Fuzzy Sets, Systems and Decision Making
A section of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390).
Section Information
The Fuzzy Sets, Systems and Decision Making section of Mathematics aims at disseminating and communicating fuzzy-driven scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to academia, industry, and the public worldwide. The concept of a fuzzy set, on which fuzzy logic (FL) has been built, has been proven to play an important role in (1) modeling and representing imprecise and uncertain linguistic human concepts; (2) mimicking human thinking and decision making; and (3) researchers and practitioners developing tools to model behaviors in forms that are easy to understand and implement in computer systems.
In practice, high performance and the quality of results are only achievable if the research community concentrates on filling the gaps in theoretical knowledge, and practitioners put the latest developments to use in their applications to address practical problems. Thus, this Section aims at attracting the latest results from researchers working on theoretical advances in fuzzy sets, systems and decision making and corresponding impactful industry applications. These results can stem from the generation of new theoretical knowledge on the discipline itself, or via the informed design of customized fuzzy/hybrid-based solutions to solve high-impact (e.g., humanitarian, environmental or economical) interdisciplinary applications.
Submissions are welcome on (but are not limited to) the following topics of interest:
- Theory:
- Mathematics of fuzzy sets and their extensions (intuitionistic fuzzy sets; hesitant fuzzy sets; type-2 fuzzy sets);
- Type-1 fuzzy and/or type-2 logic/models/applications;
- Theoretical analysis and hybridizations in FL (type-1 and type-2 FL);
- Fuzzy control;
- Fuzzy neural systems;
- Genetic fuzzy systems;
- Fuzzy modeling/Intelligent data analysis;
- Fuzzy database mining and financial forecasting;
- FL-based decision modeling;
- Decision making under uncertainty;
- Consensus modeling;
- Opinion evolution;
- Aggregation operators of uncertain information;
- Adaptive fuzzy systems/uncertainty management;
- Computational intelligence/learning;
- Pattern recognition/image processing;
- Soft computing in database management and information retrieval;
- Applications in:
- Finance (FinTech);
- Ambient Intelligence;
- Smart cities and smart environments;
- Social networks;
- Internet of Things and Internet of Beings;
- Precision agriculture and remote sensing;
- Optimal use of lands;
- Sustainability in rural communities;
- Intelligent and safe transports;
- Computational biology, healthcare and medicine;
- Engineering design and computer-aided engineering;
- Management and business;
- Education;
- Information retrieval and recommender systems;
- Control/robotics/computer vision;
- Bioinformatics;
- Biomedical applications;
- Computational experiments/case studies;
- Human-centric interfaces/visualization;
- Learning, adaptive, and evolvable fuzzy systems.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana
Section Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Fuzzy Logic and Computational Intelligence (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Recent Advances in Fuzzy Set Theory and Their Application in Sustainable Decision Making (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Computing Mathematics with Fuzzy Sets (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Hybrid Metaheuristic Algorithms for Portfolio Optimization and Its Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2023)
- Fuzzy Sets in Business Management, Finance, and Economics II (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Control Systems (Deadline: 20 July 2023)
- Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence Systems (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- New Trends in Fuzzy Sets and Decision Making Analysis (Deadline: 31 July 2023)
- Practice and Application of Emergency Management in Social Systems: Mathematical Modeling and the Use of Information Technology (Deadline: 20 August 2023)
- Mathematical Methods for Decision Making and Optimization (Deadline: 31 August 2023)
- Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Systems (Deadline: 31 August 2023)
- Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing—In Memory of Lotfi A. Zadeh (Deadline: 31 August 2023)
- Novel Approaches in Fuzzy Sets and Metric Spaces (Deadline: 31 August 2023)
- Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision Support Systems (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Fuzzy Decision Making and Soft Computing Applications: Future Perspectives (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Topological Study on Fuzzy Metric Spaces and Their Generalizations (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Recent Advances on Fuzzy Topology (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Applications of Fuzzy Modeling in Risk Management (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Fuzzy Decision Making and Applications (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Recent Advances in Fuzzy Deep Learning for Uncertain Medicine Data (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Mathematical Modelling and Multi-Criteria Optimisation in Engineering (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Advances in Fuzzy Decision Theory and Applications (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Mathematical, Statistical, and Soft Computing Methods for Uncertainty Management (Deadline: 15 December 2023)
- Hesitant Fuzzy Set and Its Variants for Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (Deadline: 30 December 2023)
- Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Numbers, Fuzzy Modeling, and Their Applications in Management and Engineering (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances and Applications on Fuzzy Logic for Decision Making Processes (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- 40 Years of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Multi-Criteria Decision Making and Data Mining, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advanced Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Multiple Criteria Decision Making II (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Fuzzy Convex Structures and Some Related Topics (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Computational Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Computing for Data Analytics (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Advances in Genetic Programming and Soft Computing (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Aggregation Functions and Indistinguishability Operators: Theory and Applications (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Various Generalizations of Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications in Engineering and Management (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Advanced Methods in Fuzzy Control and Their Applications (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Intuitionistic Fuzziness and Parallelism: Theory and Applications (Deadline: 1 February 2024)
- Applications of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Fuzzy Group Decision Making and Intelligent Systems: Recent Trends and Methodologies (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Decision Making under Uncertainty in Soft Computing (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Mathematical Modelling in Decision Making Analysis (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Fuzzy Logic Applications in Traffic and Transportation Engineering (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Advances and Application of Fuzzy Sets, Decision Making and Soft Computing (Deadline: 31 March 2024)
- Optimization Theory and Applications in Engineering, Management and Other Fields (Deadline: 30 April 2024)
- Advanced Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in Operational Research (Deadline: 30 May 2024)
- Soft Computing Techniques and Mathematical Modelling for Complex Dynamic Systems (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Mathematical Applications of Complex Evidence Theory in Engineering (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Multi-Attribute Decision Making and Intelligent Computing in Smart Governance (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Advances and Applications of Soft Computing (Deadline: 6 June 2024)