Special sessions provide the opportunity to focus in detail on particular emerging topics, which are not reflected in the list of conference tracks or represent a specific working fields where researchers would like to meet and discuss advances.

Organization of special sessions

Once approved, it is the duty of the organizers to publicize the Special Session among researchers and practitioners in the field and attract a sufficient number of papers.

Papers submitted to SSs will undergo the same review process as regular papers. The SS chairs of the respective special session are responsible for organizing the review process, assuring at least three reviews per paper. This includes selection of reviewers from their peers.

Before starting the review process,SS organizers must explicitly declare papers which present a conflict of interest for them. A conflict of interest arises where the judgement of a paper quality can be influenced by the organizers being authors or knowing some of the authors. To ensure independent reviews, this conflict must be marked as such in the submission system and the SS chairs notified so that they can arrange the review process.

A minimum of 5 accepted papers with authors from at least 3 independent institutions is required for each session. If a session has too few papers, accepted papers will be allocated to regular sessions wherever possible. In case of indication of weakly organized special sessions, the conference organizers will support the organizers with advice but reserve measures including cancellation of the respective special session.

Proposal Submission

Please send your proposal in PDF format (template) to: ifuzzy2023@gms.npu.edu.tw. Submission deadline is July 1September 10, 2023. Later submissions can be considered on special request.

Organized Special Sessions

SS-01: Fuzzy control technology achieving mixed performance constraints, by Prof. Wen-Jer Chang and Prof. Cheung-Chieh Ku

SS-02: Fuzzy logic system and applications, by Prof. Gwo-Ruey Yu

SS-03: Intelligence motion control, by Prof. Mei-Yung Chen

SS-04: Computational intelligence in biomedical engineering, by Prof. Li-Wei Ko, Prof. Chia-Feng Juang, and Prof. I-Fang Chung

SS-05: Intelligent fuzzy learning in control systems, by Prof. Ching-Chih Tsai

SS-06: Key features and functions of tugger AGVs: fuzzy control, by Prof. Chun-Fei Hsu and Prof. Tsu-Tian Lee

SS-07: Intelligence systems and fuzzy systems, by Prof. Chen-Chia Chuang and Prof. Jin-Tsong Jeng

SS-08: Intelligent System Control and Applications, by Prof. Shu-Yin Chiang  and Prof. Chia-Wen Chang 

SS-09: Fuzzy MCDM, Prof. Jiann-Haw Liou, Prof. Yu-Jie Wang,  and Prof. Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng

SS-10: Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, by Prof. Shun-Hung Tsai, Prof. Chin-Sheng Chen and Prof. Ying-Jen Chen

SS-11: Intelligent System Design and Implementation, by Prof. Yih-Guang Leu

SS-12: Intelligent Systems and Its Applications (KIIS), by Prof. Young-Jae Ryoo and Prof. Youngchul Bae

Special Issue paper of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems

Some high-quality papers on fuzzy topics for fuzzy system and its applications can be directly published in the special issue of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (IJFS). This journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, impact factor is 4.3 in 2022). Hence, we have at least a session for the special issue of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems at iFUZZY2023 conference. It will be a question-and-answer session with three reviewers for elected papers and the session is open to all the audience. 

The guest editor (Prof. Yo-Ping Huang) will decide after conference whether to accept those papers to be published in the coming issue of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems on site. If you want to submit your paper to this special issue, you must submit a Conference Proceedings-only Paper to conference Submission system and register this paper. 

If your papers are intended for this special issue, please send emails to the guest editor (Prof. Yo-Ping Huang, yphuang@gms.npu.edu.tw ) when you submit your papers.

Besides, you must register for the conference and provide the full-length paper with IJFS format to yphuang@gms.npu.edu.tw before August 1, 2023 for the first round review.

About the instructions for Authors of IJFS, to see https://www.springer.com/journal/40815/