Workshop on Preference Modelling and Applications


April 25 - 27, 2001, Granada, Spain

   

(DEpartment of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence) and invite you to participate in the


EUROFUSE Workshop on Preference Modelling and Applications.

is a working group of EURO and EUSFLAT.This meeting will be held at the University of Granada, April 25 - 27, 2001.

Aims and Scope The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in Europe and abroad developing and applying fuzzy techniques in preference modelling and decision making. The workshop is intended to establish the state of the art in the field and to encourage cooperation among the participants.

The workshop will be rather informal, with an open and friendly spirit and a flexible schedule. The program schedule will consist of 3 working days and a half day excursion to the famous Alhambra. Each half day will start with an invited lecture followed by a number of regular contributions. Ample time for discussions will be provided and no parallel sessions will be scheduled. The number of participants envisaged is between 30 and 40.

Photographs Gallery Some important moments.


Workshop Program Workshop program.


Congress Meeting Point, Residences, and Hotels and Granada city Information.


Registration Information In order to register in the workshop you must fill out the registration form, and follow the instruction given in it.


Accommodation Information We have reserved an limited number of rooms in three hotels with different prices. You can find them in the accommodation form,. Then, in order to organize the accommodation process the designed procedure is as follows:
1. Look at the hotel that you want.
2. Send me an e-mail (viedma@decsai.ugr.es) with the hotel name, the number of double rooms and simple rooms that you need, the arrival date and the departure date.
3. I shall confirm you the availability of your desired rooms via mail.
4. Confirmed the availability, then you can reserve the rooms filling out the accommodation form and following the instructions given in it.

Support A limited number of participants from Central and Eastern Europe or Ph.D. students from all over Europe can apply for EURO support covering (partial) travel and accomodation. Interested persons should contact one of the EUROFUSE coordinators (B. De Baets and J. Fodor).

Committees Program committee

Chairman: M. Delgado (Spain)

Members: T. Bilgic (Turkey), A. Blanco (Spain), U. Bodenhofer (Austria), B. Bouchon-Meunier (France), H. Bustince (Spain), T. Calvo (Spain), C. Carlsson (Finland), C. Chen (Taiwan), F. Chiclana (Spain), B. De Baets (Belgium), G. Devedzic (Yugoslavia), D. Dubois (France), M. Fedrizzi (Italy), R. Felix (Germany), J. Fodor (Hungary), R. Fuller (Hungary), M. Grabisch (France), F. Herrera (Spain), E. Herrera-Viedma (Spain), B. John (UK), J. Kacprzyk (Poland), E. Lopez (Spain), R. Marques Pereira (Italy), M. Marimin (Indonesia), L. Martinez (Spain), J. Montero (Spain), G. Pasi (Italy), M. Pirlot (Belgium), P. Perny (France), R. Ribeiro (Portugal), D. Radojevic (Yugoslavia), M. Roubens (Belgium), R. Slowinski (Poland), Z. Switalski (Poland), V. Torra (Spain), B. Van de Walle (USA), J.L. Verdegay (Spain), R.R. Yager (USA), S. Zadrozny (Poland).

Organising committee

Chairman: F. Herrera (Spain)

Members: B. De Baets (Belgium), E. Herrera-Viedma (Spain), L. Martinez (Spain) and P.J. Sánchez (Spain).

Structure of the conference Invited presentations
Six guest speakers, U. Bodenhofer, H. Bustince, B. De Baets & J. Fodor, R. Marques Pereira, G. Pasi, and R.R. Yager, will deliver a 45 min talk covering a broad variety of interests.

Contributed papers
Contributed papers will be presented in plenary sessions (25 minutes for each paper, 5 minutes for discussion).

Paper
submission
Extended abstracts should be prepared in the usual LATEX two-column style; the length should be aimed at 4 or 6 pages. The instructions are described in the following Postscript example file, generated from the tex file eurofuse2001.tex and using the document class eurofuse2001.cls. There are also a word format eurofuse2001.doc. They should be submitted, before December 20, 2000 to the address:

herrera@decsai.ugr.es

Authors willing to submit a full paper for a special issue of a journal, yet to be determined, are requested to submit up to 20 pages before June 30, 2001. Details will be announced later.

Important dates
  • December 20, 2000 : Deadline for submission of extended abstracts
  • February 20, 2001 : Notification of acceptance.
  • March 20, 2001 : Deadline for submission of camera-ready manuscripts, conference program on the web
  • June 30, 2001 : Full papers for special issue

 
Other information Upon registration or paper submission, the participants will receive information about payment and accommodation. It is our intention to lodge the interested participants in a nice building belonging to the University of Granada at an affordable price.

People who wish to register or get more information should contact the secretary of the workshop:

E. Herrera-Viedma
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
E.T.S de Ingenieria Informatica
University of Granada
Granada (Spain)
email: viedma@decsai.ugr.es