarra) was the special sessions chair.

Joan Torrens during his plenary talk.

The conference hosted 137 registered participants be-longing to 43 different affiliations, including 5 non-Spanish

universities. After a rigorous process of peer-to-peer review,109 high-quality papers were accepted for presentation. Pre-sented papers were distributed in 16 special sessions and 4regular sessions.

The conference program also included some invited ple-nary lectures given by three distinguished keynote speakers,namely:

• Enric Trillas (European Centre for Soft Computing):“Meaning as a magnitude: fuzzy sets”.

• Joan Torrens (University of the Balearic Islands):“Fuzzy implication functions: a walk through func-tional equations”.

• Javier Montero (Complutense University of Madrid):“The procedure as a modelization principle in some de-cision problems”.

Conference banquet.

The Granada Excellence Network of Innovation Labora-tories (GENIL) funded a special award to the best paper hav-ing a PhD candidate, or a researcher having recently obtainedhis/her PhD degree, as the main author. The winner of theprize was Gabriel Mattioli (Technical University of Catalo-nia).

The conference proceedings are available online in theconference website (http://estylf2014.unizar.es).The language of most of the papers is Spanish, but 30 ofthem were written in English.

The social program included a guided tour through thehistorical center of Zaragoza and a banquet in a typicalAragonese restaurant. During the dinner, a special recog-nition was given to some researchers in commemoration oftheir first publications in fuzzy logic, honoring their 25 yearsof dedication to the research in the field. The awarded re-searchers were Nùria Agell (Ramon Llull University), Alberto

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José Bugarín (University of Santiago de Compostela), Ed-uard Montseny (Technical University of Catalonia), José Án-gel Olivas (University of Castilla-La Mancha), and Jordi Re-casens (Technical University of Catalonia).

The next edition of the conference ESTYLF 2016 is sched-

uled for the first months of 2016 (end of January or begin-ning of February) and will take place in the very beautiful cityof San Sebastián. It will be a good occasion for researchersinterested on fuzzy logic to meet and celebrate together the25th anniversary of the first ESTYLF conference.

Conference banquet.

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ISCAMI 2014, 15th International StudentConferences on Applied Mathematics andInformatics

15th International Student Conferences on AppliedMathematics and Informatics (ISCAMI 2014) was again or-ganized jointly by the Institute for Research and Applicationof Fuzzy Modeling (University of Ostrava) and by the De-partment of mathematics and descriptive geometry (SlovakUniversity of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering,) inMalenovice - a beautiful village situated on the root of thehighest peak in Beskydy mountains near Ostrava.

In 2014, ISCAMI (see http://irafm.osu.cz/iscami) was for the third time organized jointly with the Sum-mer School on Applied Mathematics and Informatics, whichmeans that there were three separate tutorials on distincttopics given by leading European scholars, namely:

• Humberto Bustince (Public University of Navarra,Spain), Penalty functions - Application to image pro-cessing and decision making;

• Francisco Balibrea Gallego (Universidad de Murcia,Spain), On Fibonacci sequence of numbers and rep-resentations of numbers in different bases;

• Libor Behounek (University of Ostrava & Academy ofScicences of Czech Republic, Czech Republic), Intro-duction to multiple-valued logics.

Both joined events were strongly supported by A-Math-Net project (reg. nr. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0010 of the Edu-cation for Competitiveness Operational Programme) that fi-nancially supported participants who did not have to pay anyfees and got the accommodation with full board for free. Letus note that all together, there were 73 participants from 8countries (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Latvia, Poland,Spain, Hungary, Austria, Egypt), 53 talks and 3 tutorials.

We all are already looking forward to ISCAMI 2015 thatwill be organized in Slovakia, in a beautiful village Kocovceca 100km far from Bratislava, April 23-26.

Petra Hod’áková (Organizing Chair, University of Ostrava)Jirí Kupka (Programme Chair, University of Ostrava),

Martin Štepnicka (Financial Chair, University of Ostrava)and Radko Mesiar (General Chair, Slovak University of

Technology).

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ABLAT 2014, International Symposium onAggregation on Bounded Lattices

Initialed by the AGOP working group, Karadeniz Tech-nical University in Trabzon and Slovak University of Tech-nology in Bratislava have organized a symposium ABLAT(Aggregation on Bounded Lattices). It was held in Trabzon(Turkey) from June 16 to June 20.

More than 40 participants from 10 countries were hostedby KTU in Trabzon - Capital of the Black Sea Region in Turkey.Invited lectures were given by Bernard De Baets, Miguel Cou-ceiro, Mustafa Demirci, Djavvat Khadjiev, Radko Mesiar and

Burhan Türksen, and they have covered several aspects of ag-gregation, ranging from classification issues to applications,including algebraic and topological basics of the aggregationtheory on lattices and posets.

Up to the rich scientific program, there was enough spacefor faithful discussion of ABLAT participants during the socialevents, with the top being the visit of the famous SümelaMonastery.

Based on the excellent experience with this first issue ofABLAT, its next issue is planned to be organized in 2016, asa complementary scientific event to AGOP Summer Schools(note that the next AGOP issue is organized by the Uni-versity of Katowice, Poland, under the guidance of MichalBaczynski, and is planned for July 2015).