This volume contains the proceedings of the Second Joint IFSA-EC and
EURO-WGFS Workshop on Progress in Fuzzy Sets in Europe held on April 6
-8, 1989 in Vienna, Austria. The workshop was organized by Prof. Dr.
Wolfgang H. Janko from the University of Economics in Vienna under the
auspices of IFSA-EC, the European chapter of the International Fuzzy
Systems Association, and EURO-WGFS, the working group on Fuzzy Sets of
the Association of Eu- ropean Operational Research Societies. The
workshop gathered more than 30 participants coming from Western European
countries (Austria, Bel- gium, England, Germany, Finland, France,
Hungary, Italy, Scotland and Spain) Eastern European countries
(Bulgaria, the German Federal Repu- blic, Hungary and Poland) and
non-European countries such as China and Japan. The 15 selected and
refereed papers included in the volume are in prin- ciple the author's
own versions, with limited editorial changes and small corrections. They
are arranged in alphabetical order. I wish to thank all the contributors
for their valuable papers and an outstan- ding cooperation in the
editorial project. I also would like to express my sincere thanks to
Professor Dr. H. J. Zimmermann for the cooperation in the refereeing
procedure.