EUROFUSE - History

HISTORY

FOUNDATION

Ever since EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies) has existed it has provided an organisational framework for EURO Working Groups. The corner-stone for both EURO itself and its working groups was laid in the first EURO Conference in 1975, and the WG on Fuzzy Sets (together with three other groups) was set up at the same time.

During the First IFSA Congress (July 1-6, 1985, Palma de Mallorca), with due permission of the EURO Council, the working group constituted itself as the European Chapter of IFSA.

SINCE 1998

After some years of little activity of this EWG, especially in comparison with other EWG's, Bernard De Baets and János Fodor were approached by EURO officials asking them to take over the coordination of this EWG. Thus, the EURO Working Group on Fuzzy Sets has revived, under the name

At the same time, as IFSA is no longer composed of chapters, EUROFUSE no longer represents the European Chapter of it.

In 1998, the EUSFLAT society was created and now represents Europe in the IFSA council. Since 1999, the creation of Working Groups within EUSFLAT is encouraged and EUROFUSE acts as the Working Group on Operations Research.

PAST CHAIRMEN

Prof Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann (RWTH Aachen, Germany) from 1975 until 1979;
Prof Christer Carlsson (Abo Akademi, Finland) from 1979 until 1986;
Prof Marc Roubens (University of Liege, Belgium) from 1986 until 1993;
Dr Hans Hellendoorn (Siemens AG, Germany) from 1993 until the end of 1997.

PAST MEETINGS

First Joint IFSA-EC and EURO-WG Workshop on Fuzzy Sets

November 25-27, 1986, Warsaw, Poland
Organized by Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
100 participants from 11 European countries

Second Joint IFSA-EC and EURO-WG Workshop on Fuzzy Sets

April 6-8, 1988, Vienna, Austria
Organized by Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
50 papers from 20 European countries

Third Joint IFSA-EC and EURO-WGFS Workshop on Fuzzy Sets

December 11-13, 1990, Visegrád, Hungary
Organized by Dr. Margit Kovács, Computer Center of the Eötvös Loránd University
50 participants from 14 countries
Publication: Special Issue of Annales Univ. Sci. Budapest., Sect. Computatorica 12 (1991)

Fourth Meeting: Joint EUROFUSE-SIC '99 International Conference

May 25-28, 1999, Budapest, Hungary
Organized by Bernard De Baets and János Fodor
113 participants from 22 countries
Proceedings: Proceedings of the Joint EUROFUSE-SIC '99 Internat. Conference (B. De Baets, J. Fodor and L. Koczy, eds.), 1999, 566 p. (ISBN 963 7149 21X)
Publication: Special Issue "EUROFUSE '99" (B. De Baets and J. Fodor, eds.) of JORBEL, Vol. 38, No. 3-4, 1998.

Fifth Meeting: EUROFUSE Workshop on Scheduling and Planning

March 31 - April 1, 2000, Mons, Belgium
Organized by CELOFA and MATHRO (Faculte Polytechnique de Mons)
25 participants
Publication: Special Issue of EJOR in preparation.