Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Soft computing as transdisciplinary science and technology - CSTST '08

Abstract

Soft Computing (SC) has an evolving collection of methodologies, which is aimed to exploit tolerance for imprecision uncertainty, and partial truth to achieve robustness, tractability, and low cost. SC provides attractive opportunity to represent the ambiguity in human thinking with real life uncertainty. Fuzzy logic (FL), Neural Networks (NN), and Evolutionary Computation (EC) were the core methodologies of soft computing. Later chaos computing, fractal theory, wavelet transformation, cellular automaton, percolation models, and immune network theory were added to enhance soft computing. However, they should not be viewed as competing with each other, but synergistic and complementary, instead. SC was actually the combination or fusion of each methodology which yielded new computational capabilities (hybrid systems). Soft computing is currently causing a paradigm shift (breakthrough) in science and technology. The stage for the Fifth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08) has been set. This edition is dedicated to commemorate the memory of Professor Yasuhiko Dote, Founding Chair of WSTST series of meetings. In essence, CSTST'08 is built on the success of the previous four events held in Muroran, Japan namely the IEEE International Workshop on Neuro Fuzzy Control, in 1993; IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industry, in 1996, the IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industry, in 1999 and International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST'2005). CSTST'08 is hosted by University of Cergy Pontoise, France and is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, ACM SIGAPP (French Chapter), IEEE French Section, World Federation on Soft Computing, European Society for Fuzzy Logic, Technology and International Fuzzy Systems Association, and AFIHM - French Association of Human Computer Interaction. On behalf of the CSTST'08 program committee, we wish to extend a very warm welcome to this edition in Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, France. The conference program committee has organized an exciting and invigorating program comprising presentations from distinguished experts in the field, and important and wide-ranging contributions on state-of-the-art research that provide new insights into current cutting edge results on "Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology". This year, we received over 212 regular submissions and we are really gratified by the international diversity of this conference: authors of submitted work hail from no less than 30 countries including Vietnam, Egypt, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Netherlands, Austria, Malaysia, Sweden, Croatia, Kuwait, Cyprus, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Singapore, Argentina, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland, Czech, Republic, Spain, Norway, Taiwan, Canada, Libya, Romania, Mexico, Greece, Brazil, Pakistan, Germany, Australia, Tunisia, India, United States of America, Italy, Korea, Poland, Algeria, Japan, United Kingdom, Iran, China, Portugal, and France. The technical program of CSTST'08 conference comprises of 62 papers. The conference program committee had a very challenging task of choosing high quality submissions. Each paper was peer reviewed by at least three or more independent referees of the program committee and the papers were selected based on the referee recommendations. The papers offer stimulating insights into emerging intelligent technologies and their applications in Internet security, chance discovery, humanized computational intelligence, web intelligence, data mining, image processing, swarm intelligence, optimization and so on.