β Scribed by James C. Bezdek
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Although the Guest Editor in an issue such as this usually spends a few minutes summarizing each of the papers included, I think the manuscripts below speak admirably for themselves. Consequently, my few moments will be spent advertising the source of this issue--namely, the North American Fuzzy Information Processing (NAFIP) Society. Our society, having been formed only last year, is relatively small compared with the vigorous and well-organized activities of our European and Japanese colleagues. The nine papers and one note in this issue represent a sizeable portion of the program at our first NAFIP Society Workshop. The Workshop was held at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, on 19-21 May 1982. Twenty-two contributed and three invited talks were presented to 42 registered attendees. There were in all six plenary sessions, whose titles and chairmen were:
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