WConSC 2011 - World Conference on Soft Computing 2011

World Conference on Soft Computing, San Francisco 2011 - WConSC'11 - aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in the multiple areas of soft computing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, to consider potential future directions
one of the objectives of the conference is to encourage participation by young researchers; to this end student papers will be given special consideration
topics

theories and methods:

Information Theory, Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Evidence and Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Approximate Reasoning, Non-classical Logics, Default Reasoning, Belief Revision, Argumentation, Uncertainty in Cognition, Graphical Models, Knowledge Acquisition, Information Fusion and Aggregation, Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, Decision Support, Cognitive Modeling, Game Theory, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Social Networks and Trust, Granular Computing, Computing with Words, Rough Sets, Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Data Analysis, Hybrid Architectures

applications and tools:

Intelligent and Multi-agent Systems, Information Processing and Retrieval, Intelligent Data Analysis, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Database and Information Systems, Intelligent Search, Internet and Semantic Web, Multi-Media, Control and Robotics, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Human-centric Interfaces, Medicine and Bioinformatics, Finance, Software Engineering, Industrial Engineering, e-Commerce, Security