From Oct. 1 to 4, the 5th Soft Computing Days: A Bilateral China-Italy Workshop, hosted by the School of Mathematical Sciences of Beihang University and organized by the College of Mathematics and Information Science of Jiangxi Normal University, was held in Nanchang. Over 60 experts and scholars from 30 universities at home and abroad, including the University of Salerno, the University of Genoa, the University of Bucharest, Sichuan University, Beijing University of Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Beihang University, Jiangxi Normal University, etc., contributed to and attended the workshop. Twenty academic reports as well as a special round-table conference for cooperation and exchange between China and Italy were scheduled for this conference.

On the morning of Oct.2, the workshop was officially opened. Prof. Wang Zejia, Vice Dean of the College of Mathematics and Information Science of Jiangxi Normal University, delivered an enthusiastic speech in English, in which he briefly introduced the history and status quo of the development of the college, warmly welcomed the experts and scholars from home and abroad, and congratulated the conference beforehand on its success. Prof. Yang Yichuan, Managing Director of China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Vice President of the School of Mathematical Sciences of Beihang University, made an opening speech entitled "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow of Soft Computing Days".

During the workshop, experts and scholars had in-depth exchanges and heated discussions on several research fields related to soft computing and other fields such as logic algebra, rough set, fuzzy set, semigroup, operations research and optimization, economic mathematics, environmental mathematics, granularity computing and soft computing application. Some issues realted to the sixth and seventh workshops which will be held in Italy in 2020 and in China in 2021 respectively, as well as the reform and development of the journal Soft Computing, were also discussed at the conference.

The workshop provides a platform for domestic and foreign scholars who are engaged in the research of soft computing and applied mathematics to fully exchange their academic knowledge and display their latest research results.

Reported by Zhao Xueting and Gan Aiping

Photographed by Duo Kai

Reviewed by Yuan Xing

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Zhao Yue