Fuzzy Systems Engineering: Toward Human-Centric Computing

Witold Pedrycz, PhD, is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Computational Intelligence at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include granular computing, including fuzzy set technology, neural networks and evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, data mining, and emerging behavior and adaptive systems. He has authored or edited eight books, over 200 papers in journals or volumes, and over forty conference papers. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFSA.

Fernando Gomide, PhD, teaches in the Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo, Brazil. His areas of interest include fuzzy sets and logic, artificial intelligence, and genetic algorithms.