BISC Special Event in Honor of Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh

November 3-5 2005
Berkeley, California

Join us to celebrate more than 50 years of Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh's pioneering work on different fronts: The 50th anniversary of his pioneering work in "System Theory and Decision Analysis" the 40th of his pioneering work in "Fuzzy Sets,” and other contributions that changed our world.

FORGING NEW FRONTIERS

40th of Fuzzy Pioneers (1965-2005)

Dedicated to: Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh

“The legacy of accomplishment, excellence and people

who contribute to the advancement of computational intelligence

through science and technology to better serve global community”

Fuzzy Set: 1965 … Fuzzy Logic: 1973 … BISC: 1990 … Human-Machine Perception: 2000 - ..

November 3-5 2005

University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California, USA

“Where Fuzzy Began”

BISCSE05 AT A GLANCE Nov 2.- Nov. 5, 2005
		Wednesday Nov. 2, 2005		Thursday Nov. 3 , 2005	Friday Nov. 4, 2005	Saturday Nov. 5, 2005
7:00-8:00		Speakers’ Breakfast
8:00–9:00			Registration		Formal Presentations Parallel Sessions Chairs: Etienne Kerre Ildar batyrshin	Formal Presentations Parallel Sessions Chairs: Christer Carlsson Burhan Turksen
9:00-10:00			Opening Remarks Director: CITRIS Chair: BISCSE05 (Host of the Event) Welcome by: Dean: College of Eng. Chair: EECS Associate Chairs: CS and EE Director: BISC Program
10:00-10:15		Coffee Break
10:15-11:00		Tutorial	Keynote Speakers
11:00-12:30			Special Session Chair: Christer Carlsson Featured Speakers		Special Session Chair: Masoud Nikravesh Featured Speakers	Special Session Chair: Burhan Turksen Featured Speakers
12:30–1:45		Lunch Break Speakers’ Lunch
2:00–4:00		Tutorial	Invited Lectures Formal Presentations Parallel Sessions Chairs: Nik Kasabov Elie Sanchez		Invited Lectures Formal Presentations Parallel Sessions Chairs: Vesa Niskanan Paul Wang	Invited Lectures Formal Presentations Parallel Sessions Chairs: Ron Yager Janusz Kacprzyk
4:00–4:15		Coffee Break
4:15–4:45			Featured Speakers Introduction: Masoud Nikravesh (UC Berkeley)
			Special Discussion Sessions & Featured Speakers
4:45-5:45	Organizing Committee Meetings Registration		Past, Present, Future (Global Issue) Chairs: Vesa Niskanen & Janusz Kacprzyk		Bioinformatics/Medicine Chairs: Nik Kasabov & Klaus-Peter Adlassnig	System Theory & Control Chair: Mo. Jamshidi
Tutorial (4:15-6:15 pm)			Panel Discussion
5:45-6:45	Organizing Committee Meetings Registration		FLINT Web Intelligence Search Engine - Q &A Semantic Web Moderators: Elie Sanchez & Masoud Nikravesh		Fuzzy Sets in Information Systems Moderators: Patrick Bosc & Masoud Nikravesh	A Glimpse into the Fuzzy Future Moderator: Prof. L. A. Zadeh
7:00–10:00	Reception Claremont Hotel (5:00-7:00pm)				Dinner Faculty Club Keynote Speaker-1 Keynote Speaker-2	Gala  Claremont Hotel Keynote Speaker-1 Dean Newton College of Eng. Keynote Speaker-2