The conference organizers have approved our proposal for a special interval-related session at the Second International Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing in Economics and Finance FSSCEF 2006 June 28-July 01, 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia (conference call for papers can also be viewed here). SCOPE OF THE INTERVAL SESSION In financial and economic situations, most parameters are known with uncertainty. It is therefore important to take this uncertainty into account when processing financial and economic data. In some cases, the only information we have is the bounds for a parameter, i.e., we only know the interval that is guaranteed to contain the actual value of this parameter. To handle such interval uncertainty, we must use interval computations techniques specifically designed for handling this type of uncertainty. In many real-life situations, instead of (or in addition to) an interval guaranteed to contain the value of the parameter, we have a nested family of intervals which contain this parameter with different degree of certainty -- i.e., in effect, we have a fuzzy set. It is well known that often, one of the most efficient ways of processing such fuzzy data is to process the corresponding intervals layer-by-layer. The proposed session will cover: * applications of interval computation techniques to finance and economics problems * interval computation techniques which are of potential use to finance and economic problems * inter-relation between interval and fuzzy techniques, especially in view of application to finance and economic problems ORGANIZERS (in alphabetic order) * Vladik Kreinovich University of Texas at El Paso, USA vladik@utep.edu * Siegfried Rump Inst. f. Computer Science III Technical University Hamburg-Harburg Hamburg, Germany rump@tu-harburg.de SUBMISSION: please submit your abstracts and papers to us, copy to the conference organizers at an@ifel.ru; accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of conference. DEADLINES: * full papers in pdf format, no longer than 8 pages, including authors’ names, affiliations, mailing address, E-mail, telephone and fax numbers, are due on March 30, 2006. See you in St. Petersburg, Russia! Siegfried and VladikBack to the Previous 2006 Conferences part of the Interval Computations website