NAFIPS President’s Message

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 31 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0888-613X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0888-613x(05)00078-2

✦ Synopsis

Just more than a month ago we had a successful and very well organized NAFIPS conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan; http://www.nafips05.wayne.edu/. The event was well attended and focused on various applications as well as new and promising avenues of the technology of fuzzy sets. As the event was held in the heart of the Ford country, we really enjoyed various interactions with industrial sponsors including a banquet dinner in the Ford museum. This year NAFIPS conference was unique in a yet another way: 40 years have already passed since the inception of fuzzy sets and this offered us an interesting opportunity to reflect upon the history of fuzzy sets and venture into their future and new emerging opportunities.

As usual, we held a general NAFIPS meeting where we discussed the current business of the society. The election took place and I am pleased to update you on the current composition of the NAFIPS Board. Dimitar Filev is a president-elect while the Board members are: