Photo: Elena Kononova

This week, the University of Latvia (UL) is hosting the international conference EUSFLAT 2025 (The 14th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology). The event is organized by the Department of Mathematics at the UL Faculty of Science and Technology in collaboration with the EUSFLAT. The conference series is held biennially. During the event, the General Assembly is also scheduled to take place.

EUSFLAT is a non-profit European society devoted to promote and disseminate the methods, techniques and developments of Fuzzy Logic and related technologies. Founded in 1999, EUSFLAT encourages the scientific communication and collaboration among its members, organizing, promoting and sponsoring conferences, workshops and seminars. Indeed, the biannual EUSFLAT conferences bring together researchers in Fuzzy Logic and related technologies from all over the world. The society advises associates and companies on subjects regarding Fuzzy Logic and it is a member of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) representing the European researchers at the IFSA council.

A brief overview of the conference activities:

DAY 1 — July 21, 2025

We had a great first day of the EUSFLAT 2025 conference. After the opening ceremony with contributions of the conference General Chairs Susana Montes (also current President, Universidad de Oviedo - UniOvi), Martin Stepnicka  (Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling - IRAFM, Ostravská univerzita), Svetlana Asmus (Latvijas Universitāte), the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology Aigars Ekers (Latvijas Universitāte), and the Organizing Chair Olga Grigorenko (Latvijas Universitāte), there was a first plenary talk given by Oscar Cordon (Universidad de Granada). We had a great chance to listen to spectacular applications of computational intelligence in forensic anthropology. 

The afternoon sessions started with the second plenary talk that was given by Irina Perfilieva (Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling - IRAFM, Ostravská univerzita) that summarized the scientific contribution of our member and friend, Prof. Alexander Sostak, the father of the fuzzy logic school in Latvia, who unexpectedly passed away before we could raise our glasses to celebrate the opening of this beautiful conference that - we will never forget Sasha, you will remain in our hearts forever. 

The plenary lecture was then followed by a Round Table that was again dedicated to Prof. Alexander Sostak. Many thanks to Janusz Kacprzyk (IBSPAN), Bernard De Baets (Universiteit Gent), Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso), Irina Perfilieva, and Juan-José Minana (Universitat Politècnica de València UPV).

The whole day was full of individual lectures in three parallel sessions and we closed it with a splendid icebreaker.

DAY 2 — July 22, 2025

The second day of the EUSFLAT 2025 conference kept the smooth yet fantastic pace from the first day. The day started with a splendid plenary talk given by Humberto Bustince (UPNA). The afternoon talk was given by energic Katarzyna Kaczmarek-Majer (IBSPAN and Ostravská univerzita). 

Apart from many interesting lectures, we also had a round table discussion. The speakers were Oscar Cordon (Universidad de Granada), Irina Perfilieva (Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling - IRAFM, Ostravská univerzita), Bernard De Baets (Universiteit Gent), Vladik Kreinovich (University of Texas at El Paso), Janusz Kacprzyk (IBSPAN), and Ulrich Bodenhofer (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria), the role of the moderator was taken by Martin Stepnicka (Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling - IRAFM, Ostravská univerzita).

 

More updates will follow.


Conference program and abstract book: https://eusflat2025.eu 

Conference proceedings (LNCS, Springer): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-97225-6 

Photo gallery: https://elena.gallery.photo/gallery/eusflat2025/ 

EUSFLAT official website: https://www.eusflat.org 


After the conference (July 28 – August 1, 2025), the 6th European Summer School on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (SFLA 2025) will take place.

Summer school website: https://www.sfla2025.eu 

 

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