The 2005 BISC International Special Event-BISCSE’05 " FORGING THE FRONTIERS" was held in the University of California, Berkeley, “WHERE FUZZY LOGIC BEGAN, from November 3 – 6, 2005. The successful applications of fuzzy logic and it’s rapid growth suggest that the impact of fuzzy logic will be felt increasingly in coming years.

Fuzzy logic is likely to play an especially important role in science and engineering, but eventually its influence may extend much farther. In many ways, fuzzy logic represents a significant paradigm shift in the aims of computing - a shift which reflects the fact that the human mind, unlike present day computers, possesses a remarkable ability to store and process information which is pervasively imprecise, uncertain and lacking in categoricity.

The chapters of the book are evolved from presentations made by selected participants at the meeting and organized in two books. The papers include reports from the different front of soft computing in various industries and address the problems of different fields of research in fuzzy logic, fuzzy set and soft computing. The book provides a collection of forty four (44) articles in two volumes.

OPTIMAL TRAFFIC CONTROL ON SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION

This monograph is concerned with a traffic control problem on a single signalized intersection. This problem has current interest because the existing algorithms do not enable to take advantage of all capabilities of modern, microprocessor based traffic signal controllers. The fact that a great number of intersections (in many countries over 50 % of the total number) are isolated, i.e. not included in “green waves” or area traffic control systems, emphasizes the importance of the traffic control problem on isolated intersections. It is also true that for intersections included in green waves, or area traffic control systems, local “signal plan” has also to be calculated.
The aim of the book is to give an exact mathematical formulation of the optimal traffic control problem and to present the solution method for that problem. The aim is also to include all combinatorial aspects of the problem. It is very important because the problem is in its nature the combinatorial optimization problem. For the sake of that the graph theory and the combinatorial optimization methods are used as the mathematical tools for the solution of these problems. The intention of authors was also to develop algorithm and computer program, which are practically applicable. The goal is achieved and algorithm and program are developed.