The International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA) is a comprehensive reference journal, dedicated to presenting the most innovative systematic and practical facets of fuzzy technologies to students, scholars, and academicians, as well as practitioners, engineers and professionals. Focusing on fuzzy decision support, expert, reasoning and rule-based systems, IJFSA presents up-to-date theoretical views on fuzzy computing, while highlighting empirical approaches useful to real-world utilization. Successes, challenges, and assorted strategies for best usage of fuzzy system applications are explained and discussed.