devoted to FLINS 2008 conference

The 8 International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control hold in Madrid (Spain), September 21-24, 2008, with the participation of scientists coming from 35 different countries and the presentation of 184 papers, selected in a strict peer review process from the 292 submitted papers. A short version of all accepted papers have been published in the FLINS 2008 proceedings (D. Ruan, J. Montero, J. Lu, L. Martínez, P. D'hondt. and E.E. Kerre, “Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control”, World Scientific Proceedings Series on Computer Engineering and Information Science, Vol. 1, 2008 (http://www.mat.ucm.es/congresos/flins2008). FLINS acronym stands for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science (1994), a project launched by 1994 in line with the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) objectives to give PhD and Postdoc researchers the opportunity to carry out future orientated research. But since then, particular initial objectives have evolved into a much wider interest, covering now any research within computational intelligence in decision and control, with the declared objective of producing a real advance in the theory and applications of decision making and control for complex systems. FLINS 2008 is the eighth in a series of conferences on computational intelligence systems, and follows the successful FLINS 1994 in Mol, FLINS 1996 in Mol, FLINS 1998 in Antwerp, FLINS 2000 in Bruges, FLINS 2002 in Gent, FLINS 2004 in Blankenberge, Belgium, and FLINS 2006 in Genova, Italy. Next FLINS conference will be held in Chengdu (China), August 2-4, 2010.