The refereed proceedings of the 10th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, IFSA 2003, held in June/July 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The 84 papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected form 318 submissions. The papers address all current issues in the area and present the state of the art in fuzzy sets, fuzzy systems, and fuzzy logic and their applications in a broad variety of fields. The papers are divided in four parts on mathematical issues, methodological issues, application areas, and cross-disciplinary issues.

SVMs have emerged as very successful pattern recognition methods in recent years 16]. SVMs have yielded superior performance in various applications such as; text categorization 15], and face detection 12], content-based image retrieval 6], and learning image similarity 4]. The motivation here is detection of suspicious bags in a security situation. The usual method for bomb personnel is to blow up a suspicious bag, and any explosives contained therein. However, if the bag contains chemical, biological or radiological canisters, this may lead to disastrous results. Furthermore, the bl-...