Fuzzy Sets Theory and Its Applications

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Dear Colleagues,

The concept of fuzzy sets introduced by L.A. Zadeh in 1965 tried to extend the classical set theory. It is well-known that a classical set corresponds to an indicator function whose values are only taken to be 0 and 1. With the aid of membership functions associated with a fuzzy set, each element in a set allows one to take any values between 0 and 1 that can be treated as the degree of membership. This kind of imprecision draws forth a multitude of applications. This topic will focus on the original research that reflects the theoretical developments and applicable results.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Foundation of fuzzy sets (fuzzy arithmetic operations, extension principle, possibility measures, etc.).
• Fuzzy mathematics (fuzzy topology, fuzzy real analysis, fuzzy integral and differential equations, fuzzy metric spaces, fuzzy algebra, etc.). 
• Fuzzy logics (many-valued logics, type-2 fuzzy logics, intuitionistic fuzzy logics, etc.). 
• Fuzzy statistical analysis (fuzzy random variables, fuzzy regression analysis, fuzzy reliability analysis, fuzzy times series, fuzzy Markov process, etc.). 
• Hybrid systems (fuzzy control, fuzzy neural networks, genetic fuzzy systems, fuzzy intelligent systems, fuzzy biomedical systems, fuzzy chaotic systems, fuzzy information systems, etc.). 
• Nature of computation (ant colony optimization, artificial immune systems, genetic algorithms, particle swarm intelligence, simulated annealing, tabu search, etc.). 
• Computational intelligence (artificial intelligence, approximate reasoning, expert systems, machine learning, support vector machines, robotics, image processing, pattern recognition, information retrieval, etc.). 
• Operations research and management sciences (fuzzy games theory, fuzzy inventory models, fuzzy queueing theory, fuzzy scheduling problems, fuzzy optimization, fuzzy decision making, fuzzy data mining, fuzzy clustering, stochastic optimization, financial derivatives, uncertainty modeling, etc.).

Prof. Dr. Hsien-Chung Wu
Prof. Dr. Ziye Zhang
Dr. Rongrong Yu
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Algorithms algorithms	1.8	4.1	2008	18.9 Days	CHF 1600	Submit
Axioms axioms	1.9	-	2012	22.8 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Energies energies	3.0	6.2	2008	16.8 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Mathematics mathematics	2.3	4.0	2013	18.3 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Symmetry symmetry	2.2	5.4	2009	17.3 Days	CHF 2400	Submit

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