1996 Biennial Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - Nafips: June 19-22, 1996, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
Michael H. Smith · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1996
The theme of this year's conference is New Frontiers in Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing. The past few years have witnessed a crystallization of soft computing as a distinct body of concepts and techniques which is orientated toward the conception and design of intelligent systems. Soft computing is not a single methodology. Rather it is a partnership of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing and probabilistic reasoning, with the latter subsuming genetic algorithms, chaotic systems, belief networks and parts of learning theory.