The following topics are dealt with: fuzzy information processing; applications in biology, health and medicine; applications in business and social science; fuzzy classification, clustering and segmentation; fuzzy control theory and applications; database and ontology; decision making; forecasting and prediction; fuzzy inference rules; fuzzy sets; fuzzy logic; fuzzy risk management; intelligent e-services and multi-agent systems for Web-based B2C e-commerce; rough sets and granular computing; soft computing and biosciences; informatics and image processing.