OFGU 2013 - Special Session on Optimization under Flexibility and Generalized Uncertainty

Session in Honor and the Memory of Professor Hideo Tanaka
Flexible optimization (fuzzy optimization) and generalized uncertainty optimization are relatively new methods developed over the last 40 years. Their usefulness has not yet been fully exploited, but are at the core of what should be applied. We will explore the contributions of Professor Hideo Tanaka, deceased 2012, who, with his colleagues and students were the first to operationalize the Bellman/Zadeh approach to fuzzy optimization.
The organizers are looking for talks that will: 1) Highlight the contributions of Professor Hideo Tanaka to fuzzy optimization 2) Survey the state of the art in flexible (fuzzy) and generalized uncertainty (possibilistic) optimization 3) Present new results in flexible (fuzzy) and generalized uncertainty (possibilistic) optimization 4) Present any interesting applications of flexible (fuzzy) and generalized uncertainty (possibilistic) optimization 5) Extend current algorithms for solving numerically problems in the area of flexible (fuzzy) and generalized uncertainty (possibilistic) optimization.
Weldon A. Lodwick
http://math.ucdenver.edu/ ~wlodwick
Masahiro Inuiguchi
Contact: Masahiro Inuiguchi (inuiguti-AT-sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp), Weldon A. Lodwick (Weldon.Lodwick-AT-ucdenver.edu)