by Emanuele Salerno and Simon Wilson

An invited session on computational learning methods for unsupervised segmentation was held on 14 September in the framework of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007) in Vietri sul Mare, Italy. This initiative was taken by the MUSCLE 'e-team' on unsupervised segmentation and classification of multichannel data. MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning) is a European Network of Excellence managed by ERCIM.

by Thomas Lux

The 14th workshop of the ERCIM Working Group Environmental Modelling was held on 3-4 September 2007 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

by Petr Hajek

The sixth workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Soft Computing, held on 11-14 September in Ostrava, Czech Republic jointly with the EUSFLAT 2007 conference (see http://www.eusflat2007.cz/) was the last workshop of the ERCIM Working Group. The group decided to cease its activity because a shift of interest had taken place. The group members plan to apply for a new ERCIM Working Group in the near future with the provisional title 'Mathematical Fuzzy Logic.