text_combined: estevam rafael hruschka junior bpcemobdcufscarbr ieaaie 2008 twenty first international conference industrial engineering applications applied intelligent systems wroclaw university technology june 1820 2008 wroclaw poland httpwwwieaaiepwrwrocpl call papers special session automatic methods constructing optimizing fuzzy knowledge bases general description session scope broadly speaking fuzzy systems systems whose variables least range states fuzzy sets variable fuzzy sets defined relevant universal set often interval real numbers particular type fuzzy systems namely rulebased fuzzy systems rbfs fuzzy rule systems frs short successfully used several application areas mainly control classification modeling problemsthe key success interest kind systems based ability represent vague uncertain knowledge well transparency express system behavior language easily interpretable human beings construction rbfs process generally known fuzzy modeling requires special attention since greatly impacts system performance fuzzy modeling includes fuzzy rules construction well definition fuzzy sets represent partition problem domains past years methods automatically extract knowledge data sets received special attention researchers number works proposing techniques aiming goals continuously increasing context fuzzy rule based systems due fact provide inherent mechanism automatic construction data sets methods emerge hybridization approaches ones use learning mechanisms clustering methods neural networks genetic algorithms many natureinspired algorithms special session intends forum engineers researchers practitioners throughout world share ideas experiences related proposal implementation application automatic methods constructing optimizing fuzzy systems topics interest include limited fuzzy sets data mining knowledge discovery genetic fuzzy systems neurofuzzy systems evolving fuzzy systems fuzzy clustering fuzzy systems multidimensional scaling fuzzy systems hybrid methods knowledge base construction optimization feature selection fuzzy systems quality issues fuzzy systems maintenance issues fuzzy systems adaptability issues fuzzy systems realworld applications fuzzy systems data stream fuzzy systems structured data future fuzzy modeling knowledge engineering important dates november 15 2007 paper submission february 1 2008 notification acceptance february 28 2008 final submission camera ready papers june 1820 2008 conference paper submission follow paper submission procedure website httpwwwieaaiepwrwrocpl chair heloisa de arruda camargo pbytoqgdcufscarbr cochairs maria carmo nicoletti zoitgdcufscarbr estevam rafael hruschka jrbpcemobdcufscarbr abdelhamid bouchachia dvjjmisysunikluacat invited session program committee arthur ramer unsw australia fernando gomide unicamp brazil emilio corchado universidad de burgos spain juan corchado universidad de salamanca spain marley vellasco pucrio brazil eduardo r hruschka uspsc brazil mario koeppen kit japan joao c sousa tul portugal nelson f f ebecken coppeufrj brazil richard weber dii uc chile _______________________ estevam rafael hruschka junior computer science dept federal university sao carlos dcufscar rod washington luiz km 235 caixa postal po box 676 13565905 são carlos sp brazil phone 55 16 33518617 httpwwwdcufscarbrestevam _______________________ estevam rafael hruschka junior computer science dept federal university sao carlos dcufscar rod washington luiz km 235 caixa postal po box 676 13565905 são carlos sp brazil phone 55 16 33518617 httpwwwdcufscarbrestevam fri 08 aug 2008 033547 0300 uai call papers ieaaie 2008 special session