Oriental Thinking and Fuzzy Logic, Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Fuzzy Sets

Abstract

In August 17–20, 2015, during the spring up of big data tide, we have held an international conference on Oriental Thinking and Fuzzy Logic at Dalian, China to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fuzzy Sets. The honorary chair for this conference was, of course, the founder of fuzzy sets theory, Prof. L. A. Zadeh. All colleagues at the conference expressed their deep respects to him. Every Chinese scholar who has been met him remembers by his modesty and enthusiasm. To guide the information revolution, he has constructed a great bridge between qualitative and quantitative. There were five main topics in the conference: Fuzzy information processing and engineering; Internet and big data applications; Factor space and factorial neural networks; Information granulation and granular computing; Extenics and innovation methods. Here, Extenics is a new field of the disciplinary, which was initiated by Prof. Wen Cai to achieve innovation facing a problem seems impossible to be possible. The theory of factor space was initiated by me with the oriental thinking. There were 15 plenary talks in the conference as follows:Wen Cai, Fuzzy logic and Extenics; Yixiang Chen, Inter-definability and application of fuzzy logic operators; I. Dzitac, Fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence; Jiali Feng, Theory of meta-synthetic wisdom based on fusion of qualitative, quantitative and imagery operations; Jiafa Gu, System science and Chinese medicine; He Ouyang, A mathematical foundation for factor spaces; Qing He, Uncertainty Learning; Congfu Huang, An approach checking whether an intelligent internet can improve intelligence; Deyi Li, Cognitive physics; Zengliang Liu, Factorial neural networks; W. Pedrycz, New frontiers of computing