2nd International Workshop on Evolving Fuzzy Systems EFS'06, Ambelside, Lake District, 7-9 September 2006

目前的主要挑战是设计下一代智能系统，通过使用借鉴自然的计算方法，使其具有更高水平的灵活性和自主性。一个解决这些挑战的新领域正在以进化为基础的系统和以推理为基础的系统的交叉路口出现，这些系统比现有的适应性系统更灵活。这一新兴领域的发展模糊系统的目标是复杂的过程，通过开发新的学习方法和计算高效的算法实时应用。由于认识到这一领域日益增长的重要性，IEEE计算智能学会模糊系统技术委员会于2004年决定成立一个由首席研究员所属的工作组。该工作队于2005年3月17日至19日在西班牙格拉纳达举行了第一次讲习班。《IEEE模糊系统汇刊》（IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems）现在准备了一个关于同一主题的特刊。在第一次研讨会期间决定在英国安贝尔赛德组织第二次关于进化模糊系统的研讨会。在这方面，本提案中心的研讨会是IEEE特别工作组组织的系列活动中的下一个，也是扩大其对更广泛受众的吸引力的一次尝试。这一新兴领域目前正在形成，提议的研讨会将是一个重要的事件，活跃在这一领域的学术界和工业界的研究人员将会面并讨论当前的成就、问题和未来的方向。该活动将在世界范围内集中研究能够在不可预测（可能是恶劣）的环境中有效运行而无需人为干预的自主开发系统的时刻举行，并涉及几个重要的应用领域，包括先进制造，航空航天，水下勘探，国防，安全和监视等。主要在美国和远东地区（日本、台湾、新西兰）取得了重大进展。提议的研讨会将有助于确保英国被公认为这一新兴领域的主要研究中心之一。此外，研讨会将是一个很好的平台，推出兰开斯特新的智能系统研究实验室，其中包括一些移动机器人。本次研讨会在技术上得到了IEEE（计算智能学会与系统、人类与控制论学会）、IFSA（国际模糊系统协会）、EUSFLAT（欧洲模糊系统与技术学会）等知名组织的认可，并将得到兰开斯特大学和通信系统系的支持。

The main challenge today is to design the next generation of intelligent systems that are able to have a higher level of flexibility and autonomy by using computational methods that borrow from Nature. A new area that is addressing these challenges is now emerging on the cross-roads of evolution-based and reasoning-based systems that are more flexible than existing adaptive systems.This emerging area of evolving fuzzy systems targets complex processes by developing novel learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. In recognition of the growing importance of this area the IEEE Technical Committee on Fuzzy Systems within the Computational Intelligence Society decided in 2004 to set up a Task Force to which the Principal Investigator belongs. This Task Force had its First Workshop in Granada, Spain (17-19 March, 2005). A special issue on the same topic is now prepared by the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. It was decided during the first Workshop to organize the second Workshop on Evolving Fuzzy Systems in Ambelside, UK. In this respect, the Workshop in the centre of this proposal is the next in the series organized by the IEEE Task Force and is also an attempt to broaden its appeal to a wider audience.This new emerging field is currently being shaped and the proposed Workshop will be an important event at which researchers from academia and industry active in this area will meet and discuss current achievements, problems and future directions. The event will take place at a moment in time when research on self-developing systems, that are capable of operating efficiently in unpredictable (possibly harsh) environment without human intervention, is intensively pursued world-wide and in relation to several important application areas including advanced manufacturing, aerospace, underwater exploration, defence, security and surveillance etc. Significant progress is mainly observed in the USA and the Far East (Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand). The proposed Workshop will help to ensure that the UK is recognized as one of the leading centres for research in this emerging area. In addition, the Workshop will be an excellent platform to launch the new Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory at Lancaster that includes a number of mobile robots. The Workshop is technically endorsed by such prestigious organizations as IEEE (Computational Intelligence Society and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society), IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), EUSFLAT (EUropean Society on Fuzzy Systems And Technology) and will be supported by Lancaster University and the Department of Communication Systems.