IV CBSF - Fourth Brazilian Conference on Fuzzy Systems

November 16 - 18, 2016, Campinas - Brazil

Location

The Fourth Brazilian Conference on Fuzzy Systems will take place at the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computing (IMECC) at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas - Brazil.

Campinas

Campinas, founded in 1842, is a city located at São Paulo State, Brazil. Currently, it has a population of around of 1 million people occupying an area of 801km2. Campinas formation and social economic development dates back to the arriving of farmers to harvest sugar cane and, subsequently, coffee. By the coffee crisis in the early 1930s, the city suffered a changing in its economy, becoming based on services and industries rater than on agriculture. Thenceforward, Campinas has received several workers of many economic areas and expertise from many regions of Brazil and the world that led to the population nowadays. Its development was so strong that allowed Campinas to establishes itself as a center of a metropolitan region of São Paulo State composed for 19 cities having around 2.33 million people.

In a national context, Campinas is ranked at tenth position regarding gross product, according data published in 2012 from of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Besides of its role in Brazilian economy, Campinas is also known as an important center of production and diffusion of advanced technology knowledge. A propellant fact towards such acknowledgment is the foundation of University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 1966. Although being only 50 years old, Unicamp has already developed a strong tradition in education and research. Responsible for about 15% of the whole scientific production in Brazil, Unicamp is one of the best universities in South America. In particular, many prominent researchers in the Brazilian fuzzy community are, in a way or another, linked to Unicamp. After the foundation of Unicamp, Campinas has attracted other research institutes such as Research and Development Center in Telecommunications (CPqD), Renato Archer's Information Technology Center (CTI), and Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM).

Nowadays, Campinas has a large highway network composed by Rodovia dos Bandeirantes (SP-380), Rodovia Anhanguera (SP-330), Rodovia Dom Pedro I (SP 65), Rodovia Santos Dumont (SP 75), and others. The Viracopos International Airport, located at Campinas and close to the main highways to São Paulo, is one of the most important airports in Brazil. Viracopos was elected three times as the best airport of Brazil according a annual satisfaction research with aero-passangers. Campinas has also the second greatest bus terminal of São Paulo State, named Terminal Rodoviário Ramos de Azevedo.

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