The Annual IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) is one of the premier international conference in the field of fuzzy sets and systems and related areas. This year FUZZ-IEEE2026 is a part of the WCCI2026. FUZZ-IEEE 2026 will represent a unique meeting point for scientists and engineers, both from academia and industry, to interact and discuss the latest enhancements and innovations in the field.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topic of the conference will cover all the aspects of theory and applications in fuzzy sets theory and hybridizations with other artificial and computational intelligence techniques. In particular, FUZZ-IEEE 2026 topics include, but are not limited to:

- Mathematical and theoretical foundations of fuzzy sets, measures and integrals
- Hybrid systems of computational intelligence techniques
- Fuzzy web engineering, information retrieval, text mining and social network analysis
- Fuzzy image, speech and signal processing, vision and multimedia
- Industrial, financial, and medical applications
- Fuzzy control and robotics, sensors, fuzzy hardware, fuzzy architectures
- Fuzzy optimization and design, decision analysis and support
- Fuzzy systems design, modeling, identification, fault detection
- Fuzzy data analysis - clustering and classifiers, pattern recognition, bio-informatics
- Optimization, fuzzy decision analysis, multi-criteria, decision making and decision support
- Fuzzy information processing - information extraction and retrieval, fusion, text mining
-Type-2 fuzzy sets, computing with words and granular computing
- fuzzy human computer interaction
- Fuzzy logic, fuzzy inference, and fuzzy system transformation
- Rough sets, imprecise probabilities, possibilities approaches
- Hardware/Software for fuzzy systems
- Fuzzy systems with big data and cloud computing, fuzzy analytics and visualization
- Knowledge discovery, learning, reasoning and knowledge representation
- Fuzzy applications: industrial, financial, biological and medical applications, civil engineering and
geographical information systems, and etc.
- Fuzzy sets and soft computing in social sciences, linguistic summarization, natural language processing
- Computational intelligence in environmental sciences
- Computational Intelligence in safety of critical systems, cyber-physical systems and cyber-security
- Fuzzy Markup Language and standard technologies for fuzzy systems
- Adaptive, hierarchical and hybrid (neuro- and evolutionary-) fuzzy systems
- industry applications
- Emerging related topics

In addition to regular presentations, the conference will include a full program of tutorials and panel sessions together with plenary talks from several well known leaders in the field. Submissions for regular presentations are invited from researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide.

Proposals for Special Sessions are highly welcomed. Each proposal should give a description of the session topic and the names of the contributors plus their paper titles. Papers submitted to special sessions will go through the normal reviewing process.

Proposals for Tutorials are also highly welcomed.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Special Sessions, competitions, tutorials, panels proposal Deadline: November 1, 2025
- Special Sessions, competitions, tutorials, panels proposal Notification: November 21, 2025
- Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026
- Paper Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2026
- Camera-ready paper submission: April 15, 2026
- Early/author registration: May 1, 2026
- Conference: June 21-26, 2026

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Conference Chair
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand 
Susana Vieira, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Conference Program Chairs
Rosa María Rodríquez, University of Jaén, Spain
Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University, UK
Tingwen Huang, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China

Special Session Chair
João M. Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Competition Chair
Adnan Yazici, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Sorbonne Université, France 

Panel Chair
Derek Anderson, University of Missouri-Columbia, US

Keynote and Plenary Chairs
Tufan Kumbasar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 

Mentoring and PDW Chair
Fei Chao, Xiamen University, China

Publicity Chair
Sutasinee Thovuttikul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Qiao Lin, University of Nottingham Ningbo China


Paper Submission and Publication Chairs
Chao Chen, University of Nottingham, UK

COI Chairs
Direnc Pekaslan, University of Nottingham, UK
Faiyaz Doctor, University of Essex, UK

More Information: https://attend.ieee.org/wcci-2026/