The conference topics cover all aspects of fuzzy systems and their applications including, but not limited to: • approximate reasoning and soft computing • fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic • fuzzy inference systems • fuzzy decision making, optimization and design • fuzzy system architectures and hardware • fuzzy methods in statistics and imprecise probability • fuzzy information retrieval • fuzzy pattern recognition and image processing • fuzzy sets in management science • fuzzy control and robotics • fuzzy preference modeling • fuzzy decision analysis • fuzzy sets in operations research • fuzzy database mining and financial forecasting • learning and adaptive fuzzy systems • mathematical foundations of fuzzy systems • possibility theory • soft computing with neural networks • soft computing in evolutionary and hybrid systems • soft computing in intelligent agents