Committees 

Honorary Chairs
Lotfi A. Zadeh (University of California, Berkeley)
Ali Abbasov (Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of
the Republic of Azerbaijan)


General Co-Chairs
Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta)
Marek Z. Reformat (University of Alberta)

Advisory Co-Chairs
Kaoru Hirota (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Ronald R. Yager (Iona College)

Program Co-Chairs
Oscar Castillo (Tijuana Institute of Technology)
Janusz Kacprzyk (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Focus Sessions Chair
Scott Dick (University of Alberta)

Publicity Chair
Petr Musilek (University of Alberta)

Industrial Liaison Chair
Aminah Robinson Fayek (University of Alberta)

Local Arrangements Chair
Loren Wyard-Scott (University of Alberta)


Program Committee

Giovanni Acampora (Italy)             Rafik Aliev (Azerbaijan)
Tofigh Allahviranloo (Iran) Plamen Angelov (UK)
Valentina Emilia Balas (Romania) Andrzej Bargiela (UK)
Barnabas Bede (USA) Michael Berthold (Germany)
Jim Bezdek (USA) Isabelle Bloch (France)
Fernando Bobillo (Spain) Giovanni Bortolan (Italy)
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (France) Tadeusz Burczynski (Poland)
Humberto Bustince (Spain) Christer Carlsson (Finland)
Joao Carvalho (Portugal) Giovanna Castellano (Italy)
Oscar Castillo (Mexico) Martine Ceberio (USA)
Asli Celikyilmaz (USA) S.M. Chen (Taiwan)
Francisco Chiclana (UK) Wojciech Cholewa (Poland)
Ana Colubi (Spain) Oscar Cordon (Spain)
Bernard deBaets (Belgium) Martine deCock (Belgium)
Valerie Cross (USA) Antonio Di Nola (Italy)
Didier Dubois (France) Petr Ekel (Brasil)
Dimitar Filev (USA) Takeshi Furuhashi (Japan)
Fernando Gomide (Brasil) Siegfried Gottwald (Germany)
Michel Grabisch (France) Salvatore Greco (Italy)
William Gruver (USA) P. Guo (Japan)
Larry Hall (USA) Francisco Herrera (Spain)
Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Spain) Kaoru Hirota (Japan)
Wladyslaw Homenda (Poland) Eyke Hullermeier (Germany)
Hisao Ishibuchi (Japan) Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland)
Abe Kandel (USA) Jim Keller (USA)
Etienne Kerre (Belgium) S.S. Kim (Korea)
Peter Klement (Austria) Lazlo Koczy (Hungary)
Vladik Kreinovich (USA) Rudolf Kruse (Germany)
Chang-Shing Lee (Taiwan) Jonathan Lee (Taiwan)
Yongmin Li (China) Chin-Teng Lin (Taiwan)
Xiaodong Liu (China) Vincenzo Loia (Italy)
Weldon A. Lodwick (USA) Jie Lu (Australia)
Luis Magdalena (Spain) Francesco Marcelloni (Italy)
Luis Martinez (Spain) William Melek (Canada)
Patricia Melin (Mexico) Jerry Mendel (USA)
Radko Mesiar (Slovakia) Wojciech Moczulski (Poland)
Javier Montero (Spain) Hung T. Nguyen (USA)
Vesa Niskanen (Finland) Vilem Novak (Czech Republic)
Sung-Kwun Oh (Korea) Nikhil K. Pal (India)
Sankar R. Pal (India) Ketty Peeva (Bulgaria)
Irina Perfilieva (Czech Republic) Emil Petriu (Canada)
Alfredo Petrosino (Italy) Nick Pizzi (Canada)
Henri Prade (France) Anca Ralescu (USA)
Dan Ralescu (USA) Aminah Robinson (Canada)
Imre Rudas (Hungary) Alireza Sadeghian (Canada)
Sandra Sandri (Brazil) Rudi Seising (Spain)
Sabrina Senator (Italy) Salvatore Sessa (Italy)
Shahnaz Shahbazova (Azerbaijan) Margaret Shipley (USA)
Andrzej Skowron (Poland) Roman Slowinski (Poland)
Zenon Sosnowki (Poland) Tom Sudkamp (USA)
Mike Smith (Canada) Luciano Stefanini (Italy)
Umberto Straccia (Italy) Shun-Feng Su (Taiwan)
Eulelia Szmidt (Poland) Ricardo Tanscheit (Brazil)
Vicenc Torra (Spain) Enric Trillas (Spain)
I. Burhan Turksen (Turkey) Jose Luis Verdegay (Spain)
Lipo Wang (Singapore) Wei Wang (China)
Junzo Watada (Japan) Mark Wierman (USA)
Ronald R Yager (USA) M. Yamada (Japan)
Yiyu Yao (Canada) Hao Ying (USA)
Fusheng Yu (China) ) Slawomir Zadrozny (Poland)
Guangquan Zhang (Australia) Hans Zimmermann (Germany)

October 2012