August 27, Saturday
8.00 – 13.00 Arrival Szeged, Novotel Hotel
12.00 – 13.30 Conference Registration, Novotel Szeged

All the sessions will be held in Lechner Room.

13.30 – 14.00 Opening: Annamaria R. Varkonyi Koczy - general co-chair
                                       Imre J. Rudas - honorary chair
14.00 – 15.00 Plenary - Bernard De Baets - Fuzzy Connectives: Associativity versus Continuity
                    Chair: Annamaria Varkonyi Koczy
15.00 – 15.20 Coffee break

Session 1. - FUZZY Mathematics I
                    Chair: Antonio Ruano

15.20 - 15.40 - Sufficient triangular Norms in many-valued Logics:
                    D. Butnariu, E.P.Klement, R. Mesiar, M. Navara
15.40 – 16.00 - PLIANT Cognitive Map using Conjunctive Operator
                    J. Dombi, J.D. Dombi
16.00 – 16.20 - On the Interpolative Side of the Fuzzy Sets
                    M. Balas, V. Balas, M. Ciugudean, L.T.Koczy, J. Botzheim

16.20 – 16.40 Break

Session 2. – Modelling
                    Chair: Jean Duplaix

16.40 – 17.00 - Model Comparison for Temperature Estimation Inside Buildings
                    E. M. Crispim, M. D. Martins, A. E. Ruano
17.00 – 17.20 - Modeling the Heat Flow of the Greenhouses
                    M. Balas, J. Duplaix, S. Balas
17.20 – 17.40 - Data Analysis for Neuro-fuzzy Model Approach
                    N. Pessel, J. Duplaix, J.F. Balmat, F. Lafont
17.40 – 18.00 - Uninorm-based Models for FLC Systems
                    M. Takacs

Evening Program

18.30 – Meeting in the Novotel Hotel lobby. Transfer to dinner by boat. Groups of 10 people will be taken to the boat from 10 to 10 minutes.
In case someone doesn’t want to be transferred by boat, the Kiskokosi Csárda is at a 15 minute walk from Novotel Hotel.
19.30 – Dinner at Kiskorosi Csárda
The trip back will be by foot.

August 28, Sunday

All the sessions will be held in Lechner Room.

9.00 – 10.00 Plenary - Nick Kasabov - Global, Local and Personalized Modeling and Pattern Discovery in Bioinformatics: An Integrated Approach
                    Chair: Janos Fodor

Session 3 – Identification and Control
                    Chair: Marius Balas

10.00 - 10.20 - Simple Intelligent Controllers Based on Rules
                    S. Dale, A. Bara
10.20 – 10.40 – Method for Implementing a Control System Based on Redundant Structures
                    G. Gabor, D. Zmaranda, S. Dale
10.40 – 11.00 - The Identification of a Wastewater Process Based on Genetic Algorithms
                    S. Caraman, R. Belea, M. Barbu
11.00 – 11.20 - On Data Management in Elementary System Identification Approaches Using Genetic Algorithms
                    E. Vladu, T. L. Dragomir

11.20 – 12.00 Coffee and sandwiches

12.30 Meeting in front of the Novotel Hotel for organized departure to Arad.

15.00 – 16.00 Arrival and registration, Arad, Hotel Continental
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee, tea

All the sessions will be held in Room A.

16.15 – 16.30 Welcome: Lizica Mihut - rector of “Aurel Vlaicu” University
                                       Valentina Balas - general co-chair

16.30 –17.30 Plenary - Jozsef Dombi – The Pliant Concept and generalized Dombi Operator
                    Chair: Bernard De Baets

Session 4. - FUZZY Mathematics II
                    Chair: Dan Butnariu

17.30 – 17.50 – Ranking Alternatives with Preference Function Based on the Pliant Concept
                    J. Dombi, N. Gyorbiro
17.50 – 18.10 - Level Analysis of Fuzzy Partition Tree and its Application
                    K. Shinkai, H. Yamashita, H. Uesu, N. Yanai, M. Yanai
18.10 – 18.30 – Characterization of Nonstrict Means
                    J. Fodor
18.30 – 18.50 – Fuzzy Rule Based Classifier Construction Using Squashing Functions
                    J. Dombi, Zs. Gera

19.00 – Meeting in the hotel lobby for organized transfer to the cocktail party
19.30 – Cocktail Party at “Aurel Vlaicu” University’s new building

August 29, Monday

9.00 – 10.00 Plenary - Lotfi A. Zadeh – From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems—The Problems of World Knowledge, Relevance, Deduction and Precisiation
                    Chair: Valentina Balas

Parallel Sessions (5 and 6)

Room A – Biomedical Engineering
                    Chair: Horia Nicolai Teodorescu

10.00 – 10.20 - Decision Support System for Operative Indications in Case of Cardiac Valve Surgery, Using Fuzzy Logic
                    L. Amariei, O. Voroneanu
10.20 – 10.40 – Uniform Disease Definition System for Medical Enterprise Networks
                    R. Leca, V. Groza
10.40 – 11.00 - Neuromorphic Ommatidium based on Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
                    H. N. Teodorescu, C. Zamfir

Room B – Multi Agent Systems
                    Chair: Eugen Roventa

10.00 – 10.20 - Performance Analysis for a .NET Multi-agent Framework
                    I. Sova
10.20 – 10.40 - A New Intelligent Mobile Multiagent System
                    B. L. Iantovics
10.40 – 11.00 - Fusion Devices and Changes of Belief
                    V. Balas, E. Roventa, T. Spircu

11.00 – 11.40 Coffee break

Parallel Sessions (7 and 8)

Room A – Adaptive and Nonlinear Systems
                    Chair: Toma Leonida Dragomir

11.40 – 12.00 - Improved PSO Algorithms for Electromagnetic Optimization
                    L. Matekovits, M. Mussetta, P. Pirinoli, S. Selleri, R. E. Zich
12.00 – 12.20 - Multichannel Representation of Non-Linear Wavelets and Its Application to Image Compression/Reconstruction
                    H. Nobuhara, B. Bede, K. Hirota
12.20 – 12.40 Neuro-Adaptive Forecasting for Nonstationary Sequences
                    I. Nastac, P. Cristea

Room B – Applications
                    Chair: Mircea Ciugudean

11.40 – 12.00 – Analysis of the Predictability of Time Series Obtained from Genomic Sequences by Using of Several Predictors
                    H.N. Teodorescu, L.I. Fira
12.00 – 12.20 - An Alarm System Design with PIR Using Fuzzy Sensor Fusion and Genetic Algorithm Program
                    C. Barna
12.20 – 12.40 - Dynamics of Fuzzy Models for Market Players
                    H. N. Teodorescu, M. Zbancioc

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch

Room A

15.00 – 16.00 Plenary - Laszlo T. Koczy – Fuzzy models and interpolation
                    Chair: Horia Nicolai Teodorescu

16.00 – 16.20 Coffee break

Parallel Sessions (9 and 10)

Room A – Feature Extract and Classification
                    Chair: Jozsef Dombi

16.20 – 16.40 - Improving a Basis Function Based Classification Method Using Feature Selection Algorithms
                    K. Kovacs, A. Kocsor
16.40 – 17.00 - A Soft Computing Approach to the Elaboration of Satellite Data
                    A. Luchetta, C. Serio, M. Viggiano
17.00 – 17.20 - Locally Linear Embedding and its Variants for Feature Extraction
                    R. Busa-Fekete, A. Kocsor
17.20 – 17.40 - Expert Rules for Partitive Clustering Methods using Potential Function-Based Algorithms
                    V. Nicolau, D. Aiordachioaie,G. Puscasu, C. Miholca

Room B – Signal and Image Processing
                    Chair: Paul Cristea

16.20 – 16.40 - Generalized Convex Combined Eigen Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications to Image Analysis
                    B. Bede, H. Nobuhara, I. J. Rudas, K. Hirota
16.40 – 17.00 - Image Processing in Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis
                    M. Costin, C. Stefanescu, D. Galea, M. Zbancioc
17.00 – 17.20 - Improved Fuzzy Based Corner Detection Method
                    A. Varkonyi-Koczy, A. Rovid
17.20 – 17.40 - Genomic Signal Analysis of HIV Reverse Transcriptase Gene
                    P. D. Cristea, R. A. Tuduce, B. Pavaloiu, M. Andrei

18.30 – Evening program (sightseeing by foot, informal dinner).
         18.00 – Group 1 will meet in the hotel lobby for sightseeing tour (about 1 hour).
         18.30 – Group 2 (those who don’t participate at sightseeing) will be taken to dinner by car.
         19.00 – Dinner at the Ratio West Restaurant, at Neptun swimming complex.

August 30, Tuesday

9.00 – 10.00 Plenary - Eugen Roventa & Tiberiu Spircu - Fuzzy Logic and AI. Relationship between FL and AI. The role of FL in extending some of the models of AI. The four facets of FL
                    Chair: Laszlo T. Koczy

Session 11 - Intelligent Systems
                    Chair: Rudolf Seising

10.00 – 10.20 - On the Fuzzy Way from "Thinking Machines" to the "Machine IQ"
                    R. Seising
10.20 – 10.40 - Distributed Rule-based System
                    M. Petcu, D. Petcu
10.40 – 11.00 - The Analysis of the Influence of Searching Space Limitation of Genetic Algorithms on Reliability Maximization Problem
                    C. Popescu, D. E. Popescu, C. Rusu
11.00 – 11.20 - An application of Ranking Methods: Retrieving the Importance Order of Decision Factors
                    A. Lazar, A. Kocsor

11.20 – 11.30 Closing
11.30 – 12.20 Buffet lunch, coffee, tea

12.20 – 13.00 Check-out
13.10 Meeting in the hotel lobby for organized departure to Hungary.