FUZZY LOGIC, FUZZY SYSTEMS AND SOFT COMPUTING

Batyrshin I.Z.1,2, Batyrshin T.I.3, Zakuanov R.A.1, Motygullin A.E.1
3Kazan State University
2Institute of Problems of Informatics, Academy of Sciences of Republic of Tatarstan
1Kazan State Technological University
K.Marx st, 68, Kazan, 420015, Russia
E-mail: batyr@emntu.kcn.ru

The Web-cite Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing (http://fuzzy.nm.ru) is aimed on creation of distributed information system and electronic library for informational support of educational programs and research in the area of fuzzy logic and intelligent information systems for Russian speaking users.
Fundamental and applied research works in the area of fuzzy logic are intensively curried out in all the world because of wide industrial applications of intelligent systems based on fuzzy logic. The hundreds of books are published in this area, the dozens of conferences include annually fuzzy logic between they topics and several tens of volumes of proceedings of international conferences are published annually. There exist several INTERNET resources on fuzzy logic in English, but till now the books and journals serve as the main information resources in this area.
In Russia all these numerous information resources are inaccessible because of financial and 1inguistical reasons. Research and text books in this area are published in Russian very rarely. At the same time, the attention to this research area is always increasing as it may be seen from the annual increase of the number of scientific reports on Russian conferences and the increase of Ph.D. and D.Sci. theses in this area. The fuzzy logic is now included in the list of topics of several educational programs affirmed by state educational standard. All of this cause necessity of creation of Russian information system and electronic library on fuzzy logic.
This project was started at the end of October, 2000, under support of FRBR as the part of inter-university project aimed on creation of multidisciplinary electronic library. The cite on fuzzy logic has also informational support of Russian Association on Fuzzy Systems. During all period of existing of this cite the number of visitors increase as linear function of time. It is visited by users from 39 countries and 75 cities of Russia. 
The cite contains bibliography (about 700 titles) on fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence and related topics, references on journals, publishers, research groups in this area, the list of forthcoming conferences and so on. Now the fulltext materials are also locating on the cite. The direction of the development of the cite is its further filling by fulltext indexed materials and references on them, the creation of search engine and so on.