Subject: [16] Bibliography

Date: 14-AUG-95

A list of books compiled by Josef Benedikt for the FLAI '93 (Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence) conference's book exhibition is available by anonymous ftp from

ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/bibs/ as the file fuzzy-bib.text.

A short 1985 fuzzy systems tutorial by James Brule is available as http://life.anu.edu.au/complex_systems/fuzzy.html An ascii copy is also available in the gzipped tar file ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/areas/fuzzy/doc/intro/tutorial.tgz

Wolfgang Slany has compiled a BibTeX bibliography on fuzzy scheduling and related fuzzy techniques, including constraint satisfaction, linear programming, optimization, benchmarking, qualitative modeling, decision making, petri-nets, production control, resource allocation, planning, design, and uncertainty management. It is available by anonymous ftp from

mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at:/pub/slany/

as the file fuzzy-scheduling.bib.Z (or .ps.Z), or by email from

listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at

with

GET LISTPROC fuzzy-scheduling.bib in the message body.

Non-Mathematical Works:

Kosko, Bart, "Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic", Warner, 1993 [For technical details, see Kosko, Bart, "Fuzzy cognitive maps", International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 24:65-75, 1986.]

McNeill, Daniel, and Freiberger, Paul, "Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology", Simon and Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-671-73843-7. [Mostly history, but many examples of applications.]

Negoita, C.V., "Fuzzy Systems", Abacus Press, Tunbridge-Wells, 1981.

Smithson, Michael, "Ignorance and Uncertainty: Emerging Paradigms", Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988.

Brubaker, D.I., "Fuzzy-logic Basics: Intuitive Rules Replace Complex Math," EDN, June 18, 1992.

Schwartz, D.G. and Klir, G.J., "Fuzzy Logic Flowers in Japan," IEEE Spectrum, July 1992.

Earl Cox, "The Fuzzy Systems Handbook: A Practitioner's Guide to Building, Using, and Maintaining Fuzzy Systems", Academic Press, Boston, MA 1994. 615 pages, ISBN 0-12-194270-8 ($49.95). [Includes disk with ANSI C++ source code. Very good.]

F. Martin McNeill and Ellen Thro, "Fuzzy Logic: A practical approach", Academic Press, 1994. 350 pages, ISBN 0-12-485965-8 ($40). [A good fuzzy logic primer.]

Textbooks:

Dubois, Didier, and Prade, H., "Fuzzy Sets and Systems: Theory and Applications", Academic Press, New York, 1980.

Dubois, Didier, and Prade, Henri, "Possibility Theory", Plenum Press, New York, 1988.

Goodman, I.R., and Nguyen, H.T., "Uncertainty Models for Knowledge-Based Systems", North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1986.

Kandel, Abraham, "Fuzzy Mathematical Techniques with Applications", Addison-Wesley, 1986.

Kandel, Abraham, and Lee, A., "Fuzzy Switching and Automata", Crane Russak, New York, 1979.

Klir, George, and Folger, Tina, "Fuzzy Sets, Uncertainty, and Information", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1987. ISBN 0-13-345638-2.

Kosko, Bart, "Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992. ISBN 0-13-611435-0. [Very good.]

R. Kruse, J. Gebhardt, and F. Klawonn, "Foundations of Fuzzy Systems" John Wiley and Sons Ltd., Chichester, 1994. ISBN 0471-94243-X ($47.95). [Theory of fuzzy sets.]

Toshiro Terano, Kiyoji Asai, and Michio Sugeno, "Fuzzy Systems Theory and its Applications", Academic Press, 1992, 268 pages. ISBN 0-12-685245-6. Translation of "Fajii shisutemu nyumon" (Japanese, 1987). Newly released as "Applied Fuzzy Systems", 1994, 320 pages, ISBN 0-12-685242-1 ($40).

Wang, Paul P., "Theory of Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications", Shanghai Science and Technology, Shanghai, 1982.

Wang, Zhenyuan, and Klir, George J., "Fuzzy Measure Theory", Plenum Press, New York, 1991.

Yager, R.R., (editor), "Fuzzy Sets and Applications", John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1987.

Yager, Ronald R., and Zadeh, Lofti, "Fuzzy Sets, Neural Network , and Soft Computing", Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994. ISBN 0-442-01621-2, $64.95.

Zimmerman, Hans J., "Fuzzy Set Theory", Kluwer, Boston, 2nd edition, 1991.

Anthologies:

Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, and Ronald R. Yager, editors, "Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1993. 916 pages, ISBN 1-55860-257-7 paper ($49.95).

"A Quarter Century of Fuzzy Systems", Special Issue of the International Journal of General Systems, 17(2-3), June 1990.

R.J. Marks II, editor, "Fuzzy Logic Technology & Applications", IEEE, 1994. IEEE Order# 94CR0101-6-PSP, $59.95 ($48.00 for IEEE members). Order from 1-800-678-IEEE. [Selected papers from past IEEE conferences. Focus is on papers concerning applications of fuzzy systems. There are also some overview papers.]

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Subject: [17] Journals and Technical Newsletters

Date: 24-AUG-93

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING (IJAR)

Official publication of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS). Published 8 times annually. ISSN 0888-613X. Subscriptions: Institutions $282, NAFIPS members $72 (plus $5 NAFIPS dues) $36 mailing surcharge if outside North America.

For subscription information, write to David Reis, Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc., 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10010, call 212-633-3827, fax 212-633-3913, or send email to 74740.2600@compuserve.com.

Editor:

Piero Bonissone

Editor, Int'l J of Approx Reasoning (IJAR)

GE Corp R&D

Bldg K1 Rm 5C32A

PO Box 8

Schenectady, NY 12301 USA

Email: bonissone@crd.ge.com

Voice: 518-387-5155

Fax: 518-387-6845

Email: Bonissone@crd.ge.com

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUZZY SETS AND SYSTEMS (IJFSS)

The official publication of the International Fuzzy Systems Association. Subscriptions: Subscription is free to members of IFSA. ISSN: 0165-0114

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS

ISSN 1063-6706

Editor in Chief: James Bezdek

THE HUNTINGTON TECHNICAL BRIEF

Technical newsletter about fuzzy logic edited by Dr. Brubaker. It is mailed monthly, is a single sheet, front and back, and rotates among tutorials, descriptions of actual fuzzy applications, and discussions (reviews, sort of) of existing fuzzy tools and products. [The Huntington Technical Brief was discontinued in December 1994.]

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCERTAINTY, FUZZINESS AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS (IJUFKS)

Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0218-4885.

Intended as a forum for research on methods for managing imprecise, vague, uncertain and incomplete knowledge.

Subscriptions: Individuals $90, Institutions $180. (add $25 for airmail ) World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Farrer Road, PO Box 128, Singapore 9128, Rep. of Singapore.

E-mail worldscp@singnet.com.sg, phone 65-382-5663, fax

65-382-5919.

Web pages for this journal:

http://www.wspc.co.uk/wspc/Journals/ijufks/ijufks.html

Submissions: B Bouchon-Meunier, editor in chief, Laforia-IBP,

Universite Paris VI, Boite 169, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05,

FRANCE, phone 33-1-44-27-70-03, fax 33-1-44-27-70-00, e-mail

bouchon@laforia.ibp.fr.

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Subject: [18] Professional Organizations

Date: 15-APR-93

INSTITUTION FOR FUZZY SYSTEMS AND INTELLIGENT CONTROL, INC.

Sponsors, organizes, and publishes the proceedings of the International Fuzzy Systems and Intelligent Control Conference. The conference is devoted primarily to computer based feedback control systems that rely on rule bases, machine learning, and other artificial intelligence and soft computing techniques. The theme of the 1993 conference was "Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, and Soft Computing."

Thomas L. Ward

Institution for Fuzzy Systems and Intelligent Control, Inc.

P. O. Box 1297

Louisville KY 40201-1297 USA

Phone: +1.502.588.6342

Fax: +1.502.588.5633

Email: TLWard01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu, TLWard01@ulkyvm.bitnet

INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (IFSA)

Holds biannual conferences that rotate between Asia, North America, and Europe. Membership is $232, which includes a subscription to the International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems.

Prof. Philippe Smets

University of Brussels, IRIDIA

50 av. F. Roosevelt

CP 194/6

1050 Brussels, Belgium

LABORATORY FOR INTERNATIONAL FUZZY ENGINEERING (LIFE)

Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research

Siber Hegner Building 3FL

89-1 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku

Yokohama-shi 231 Japan

Email: <name>@fuzzy.or.jp

NORTH AMERICAN FUZZY INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY (NAFIPS)

Holds a conference and a workshop in alternating years.

President:

Dr. Jim Keller

President NAFIPS

Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept

University of Missouri-Col

Columbia, MO 65211 USA

Phone +1.314.882.7339

Email: ecejk@mizzou1.missouri.edu, ecejk@mizzou1.bitnet

Secretary/Treasurer:

Thomas H. Whalen

Sec'y/Treasurer NAFIPS

Decision Sciences Dept

Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA 30303 USA

Phone: +1.404.651.4080

Email: qmdthw@gsuvm1.gsu.edu, qmdthw@gsuvm1.bitnet

SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR FUZZY LOGIC AND TECHNOLOGY

Prof. J. L. Verdegay

Dept. of Computer Science and A.I.

Faculty of Sciences

University of Granada

18071 Granada (Spain)

Phone: +34.58.244019

Tele-fax: +34.58.243317, +34.58.274258

Email: jverdegay@ugr.es

CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR FUZZY INFORMATION AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CANS-FINS)

Dr. Madan M. Gupta, Director <guptam@sask.usask.ca>

Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory

College of Engineering

Sakatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N OWO

Tel: 306-966-5451

Fax: 306-966-8710

Dr. Ralph O. Buchal <rbuchal@charon.engga.uwo.ca>

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Univ. of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, N6A 5B9

Tel: 519-679-2111, x8454

Fax: 519-661-3375

Dr. Martin Laplante

RES Inc.

Suite 501, 100 Sparks Street

Ottawa, Ont. KIP-5B7

Tel: 613-238-3690

Fax: 613-235-5889