Abstract
This short note is devoted to introduce the discussion carried out along this special issue on the concept of Soft Computing by key researchers in the field. We shall stress some aspects of the conception and origins of Soft Computing, supported by the scientific relevance of its participants. The contributors will show their own view about a single question, What is Soft Computing?, covering answers from a general historical approach to the role of some specific tools within their expertise. This discussion represents an extremely interesting view about the concept of Soft Computing, its meaning, its related techniques and its relationship with close fields.
Highlights
Soft Computing was introduced by Lotfi A
We can find several overlapped terminologies related to Soft Computing, like Soft Systems, Computing with Words, Computational Intelligence, Machine Intelligence or Artificial Intelligence, and so on
The fact is that during the last FLINS 2008 conference (Madrid, Spain, September 21-24, 2008) the plenary speaker Luis Magdalena[10], Head of the European Centre for Soft Computing (Asturias, Spain), gave a talk under the title What is Soft Computing? that turned into an intense discussion among key researchers in the field attending Luis Magdalena’s talk
Summary
Soft Computing was introduced by Lotfi A. The exchange of ideas was so vivid, complementary and illustrative, that we immediately contacted each active participant in such a discussion to write down their comments, in order to put them altogether as a special issue of some relevant scientific journal. Most of those FLINS participants agreed very soon to join this project,. Javier Montero and Luis Martínez and Da Ruan, founder of the FLINS initiative and that took part in such a discussion, offered the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems for a rapid dissemination of such a wonderful and spontaneous round table, understanding that this project absolutely fitted the objectives of the journal and was within the best FLINS tradition. The life discussion that naturally appeared around Luis Magdalena’s talk was in the best FLINS spirit and tradition
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