Recent Developments and the New Directions of Research, Foundations, and Applications Volume I: Selected Papers of the 8th World Conference on Soft Computing, February 03-05, 2022, Baku, Azerbaijan

This book is a collection of papers presented during the 8th World Conference on Soft Computing in February 2022. The papers cover multiple areas important for soft computing. Some papers are dedicated to fundamental aspects of soft computing, i.e., fuzzy mathematics, type-2 fuzzy sets, evolutionary-based optimization, aggregation, and neural networks. Others emphasize the application of soft computing methods to data analysis, image processing, decision-making, classification, series prediction, economics, control, and modeling.