You are cordially invited to participate in the 30th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference, NAFIPS 2011, to be held in El Paso, Texas, USA, on March 18--20, 2011. NAFIPS 2011 aims at bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in the area of fuzzy information processing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, and to consider potential future directions.

Topics of interest include:

* Fuzzy sets methodology/Algorithms/Mathematics
* Computational Intelligence/Learning
* Fuzzy modeling/Intelligent data analysis
* Pattern recognition/Image processing
* Data mining/Databases
* Human-centric interfaces/Visualization
* Neuro-fuzzy systems/Evolutionary optimization & Adaptive systems/Uncertainty management
* Control/Robotics/Computer vision
* Bioinformatics
* Software engineering & Intelligent agents
* Applications/Computational experiments/Case studies
* Biomedical applications
* Hybrid architectures
* Analysis of structures under uncertainty
* Constraints/Soft constraints
* Decision making under uncertainty

Special events

An International Workshop on Analysis of Structures with Uncertainties will be held as part of the conference.

The 4th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd'11 will be held on March 17, 2011, as a satellite event of NAFIPS'2011; detailed information about this workshop will be posted on CoProD's website.

At the conference, a special invited session will be devoted to the 45-th anniversary of the publication of the 1965 paper by Lotfi A. Zadeh that started the field of fuzzy logic.

Paper Submission.

Authors are invited to prepare papers of no more than six (6) pages in the IEEE conference style including results, figures, and references. The papers should be submitted online. Detailed information will be provided on the submission page of this website.
Papers will be peer refereed.
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for possible publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
Student Papers.

We strongly encourage students to submit papers under the mentorship of their faculty advisors. Special best paper awards will be presented at the conference banquet to recognize the accomplishments of students. To qualify, a student or a group of students must be the primary author(s) of the paper. The papers will be judged based on both manuscript content and presentation quality.
Important dates.

* Special session proposals: September 11, 2010
* Papers due: October 11, 2010
* Notification of acceptance of papers: December 17, 2010
* Final papers submission and early registration: February 15, 2011
* Conference: March 18--20, 2011

Conference Venue.

NAFIPS 2011 will be held in a city that stretches the imagination -- El Paso, Texas' westernmost city, surprisingly closer to San Diego than to Houston, and tucked between New Mexico and Mexico. From the campus you can see both states and both countries. El Paso is a city of nearly three-quarters of a million people, which sprawls across hundreds of square miles of desert and rambling foothills. The Franklin Mountains, southern tip of the Rockies, slice El Paso nearly in two. El Paso's dry, sunny, warm desert climate earned the city the nickname ``Sun City". This climate makes it easy to enjoy the outdoor activities that abound in the area, including hiking in the Franklin Mountains, which rise to over 7,000 feet inside the city limits. With its classic Western geography and tri-cultural history, El Paso makes an intriguing place to visit.
For a closer look at the city, watch this video of El Paso and visit the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau website.

NAFIPS 2011 will take place at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Approaching its centennial celebration, UTEP is the second oldest academic component of the University of Texas system. UTEP is a major urban research university in the heart of a thriving international metropolis. It is experiencing an unprecedented growth with a record enrollment of more than 21,000 students in 2009 and a $180-million building boom. With new labs and classrooms to support its rapidly expanding academic and research programs, UTEP is striving to become one of the next top-tier research universities in Texas. Moreover, UTEP is changing the face of higher education - it is ranked second in the nation in awarding undergraduate degrees to Hispanics. As the country's only high-research-activity research university with a student body that is majority Mexican-American, UTEP is committed to providing access and excellence in higher education. You can take a virtual tour of the campus: you will see that UTEP's beautiful campus features a distinctive architectural style derived from the buildings in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
Conference Administration.

For further details, please contact:

* Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, vladik / utep.edu
* Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, mceberio / utep.edu

Honorary Conference Chair

* Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley

General Co-Chairs

* Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso
* Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso

Program Co-Chairs

* Hung T. Nguyen, New Mexico State University, hunguyen / nmsu.edu
* Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso, mceberio@utep.edu

Sponsorship and Publicity Team

* Asli Celikyilmaz, University of California, Berkeley, Chair, asli / eecs.berkeley.edu
* Peral Toktas Palut, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey, peralt / yeditepe.edu.tr