Dear All,
please, find below the call for paper of the “Application of Multivariate Logic in Transportation Problems” session within the 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications.
Sorry for any post-crossing.
Best Regards

Michele Ottomanelli,
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Faculty of Engineering of Taranto - Polytechnic University of Bari
Dep. of Evironmental Engineering and for Sustainable Development
TARANTO (Italy)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mauro Dell'Orco 
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:44 AM
Subject: call for paper - WSC9


Dear friends,

        I am happy to inform you that I will be chair in the session on Soft Computing in Tranportation during 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (September 20th - October 8th, 2004), organized by World Federation of Soft Computing (WFSC).  
         Understanding of the decision making process of humans is an essential component of the transportation planning process. Given a set of stimuli in the form of transportation service alternatives, humans, individually or collectively, make certain decisions or choices. To predict these responses and choices, models of human stimulus-response pattern are used. Since Uncertainty is an inseparable part of the problem when dealing with human reasoning process, it is consequently crucial in problems of transportation planning and engineering. 
          The connection among Uncertainty and travelers’ choices has become the central subject in recent years in view of the worldwide effort to advance methods and models for transportation planning. 

This special session of WSC9 devoted to “Application of Multivariate Logic in Transportation Problems”, aims to review the recent progresses in the subject and to develop greater understanding of uncertainty treatment in transportation problems, as well as building a greater circle of researchers interested in this discipline. 

        Topics concern both theory and innovative applications to real world problems. Especially, advance in applications of Uncertainty Treatment, Possibility Theory, Fuzzy Logic, Soft Computing, lnformation and Choice applied to transportation engineering and planning problems, with emphasis to Travel demand forecasting, Transportation planning, land use and policy making processes, Intelligent Transportation Systems.

You are invited to contribute the paper for this special session. For your reference,  I am herewith enclosing the information brochure.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the session. 
Hoping to receive your contribution, thank you in advance

Mauro Dell'Orco
Polytechnic University of Bari
Dept. of Highways and Transportation
Ph: +39 080 5963327
Fax +39 080 5963329


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WSC9: 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial 
Applications

September 20th - October 08th, 2004

** On the World Wide Web **

Conference URL: http://www.cs.nmt.edu/~wsc9/
Mirror: http://wsc9.softcomputing.net/