2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
New submission deadline: February 10, 2017!
Description of the session topic
The aim of this special session is to discuss and disseminate the most recent advancements focused on interpretability of fuzzy systems. Many fuzzy algorithms and models are indeed aimed at extracting knowledge from data, and the acquired knowledge must be usually communicated to users. However, as far as such knowledge is difficult to understand by users, the acceptance of such methods may be seriously compromised. Interpretability must be the central point on system modeling. In fact, some of the hottest and most recent research topics like Precisiated Natural Language, Computing With Words, and Human Centric Computing strongly rely on the interpretability of the designed models. The challenge is to better exploit fuzzy logic techniques for improving the human-centric character of many intelligent systems.
Interpretability is therefore a key property of intelligent systems of practical use, but its human-centric character poses difficult challenges both in design and evaluation. The issue of interpretability is tackled in different ways by focusing on specific facets of system modeling, such as the formalization of interpretability in an algebraic structure, or the definition of constraints to be imposed during model design and tuning. Moreover, the evaluation of interpretability is a mandatory issue to validate and compare models.
This session goes on with the previous events (focus on interpretable fuzzy systems) that we already organized at joint IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009, ISDA 2009, WCCI 2010, WILF 2011, ESTYLF 2012, WCCI 2012, EUSFLAT 2013, and IFSA-EUSFLAT2015.
Scope and topics
The topics of interest of this special session include (but are not limited to):
Theoretical aspects of interpretability
Learning methods for interpretable systems and models
Interpretability evaluation and improvements
Relations between interpretability and other criteria (such as accuracy, stability, relevance, etc.)
Design issues
Successful applications of interpretable fuzzy systems
Deadlines
Paper submission: New submission deadline: February 10, 2017!
Acceptance/rejection notification: March 10th, 2017
Final paper submission: April 8th, 2017
Conference dates: July 9-12, 2017
Submission notes
Contributors interested to submit their papers to the Special Session on Interpretable Fuzzy System should employ the standard FUZZ-IEEE online submission system and select the specific special session title under the list of research topics, namely: SS_26: Interpretable Fuzzy Systems
Further details concerning submission instructions can be found on the dedicated Conference Web Page.
Organizers
Ciro Castiello (ciro.castiello@uniba.it)
Department of Informatics
University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
Bari, Italy
Corrado Mencar (corrado.mencar@uniba.it)
Department of Informatics
University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
Bari, Italy
José M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
Research Centre in Information Technologies (CiTIUS)
University of Santiago de Compostela
Campus Vida, E-15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
