Soft Computing for Decision-Making in Fuzzy Environments: A Tribute to Professor Ioan Dzitac

This paper is dedicated to Professor Ioan Dzitac (1953–2021). Therefore, his life has been briefly presented as well a comprehensive overview of major contributions in the domain soft computing methods fuzzy environment. part special reverential volume, Centenary Birth Lotfi A. Zadeh, whom considered be mentor, and he showed gratitude many times innumerable ways, including by being Guest Editor this Special Issue. had important achievements throughout career: was co-founder Editor-in-Chief an ISI Expanded quoted journal, International Journal Computers Communications & Control; together with L.A. D. Tufis F.G. Filip edited volume “From Natural Language Soft Computing: New Paradigms Artificial Intelligence”; scientific interest focused on different sub-fields: logic applications, environment, artificial intelligence, learning platform, distributed systems internet. He most Some them will paper. Finally, some future trends are discussed.