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Special Issue on Six Decades of Scientific Contributions of Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh...
 
Special Issue on Six Decades of Scientific Contributions
of
Lotfi A. Zadeh … 1950-2010
Iranica Scientia ( Established in 1991)
www.scientiairanica.com
(ISSN 1026 – 3098)
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GUEST EDITOR : Mo M. Jamshidi, Lutcher Brown Endowed Chaired Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
Overview
Lotfi Zadeh is a man beyond description by his peers and friends. His over six decades of constant contributions to electrical engineering and computer science is a remarkable achievement to put it very mildly. Lotfi was born in Baku, Azerbaijan (to an Iranian father and a Russian mother) and grew up in Tehran, Iran. He earned his B.S.E.E. from the University of Tehran in 1942, and his M.S.E.E. from MIT in 1946. He went on to receive a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1949, where he remained on faculty until 1959, and then moved to the University of California, Berkeley where he is now a professor emeritus, Professor in the Graduate School and Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) since 1991. He lives in Berkeley, CA with his lovely wife of 63 years Fay Zadeh.
Objective : The main objective of this special issue is to bring to light ALL scientific contributions of Lotfi for the past 6 decades. These include 2 primary periods: 1950 – 1965 (Circuits and systems era) and 1965 to 2010 (Fuzzy systems and Computing with words era). Some may not be familiar that before Lotfi published his seminal paper on "Fuzzy Sets" in Journal Information and Control in 1965, he was already a legendary contributor to Circuits and Systems theories. His 1963 McGraw Hill Linear System Theory Book, co-authored with Charlie Desoer is still a remarkable masterpiece in linear system theory today.
Potential authors are invited to submit a 10-page articles featuring a topic from the following list or suggest one which may be missing there and indicate a section on their personal relation with Lotfi, how they met him and what they remember from him from past or present association.
The guest editor is a privileged friend of Lotfi for 42 years when he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and first met Lotfi in the summer of 1968 at UC Berkeley.
Topics
Circuit, systems and identification theory, linear systems, Weiner theory of prediction, nonlinear filtering, automata theory, etc.
Fuzzy sets, logic, control, graph, probabilities, information, granulation, soft computing, etc.
Applications of fuzzy systems
Computing with words, Natural language computing, etc.
Personal anecdotes and comments
Schedule
Submission deadline (Direct submission via Guest Editor): July 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2010
Submission of revised manuscript: October 15, 2010
Publication date: 4th Quarter, 2010 or First Quarter, 2011 (Tentative)
Manuscript submissions style is similar to IEEE and information for contributions can be obtained at this link: http://www.scientiairanica.com/PDF/NotesforContributors.pdf
Guest Editor: Prof. Mo Jamshidi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Complex Systems Engineering Center, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX 78249 USA, Email: moj@wacong.org
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