This book presents papers from FSDM 2022, the 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining. The conference, originally scheduled to take place in Xiamen, China, was held fully online during 4–7 November 2022, due to ongoing restrictions connected with the COVID-19 pandemic.

FSDM has had a short but also a very intense history in reaching this 8th edition of the conference series whose proceedings are published in the prestigious book series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) by IOS Press.

FSDM 2015 [1] was held in Shanghai (China), FSDM 2016 [2] took place in Macau SAR (China), FSDM 2017 [3] went to Hualien, FSDM 2018 [4] travelled to Bangkok (Thailand), FSDM 2019 [5] was held in Kitakyushu City (Japan), FSDM 2020 [6] was online although initially scheduled in Xiamen (China), and finally FSDM 2021 [7] was moved to a virtual conference instead of the initially agreed venue in Seoul (South Korea).

All papers were carefully reviewed by the technical program committee (TPC) and reviewers, bearing in mind the quality, novelty, breadth and depth of the research themes which fall into the FSDM scope. I am very glad to inform you that this year FSDM has received 196 valid submissions. After an intense discussion stage, the committee, which included many experts, decided to accept 47 papers, which represents an acceptance rate of 23.97%. The profile of the authors is very remarkable and the number of full professors who have contributed is very high.

Furthermore, I am very grateful to everyone, especially the program committee members and reviewers, who devoted time to assess the papers.

My particular thanks and regards also go to the FAIA series editors for supporting this conference.

22nd September 2022

Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros

University of Huelva (Spain)

Huelva City, Spain

References

[1] G. Chen, F. Liu, & M. Shojafar (Eds.). (2016). Fuzzy System and Data Mining: proceedings of FSDM 2015 (Vol. 281). IOS Press.

[2] S.L. Sun, A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros, & D.S. Pamuar (Eds.). (2016). Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining II: Proceedings of FSDM 2016 (Vol. 293). IOS Press.

[3] A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros, & K. Li (Eds.). (2017). Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining III: Proceedings of FSDM 2017 (Vol. 299). IOS Press.

[4] A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros, & K. Li (Eds.). (2018). Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining IV: Proceedings of FSDM 2018 (Vol. 309). IOS Press.

[5] A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros (Ed.). (2019). Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining V: Proceedings of FSDM 2019 (Vol. 320). IOS Press.

[6] A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros (Ed.). (2020). Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining VI: Proceedings of FSDM 2020 (Vol. 331). IOS Press.

[7] A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros (Ed.). (2021). Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining VII: Proceedings of FSDM 2021 (Vol. 340). IOS Press.