Recent developments and the new direction in soft-computing foundations and applications selected papers from the 6th world conference on soft computing, May 22-25, 2016, Berkeley, USA - Zadeh, Lotfi A.; Yager, Ronald R.; Shahbazova, Shahnaz N.; Reformat, Marek Z.; Kreinovich, Vladik (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 2018)