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{{Event
|Acronym=IFSA 2019
|Title=18th IFSA World Congress
|Type=Conference
|Start date=2019/06/18
|End date=2019/06/21
|Homepage=https://interval.louisiana.edu/IFSA-NAFIPS/
|City=Lafayette
|State=Louisiana
|Country=USA
|has Proceedings Link=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-21920-8
}}
'''18th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) held jointly with the 38th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) Annual Conference'''



==Topics==

Here are some, but not all topics covered in this world congress / annual conference.
Fuzzy sets:

    Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
    Mathematical foundations of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
    Fuzzy systems design and optimization
    Fuzzy control and robotics
    Fuzzy and interval constraint propagation
    Fuzzy information processing
    Fuzzy hardware and architectures
    Fuzzy optimization and decision making
    Fuzzy pattern recognition and classification
    Fuzzy clustering and rule mining
    Fuzzy databases
    Fuzzy decision making
    Fuzzy preference modelling
    Fuzzy sets and intervals
    Type-2, interval-valued, intuitionistic, and hesitant fuzzy sets
    Rough sets, imprecise probabilities, possibility theory

Soft computing methods:

    Ambient intelligence
    Bayesian networks
    Bio-inspired optimization
    Computational intelligence
    Cyber computing
    Evolutionary computation
    Granular computing
    Graphical models
    Information fusion
    Machine learning
    Multi-agent systems
    Multivariate analysis
    Neural networks
    Optimization
    Probabilistic reasoning
    Semantic web

Applications:

    Agriculture and geographical information systems
    Artificial societies
    Awareness computing
    Big data and cloud computing
    Bioinformatics
    Biometrics
    Brain science
    Chemicals and food industry
    Cognitive science
    Data mining
    Decision making and risk management
    Distributed systems
    Education and training
    Environment engineering
    Fault detection and diagnosis
    Financial applications
    Geographical Information Systems
    Human-computer interaction and interface
    Image, speech and signal processing
    Industrial applications
    Information retrieval and recommendation systems
    Intelligent control
    Intelligent systems
    Linguistics
    Manufacturing systems
    Medical applications
    Operations research and manufacturing
    Robotics and control systems
    Text mining and social network analysis
    Transportation
    Security
    Social sciences
    Software and hardware applications
    Virtual reality
    Vision and sensors
    Web intelligence and interaction



==Important Dates==

    Workshop Proposals: December 1, 2018
    Special Session Proposals: December 1, 2018
    Special Session Notification: December 15, 2018
    Workshop Notification: December 15, 2018
    Special Session Paper Submission: February 8, 2019
    General Paper Submission: February 8, 2019
    Paper Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2019
    Paper Revisions: March 5, 2019
    Conference Dates: June 18-21, 2019
    Post-conference proceeding papers: April 22, 2019


==Committees==

* General Co-Chairs:


*R. Baker Kearfott (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
*Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
*Calvin Berry, webmaster and advisor (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Also known as: 18th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association, IFSA-NAFIPS 2019, Joint 2019 IFSA World Congress and NAFIPS Annual Conference, 18th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association and the 38th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference
Acronym	IFSA 2019 +
End date	June 21, 2019 +
Event type	Conference +
Has coordinates	30° 13' 27", -92° 1' 11"Latitude: 30.224088888889 Longitude: -92.019841666667 +
Has location city	Lafayette +
Has location country	Category:USA +
Has location state	Louisiana +
Homepage	https://interval.louisiana.edu/IFSA-NAFIPS/ +
IsA	Event +
Start date	June 18, 2019 +
Title	18th IFSA World Congress +