Recent Developments and the New Direction in Soft-Computing Foundations and Applications

Big Data Analytics and Fuzzy Technology: Extracting Information from Social Data.- Personalization and Optimization of Information Retrieval: Adaptive Semantic Layer Approach.- Frequent Itemset Mining for a Combination of Certain and Uncertain Databases.- A New Method for Filling Missing Value Based on the Rough Set Theory.- A Hierarchy-Aware Approach to the Multiaspect Text Categorization Problem.- Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System for Classification of Texts.- Game Approach to Fuzzy Measurement.- Towards real-time Lukasiewicz Fuzzy Systems.- Rankings and Total Orderings on Sets of Generalized Fuzzy Numbers.- Bio-inspired optimization metaheuristic algorithm based on the self-defense of the plants.- Experimenting with a New Population-Based Optimization Technique: FUNgal Growth Inspired (FUNGI) Optimizer.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Minimum Weight Dominating Set Problem.- How to Estimate Resilient Modulus for Unbound Aggregate Materials: A Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical Formula.- Development of NARX based neural network models for predicting air quality near busy urban corridors.- Sustainability Index: A fuzzy Approach for a municipal decision support system.