The scientific research proposal is part of the task to be carried out in academic and research institutions around the world. This is a complex decision-making problem, because decision-makers must determine the projects that are appropriate to the subjects addressed by the institution, those projects must be achievable within a reasonable deadline, they must have the financial means and the budget necessary to be carried out, the staff must be sufficiently qualified and an optimum number of personnel must be available to succeed the tasks and not interfere with other research projects.

Neutrosophy as science has inclusive attributes that make possible to extract the contributions of neutral values in the analysis of data sets; it builds a unified field of logic for transdisciplinary studies that transcend the boundaries between natural and social sciences. Neutral philosophy seeks to solve the problems of indeterminacy that appear universally, to reform the current natural or social sciences, with an open methodology to promote innovation. The research products related in this special issue start from the premise that the difficulty is not the complexity of the social environment, but the instrumental obsolescence to observe, interpret and manage that complexity, there are bold approaches and proposals for valid solutions that come to enrich the universe of resolution through the use of neutral methods. In the last year, the use of tools related to neutrosophy and its application to the social sciences, modeling of social phenomena based on simulation agents, problems associated with health, psychology, education, environmental management and sustainability solutions and legal sciences has increased in the events organized by the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Ciencias Neutrosoficas (ALCN in Spanish). The methods of higher incidence are cognitive maps, neutral Iadovs, neutral Delphi, analytical hierarchy process methods, neutral statistics, neutral personality models, among the most significant. In this special issue, there is a predominance of research from Ecuadorian universities, demonstrating how neutrosophy and its methods are consolidated as instruments of analysis, inference and research validation.

Contributors to current issue (listed in papers’ order): Noel Batista Hernández; C.V. Valenzuela Chicaiza; O.G. Arciniegas Paspuel; P.Y. Carrera Cuesta; D.R. Álvarez Hernández, C.E. Pozo Hernández; E.T. Mejía Álvarez; E.T. Villa Shagnay; S. Guerrón Enríquez; M.A. Tello Cadena; E.M. Pinos Medina; M. Jaramillo Burgos; F. Jara Vaca; R. Aguilar Berrezueta; E.M. Sandoval; B. Villalta Jadán; D. Palma Rivera; L.E. Valencia Cruzaty; M. Reyes Tomalá; C.M. Castillo Gallo, M.R. Velázquez; M.R. Mena Peralta; L. Ricardo Domínguez; D. Andrade Santamaría; X.Cangas Oña; M. Jaramillo Burgos; G.A. Calderón Vallejo; M. Orellana Cepeda; M.F. Galarza Villalba; M.S. Serrano Viteri; I. Ramos Castro; F. Vera Díaz; N.P. Lastra Calderón; D.L. Villarruel Delgado; D. Sandoval Malquín; E. Araujo Guerrón; A.R. Pupo Kairuz; D.V. Ponce Ruiz; F. Viteri Pita; F.S. Bustillo Mena; M.E. Narváez Jaramillo; M.A. Guerrero Ayala; D.A. Flores Jurado; O.M. Alonzo Pico; A.I. Utrera Velázquez; D.A. García Coello; E. Real Garlobo; C. Escobar Vinueza; R.C. Hernández Infante; M.E. Infante Miranda; F.R. Rivadeneira Enríquez; C.J. Galeano Páez; R.M. Montalvo Pantoja; K.A. Narváez Ortiz; S. Guaytarilla Salas; A.D. Rodríguez Lara; C.P. Rendón Tello; J. Almeida Blacio; R. Hurtado Guevara; L.G. Guallpa Zatán; H.J. Paillacho Chicaiza; J. Yaguar Mariño; M. Aguilar Carrión; D.A. Viteri Intriago; L. Álvarez Gómez; D. Ponce Ruiz; L.H. Carrión Hurtado; W.R. Salas Espín; M. Benalcázar Paladines; L. Moreira Rosales; L.K. Baque Villanueva; M.A. Mendoza; R. Salcedo; A.M. Izquierdo Morán; M.A. Checa Cabrera; B.J. Ipiales Chasiguano; A.L. Sandoval Pillajo; R. Díaz Vázquez; N.P. Becerra Arévalo; M.F. Calles Carrasco; John Luis Toasa Espinoza; M. Velasteguí Córdova; V.M. Parrales Carvajal; M.T. Macías Valverde; R. Aguas Pután; N. García Arias; N. Quevedo Arnaiz; S. Gavilánez Villamarín; M. Cleonares Borbor; M.F. Galarza Villalba; R. Aguas Pután; J. Mora Romero; J.E. Espìn Oviedo; L.J. Molina Chalacán; L.O. Albarracín Zambrano; E.J. Jalón Arias; A. Zúñiga Paredes; F. Smarandache; J. Estupiñán Ricardo; E. González Caballero; M.Y. Leyva Vázquez.

The main objective of this special issue is to divulge the applicability of the Neutrosophic Theory and to explore the possibilities and advantages of neutrosophic tools, through both the presentation of thorough research and case studies in solving social problems in Latin America. The best presentations discussed at the III International Congress of Educational Research and University Innovation, turned into papers, show us the capacity for socialization of neutrosophic knowledge and its link with this science of validation and consolidation of scientific knowledge. This publication with authors from 11 countries that we place in the hands of the international scientific community, constitutes an example of how in Latin America the Neutrosophy is contributing to complex solutions based on the results of scientific research carried out by teachers and students committed to the social responsibility of continuing to progress for the benefit of humanity.

This tenth volume of Collected Papers includes 86 papers in English and Spanish languages comprising 972 pages, written between 2014-2022 by the author alone or in collaboration with the following 105 co-authors (alphabetically ordered) from 26 countries: Abu Sufian, Ali Hassan, Ali Safaa Sadiq, Anirudha Ghosh, Assia Bakali, Atiqe Ur Rahman, Laura Bogdan, Willem K.M. Brauers, Erick González Caballero, Fausto Cavallaro, Gavrilă Calefariu, T. Chalapathi, Victor Christianto, Mihaela Colhon, Sergiu Boris Cononovici, Mamoni Dhar, Irfan Deli, Rebeca Escobar-Jara, Alexandru Gal, N. Gandotra, Sudipta Gayen, Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, Noel Batista Hernández, Hongnian Yu, Hongbo Wang, Mihaiela Iliescu, F. Nirmala Irudayam, Sripati Jha, Darjan Karabašević, T. Katican, Bakhtawar Ali Khan, Hina Khan, Volodymyr Krasnoholovets, R. Kiran Kumar, Manoranjan Kumar Singh, Ranjan Kumar, M. Lathamaheswari, Yasar Mahmood, Nivetha Martin, Adrian Mărgean, Octavian Melinte, Mingcong Deng, Marcel Migdalovici, Monika Moga, Sana Moin, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Mohamed Elhoseny, Rehab Mohamed, Mohamed Talea, Kalyan Mondal, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Aslam Malik, Muhammad Ihsan, Muhammad Naveed Jafar, Muhammad Rayees Ahmad, Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Saqlain, Muhammad Shabir, Mujahid Abbas, Mumtaz Ali, Radu I. Munteanu, Ghulam Murtaza, Munazza Naz, Tahsin Oner, ‪Gabrijela Popović, Surapati Pramanik, R. Priya, S.P. Priyadharshini, Midha Qayyum, Quang-Thinh Bui, Shazia Rana, Akbara Rezaei, Jesús Estupiñán Ricardo, Rıdvan Sahin, Saeeda Mirvakili, Said Broumi, A. A. Salama, Flavius Aurelian Sârbu, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Javid Shabbir, Shio Gai Quek, Son Hoang Le, Florentin Smarandache, Dragiša Stanujkić, S. Sudha, Taha Yasin Ozturk, Zaigham Tahir, The Houw Iong, Ayse Topal, Alptekin Ulutaș, Maikel Yelandi Leyva Vázquez, Rizha Vitania, Luige Vlădăreanu, Victor Vlădăreanu, Ștefan Vlăduțescu, J. Vimala, Dan Valeriu Voinea, Adem Yolcu, Yongfei Feng, Abd El-Nasser H. Zaied, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas.

This special issue reflects the impact of neutrosophic theory in Latin America, especially after creating the Latin American Association of Neutrosophic Sciences. Among the areas of publication most addressed in the region are found in the interrelation of social sciences and neutrosophy, presenting outstanding results in these research areas. The main objective of this special issue is to divulge the impact publication related to the Neutrosophic theory and explore new areas of research and application in the region. The SI reflects the influence of the neutrosophic publications in Latin America by opening new research areas mainly related to Neutrosophic Statistics, Plithogeny, and NeutroAlgebra. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning the incorporation of authors from new countries in the region, such as Paraguay, Uruguay, and Panama, to have authors in total from 15 countries, 12 of them from the Latin American region.

“Neutrosophic Sets and Systems” has been created for publications on advanced studies in neutrosophy, neutrosophic set, neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic statistics that started in 1995 and their applications in any field, such as the neutrosophic structures developed in algebra, geometry, topology, etc. Neutrosophy is a new branch of philosophy that studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. This theory considers every notion or idea together with its opposite or negation and with their spectrum of neutralities in between them (i.e. notions or ideas supporting neither nor ). The and ideas together are referred to as . Neutrosophy is a generalization of Hegel's dialectics (the last one is based on and only). According to this theory every idea tends to be neutralized and balanced by and ideas - as a state of equilibrium. In a classical way , , are disjoint two by two. But, since in many cases the borders between notions are vague, imprecise, Sorites, it is possible that , , (and of course) have common parts two by two, or even all three of them as well. Neutrosophic Set and Neutrosophic Logic are generalizations of the fuzzy set and respectively fuzzy logic (especially of intuitionistic fuzzy set and respectively intuitionistic fuzzy logic).