Applied Soft Computing is an international journal promoting an integrated view of soft computing to solve real life problems. Soft computing is a collection of methodologies, which aim to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost. The focus is to publish the highest quality research in application and convergence of the areas of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, Rough Sets and other similar techniques to address real world complexities.

Applied Soft Computing is a rolling publication: articles are published as soon as the editor-in-chief has accepted them. Therefore, the web site will continuously be updated with new articles and the publication time will be short.

Major Topics:

The scope of this journal covers the following soft computing and related techniques, interactions between several soft computing techniques, and their industrial applications:

• Ant Colony
• Chaos Theory
• Evolutionary Computing
• Fuzzy Computing
• Hybrid Methods
• Immunological Computing
• Morphic Computing
• Neuro Computing
• Particle Swarm
• Probabilistic Computing
• Rough Sets
• Wavelet

The application areas of interest include but are not limited to applications of soft computing to:

• Agricultural Machinery and Produce
• Autonomous Reasoning
• Bio-inspired Systems
• Biomedical Engineering
• Condition Monitoring
• Consumer Electronics
• Data Mining
• Data Visualisation
• Decision Support
• Engineering Design Optimisation
• Fault Diagnosis
• Human-Machine Interface
• Industrial Electronics
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Internet Tools
• Manufacturing Systems
• Motion Control and Power Electronics
• Multi-objective Optimisation
• Nano and Micro-systems
• Power and Energy
• Process and System Control
• Process Optimisation
• Reactive Distributed AI
• Robotics
• Signal or Image Processing
• System Identification and Modelling
• Systems Integration
• Telecommunications
• Time Series Prediction
• Virtual Reality
• Vision or Pattern Recognition

technical papers (20-30 pages, at most 50 pages)
state of the art survey papers (but see Section on Review Articles below)
commentaries, and letters (see Section on Letter Articles below).

Editor-in-Chief
M. Köppen
Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4, Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502 JAPAN Email M. Köppen
Founding Editor-in-Chief
R. Roy
University of London, London, United Kingdom
Managing Editor
B. van Vlijmen
University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Assistant Managing Editor
S. Dadkhah
Kyushu Institute of Technology
Honorary Editor
L.A. Zadeh †
University of California Berkeley Division of Computer Science, Berkeley, California, CA 94720-1776, United States
Associate Editors
O. Castillo
Technological Institute of Tijuana Division of Graduate Studies and Research, Calzada Tecnologico s/n Fracc. Tomas Aquino, 22379, Tijuana, Mexico
C.A. Coello
Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Computer Department, Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional No. 2508, D.F. 07300, Ciudad de México, Mexico
I. de Falco
Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking National Research Council Branch of Naples, via Castellino Pietro 111, Napoli, Italy
U. Fiore
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
X.-Z. Gao
University of Eastern Finland School of Computing Kuopio, FI-70211, KUOPIO, Finland
P. Gómez-Pérez
University Center of Defense at the Naval Military School of Marín, Marín, Pontevedra, Spain
E. Herrera-Viedma
University of Granada Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Codigo Correspondencia Para Organismos Oficiales, 18071, Granada, Spain
T.W. Liao
Louisiana State University Department of Construction Management and Industrial Engineering, PFT Hall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803-6419, United States
M. Mernik
University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Koroška cesta 46, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia
W. Pedrycz
University of Alberta Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 9107 - 116 Street, Edmonton, T6G 2V4, Alberta, Canada
M. Randall
Bond University Faculty of Business, Brisbane, 4229, Queensland, Australia
P.N. Suganthan
Nanyang Technological University, EEE, NTU, Singapore, Singapore, 639798
B. Tütmez
Inonu University, 44280, Malatya, Turkey
R. Weber
University of Chile Department of Industrial Engineering, Avda Republica 701, Santiago, Chile
M. Zhang
Victoria University of Wellington School of Engineering and Computer Science, Cotton Building Rm 358, P.O Box 600, 6140, Wellington, New Zealand
Editorial Board
M.B. Abdelhalim
Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport College of Computing and Information Technology - Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
J. Abonyi
University of Pannonia, Veszprem, Hungary
A. Acan
Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Cyprus
B. Ahmed
Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
V. H. C. de Albuquerque
University of Fortaleza, Graduate Program in Applied (PPGIA); Laboratory of Bioinformatics (LABIO), Fortaleza - CE, Brazil
R. Allmendinger
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
H. Amirian
Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
B. K. Ane
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
J. Antucheviciene
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania
D.R.B. Araujo
Federal University of Pernambuco Department of Statistics, RECIFE, Brazil
K. Atanassov
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofiya, Bulgaria
M. Babbar-Sebens
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
R. Ballini
State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
C.J.A. Bastos-Filho
University of Pernambuco, RECIFE, Brazil
G. Beligiannis
University of Patras Agrinio Campus, Agrinio, Greece
S. Bhattacharyya
RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India
C. Bravo
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
W. Browne
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
M.Y. Chen
National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
R.S. Chen
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
T.C.T. Chen
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
R. Cheng
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
B. Costa
Facebook Inc, Menlo Park, California, United States
R. González Crespo
International University of Rioja - Logrono Campus, Logrono, Spain
E. Cuevas, PhD
University of Guadalajara University Center of Exact Sciences and Engineering, Guadalajara, Mexico
P. D'Urso
University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
K. Dahal
University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
S. Das
Indian Statistical Institute Computer and Communication Sciences Division, Kolkata, India
J. De Andrés Sànchez
Rovira and Virgili University Business Management Department, Reus, Spain
A. Della Cioppa
University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
F. Diaz Gomez
University of Valladolid Computer Engineering School, Segovia, Spain
N. El-Bendary
Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport College of Computing and Information Technology, Giza, Egypt
F. Espinosa
University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
M.W.T. Fakhr
Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport College of Computing and Information Technology - Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
R. Falcon
Larus Technologies Corporation, Ottawa, Canada
F. Fernández Riverola
University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
A. Ferreira
University of Lisbon Higher Technical Institute, Lisboa, Portugal
S. Fidanova
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofiya, Bulgaria
B. Filipic
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
G. Folino
Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking National Research Council, Rende, Italy
W. Frölich
University of Silesia Institute of Computer Science, Sosnowiec, Poland
A. Giagkos
Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
M. Gündüz
Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
P. Gupta
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
C. Gutiérrez Antonio
Autonomous University of Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
H. Hadjali
ENSMA, Engineer School, Futuroscope Chasseneuil Cedex, France
W.C. Hong
Jiangsu Normal University School of Computer Science and Technology, Xuzhou, China
C.C. Huang
National Chi Nan University, Puli, Taiwan
M. Hudec
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
J.A. Iglesias
University Carlos III of Madrid - Getafe Campus, Getafe, Spain
A. Jastrzebska
Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland
Z.H. Jia
Anhui University School of Computer Science and Technology, Hefei, China
M.S. Kiran
Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
H. Kodaz
Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
B. Krawczyk
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
R. Krohling
Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria - ES, Brazil
R.J. Kuo
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
X.N. Li
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
S.-H. (Alex) Liu
California State University Fresno, Fresno, California, United States
L. Livi
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
A. Castro López
University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
P. Lorrentz
University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
H. Lu
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan
W.J. Luo
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
L. Meng
Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living, Singapore, Singapore
S. Mirjalili
Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
A.K. Muda
Technical University of Malaysia Malacca Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Melaka, Malaysia
P.K. Muhuri
South Asian University, New Delhi, India
M. Nilashi
University of Technology Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
A. Núñez
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
P. Ong
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor, Malaysia
K. Onishi
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan
F. Palmieri
University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
Y.P. Pan
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
R. Perez de Prado
University of Jaen Telecommunications Engineering Department, Linares, Spain
K. Polat
Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
C. Porcel
University of Jaén, Jaen, Spain
R.-E. Precup
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
A. Sadeghian
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J.L. Salmeron
Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain
M. Sayed-Mouchaweh
IMT Lille Douai, Paris, France
A. Singh
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
L.H. Son
Vietnam National University, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
A. Song
RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
A.H. Tan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
S. Tavakoli
University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran, Islamic Republic of
G.A. Trunfio
University of Sassari Department of Architecture Design and Town Planning, Alghero, Italy
G. Ulutagay
Izmir University, İzmir, Turkey
R. Varela
University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
J. Vaščák
Technical University of Košice, Kosice, Slovakia
M. Vecchio, PhD
eCampus University, Faculty of Engineering, Novedrate (CO), Italy
D.N. Vo
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
R. Wang
Massey University - Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand
T. Weise
Hefei University of Technology, China
K.C. Wong
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
S. Y. Wong
Xiamen University - Malaysia, Sepang, Malaysia
B. Xue
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Y. Yongping Pan
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
P. Zanetti
University of Naples - Parthenope, Napoli, Italy
Z. Zeng
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
B.-T. Zhang
Seoul National University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Y.J. Zheng
Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
Former Associate Editors
T. Furuhashi
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
D.E. Goldberg
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
S.J. Ovaska
Aalto University Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto, Finland
Y. Suzuki
Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan